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Prostate carcinoma presentation, diagnosis, and staging
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-09-15)
BACKGROUND Based on the 1998 Patient Care Evaluation (PCE) from the American College of Surgeons National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), the authors described contemporary nationwide patterns of prostate carcinoma presentation, ...
Artificial neural networks for prostate carcinoma risk assessment
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-04-15)
No abstract.
Antiandrogen withdrawal in castrate-refractory prostate cancer
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-06-01)
BACKGROUND. Antiandrogen withdrawal is a potential therapeutic maneuver for patients with progressive prostate cancer. This study was designed to examine antiandrogen withdrawal effects within the context of a large ...
Risk perception and concern among brothers of men with prostate carcinoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-04-01)
BACKGROUND It is important for clinicians, researchers, and others who shape public health policy to understand the demographic correlates and psychologic factors that drive health behaviors, such as screening for early ...
Quality of pathologic response and surgery correlate with survival for patients with completely resected bladder cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-09-15)
BACKGROUND: In a retrospective study of Southwestern Oncology Group (SWOG)-S8710/INT-0080 (radical cystectomy [RC] alone vs 3 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy [NC] with methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin ...
Hormone Resistance in Prostate Cancer
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-12)
The regulation of prostate cancer cell adhesion to human bone marrow endothelial cell monolayers by androgen dihydrotestosterone and cytokines
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-01)
A previous study from our laboratory suggested that prostate cancer metastasis to bone may be mediated, in part, by preferential adhesion to human bone marrow endothelial (HBME) cells. Tumor cell adhesion to endothelial ...
Monoclonal antibody (5G6.4) against ovarian carcinoma shows inhibition of in vitro colony formation
(Elsevier, 1987-07)
Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have the potential for diagnosis and therapy of cancer. 5G6.4 is a MAb of the IgG2a class which was produced by immunization of BALB/c mice with human ovarian carcinoma (Ov Ca) cells. To further ...
Course of distress and quality of life in testicular cancer patients before, during, and after chemotherapy: Results of a pilot study
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2003-12)
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in white males between the ages of 15 and 45 years. Treatment may include the administration of chemotherapy which has been associated with changes in emotional distress, quality ...
Use of quality indicators to evaluate the care of patients with localized prostate carcinoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-03-15)
BACKGROUND The goal of quality assurance in health care is to preserve and improve patient care. Recently, RAND developed a set of evidence-based candidate indicators for evaluating the quality of care for patients with ...