Articles
A Focus on the Treatment of Anthracycline Extravasation and Tissue Protection
Anthracycline Extravasation For 40 years, the use of anthracycline anticancer drugs has been a mainstay in the curative and palliative treatment of...
A gastrointestinal stromal tumour presenting incidentally with haemorrhage and perforation associated with a Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report
IntroductionThis is the first reported case of perforation andhaemorrhage of a Meckel’s diverticulum leading to theincidental finding of a...
A Practical Clinical Approach to Adjuvant Therapy in Breast Cancer—An Update
Advances in gene expression and molecular profiling have clarified that breast cancer is not a single disease entity, but a heterogeneous disease...
A Primary Pancreatic Carcinoid Tumor with Unusual Clinical Complaints - A Case Report
In the recent revised classification of neuroendocrine tumors,6 the size of 2cm seems to be a crucial value over which carcinoid tumors start to...
A Synopsis of Cancer-related Anorexia and Weight Loss
The presence of this condition can be emotionally distressing to the patient and family. Although options do exist to stimulate appetite, prevent...
Absence of Annexin I Expression in B-cell Non-Hodgkin s Lymphomas and Cell Lines
Increased expression of intracellular annexin I is seen in bronchial epithelial cells grown in the presence of dexamethasone,9 and secreted annexin I...
Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation for Early-stage, Low-risk Breast Cancer
The reason that so few women choose BCT is largely due to the inconvenience of attending six to seven weeks of daily radiation treatments (RT). Often...
Adjuvant Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Bladder Cancer
Although the majority of worldwide bladder cancer patients presented with disease confined to the superficial layers of the bladder wall,...
Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer in Older Patients
Surgery is the primary treatment of choice in early-stage breast cancer for patients of all ages. Older patients who do not undergo surgical removal...
Advances in Chemotherapy Options for Head and Neck Cancer
Over the past 25 years, systemic chemotherapy has been intensively investigated in the management of squamous cell head and neck cancer. Although...
Advances in Image-guided Radiotherapy - The Future is in Motion
Historical Overview Different approaches toward IGRT have been followed over the years. In the 1990s, the first electronic portal imaging devices...
Advances in Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
For the past 10 years, many cytotoxic and targeted agents have been pitted against or combined with gemcitabine in randomized phase III trials and no...
Advances in Radiation Therapy
The advent of broader access to computed tomography (CT) and computing technology led to the first technological revolution in the 1980s. 3-D...
Advances in the Prognosis and Treatment of Medullary or Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
While ATC is characterised by an almost fatal outcome, with survival that rarely exceeds one year regardless of the available therapy,1 unselected...
Advances in the Prognosis and Treatment of Medullary or Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid cancer accounts for approximately only 1% of all reported malignancies, but is the most common endocrine malignancy.1 It is of either...
Advances in the Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer
Position Emission Tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the most exciting advances in the diagnosis of many cancers, including...
Advances in the Treatment of Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
Hormonal Therapy Androgen ablation has long been the mainstay of treatment of advanced prostate cancer; however, development of resistance to this...
Advances in the Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma Through Radiotherapy
However, more recently there has been a realisation that melanoma displays a wide variety of radiosensitivity and that in some patients large lesions...
Advances in the Treatment Options for Kidney Cancer— Is There an Optimal Regimen?
In 2008, primary kidney malignancies accounted for a predicted 4% of all cancer diagnoses in the US. There were an estimated 54,390 new diagnoses of...
Advances in Treatment Options for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
The aim of systemic treatment in any cancer is to cure the disease, prolong survival by three to four months or relieve symptoms more than...
