178. Metastatic spine disease: should patients with short life expectancy be denied surgical care?BACKGROUND CONTEXT Despite our inability to accurately predict survival in cancer patients, a life expectancy of at least three months is historically considered necessary for patients to be considered for...
Newer hormonaldrugsthat decrease androgen production (abiraterone) and block androgen receptor signaling (enzalutamide) have been approved by the FDA for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer following chemotherapy, and they are being studied for early usage in the disease. Abiraterone Abiraterone is...
The goal of surgical treatment of metastatic spinal tumors is to maintain neurologic functioning without pain for the duration of the life expectancy. Of 2... S,Manabe,A,... - 《Spine》 被引量: 128发表: 1989年 Algorithms and Planning in Metastatic Spine Tumors Metastatic spine tumors cause ...
Acute liver failure secondary to metastatic melanoma is exceedingly rare with the literature limited to case reports. The disease itself presents with vagu
15.That was also the reason for his liver transplant: his liver was probably invaded by metastatic disease. 这也是乔布斯进行肝脏移植手术的原因:肿瘤转移到肝脏。 16.Vince Flynn says in a statement posted on his website that he was diagnosed with stage three metastatic prostate cancer in November...
Epigenome-wide DNA methylation profiling was performed in surgically resected primary tumor tissues from two cohorts of PCa patients with clinically localized disease who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) as primary therapy and were followed prospectively for at least 5 years: (1) a Fred Hutchinson...
A review was made of the records of our patients with carcinoma of the lung who received brain irradiation for metastatic disease during the period of July 1966 through February 1971. Fifteen patients underwent craniotomy prior to irradiation. Forty-seven patients had irradiation only. The survival ...
weeks. The best overall response was the best response recorded from the start of the treatment until disease progression. The duration of response was defined as the time from complete or partial response or s.d. until the first objective evidence of disease progression or death from any cause...
metastatic disease, must have adequate normal organ and marrow function, have an imaging investigation including CT/MRI of chest/abdomen/pelvis to document sites of disease within 28 days prior to randomization, must be able to complete quality of life questionnaires and must be accessible for ...
not more than one prior chemotherapy regimen for metastatic disease; no prior exposure to either taxanes or 5-FU administered as a continuous infusion; World Health Organization (WHO) performance status of 0, 1, or 2; life expectancy >12 weeks; not pregnant and using effective contraception if...