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A midpoint assessment of the American Cancer Society challenge goal to halve the U.S. cancer mortality rates between the years 1990 and 2015 See related editorial on pages 000-000, this issue.
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-07-15)
BACKGROUND. The American Cancer Society has challenged the U.S. to reduce cancer mortality rates 50% over the 25 years from 1990 to 2015. The current report is an analysis and commentary on progress toward that goal through ...
The Search for Occult Metastatic Disease in Breast Cancer Patients: How Far Should We Go?
(Springer-Verlag; The Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc., 2006-05)
Efficacy of sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-05-01)
Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is rapidly becoming the standard of care in the treatment of women with early stage breast cancer. Male breast cancer although relatively rare, has typically been treated with ...
An academic health center cost analysis of screening mammography
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-09-01)
BACKGROUND The current study sought to determine the institutional financial impact of a screening mammography (SM) program in the context of an integrated cancer center. METHODS Using administrative databases, 10,048 ...
Intratumoral IL-12 and TNF-α–Loaded Microspheres Lead To Regression of Breast Cancer and Systemic Antitumor Immunity
(Springer-Verlag; The Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc., 2004-01)
Background: Local, sustained delivery of cytokines at a tumor can enhance induction of antitumor immunity and may be a feasible neoadjuvant immunotherapy for breast cancer. We evaluated the ability of intratumoral ...
Thyroid Cancer: 1999 Update and Evaluation of Solitary Thyroid Nodules
(Springer-Verlag; The Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc., 2000-04)
Cytokines as an adjuvant to tumor vaccines: Efficacy of local methods of delivery
(Springer-Verlag; The Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc., 1997-10)
Background: We examined alternative methods of delivering cytokines as an adjunct for priming lymph node (LN) cells draining sites of vaccine inoculation for the purpose of generating immune cells for adoptive immunotherapy.
Is there a benefit to sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with T4 melanoma?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-12-15)
BACKGROUND: Controversy exists as to whether patients with thick (Breslow depth >4 mm), clinically lymph node-negative melanoma require sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy. The authors examined the impact of SLN biopsy on ...
Allogeneic and Autologous Melanoma Vaccines: Where have we been and where are we going?
(2006-04)
The past three decades have seen substantial research on vaccines for the treatment of metastatic melanoma and the prevention of recurrence following resection. Despite their enormous promise, the actual results have been ...