0. DOCID:9760 SCORE: 0.00408383522036682
DOCNO: 4016536
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Length of Stay
QUALIFIER: surgery
QUALIFIER: etiology
AUTHOR: G Tejler G
AUTHOR: K Aspegren K
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: The British journal of surgery.
COUNTRY: ENGLAND
TITLE: Complications and hospital stay after surgery for breast cancer: a prospective study of 385 patients.
PUBDATE: 19850701
General complications, wound complications and hospital stay after surgery for operable mammary carcinoma were studied prospectively in 385 patients treated by either modified radical mastectomy (324 operations) or segmental resection with axillary dissection (71 operations). The overall infection rate was 3.6 per cent. Postoperative seromas were noted in 34.8 per cent of the wounds. Other complications were few. The average hospital stay was 7.2 days. Seventeen per cent of the total number of days in hospital for these patients were due to factors other than the mammary cancer.

1. DOCID:14784 SCORE: 0.00386636671850409
DOCNO: 3674744
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: etiology
QUALIFIER: complications
QUALIFIER: complications
QUALIFIER: etiology
AUTHOR: G Roseau G
AUTHOR: J Leport J
AUTHOR: M Cerf M
AFFILIATION: Service d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie, Hôpital Louis-Mourier, Colombes.
PUBTYPE: Case Reports
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Annales de gastroentérologie et d'hépatologie.
COUNTRY: FRANCE
TITLE: [Malignant degeneration of Ménétrier disease]
PUBDATE: 19871001
Gastric cancer was found in a patient in whom Menetrier's disease had been diagnosed 18 months before. In Menetrier's disease, incidence of cancer is as high as 14% of cases. But in only 5 cases of literature including the present one, has the time sequence been clearly documented. Metachronous tumours may be found 1 to 5 years after giant hypertrophic gastritis has been diagnozed. Such data make medical management, including anti-secretory drugs and periodic endoscopic survey, hazardous. We suggest that in documented Menetrier's disease elective total gastrectomy should still be considered as a treatment of choice.

2. DOCID:15437 SCORE: 0.0038545810302224
DOCNO: 3631869
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Sigmoidoscopy
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
AUTHOR: K D Vellacott KD
AUTHOR: A M Roe AM
AUTHOR: N J Mortensen NJ
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
COUNTRY: ENGLAND
TITLE: An evaluation of a direct access flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy service.
PUBDATE: 19870701
During a 3 year period 146 general practitioners referred 630 patients to a direct access flexible sigmoidoscopy clinic. The yield was 53.3% with significant colonic or rectal pathology in 30%. Twenty six cancers, 4 Dukes' A, and 38 patients with symptomatic adenomatous polyps were detected. Five further cancers were detected by subsequent barium enemas. The service reduced delay in diagnosing colorectal pathology but did not reduce the number of barium enemas requested by general practitioners. It is suggested that where facilities are already available, such a service to investigate rectal bleeding in patients over 40 years is of benefit both to patients and general practitioners.

3. DOCID:11520 SCORE: 0.00373322660321165
DOCNO: 4057568
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: secondary
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: secondary
AUTHOR: Y Yoshizumi Y
AUTHOR: S Sima S
AUTHOR: Y Sugiura Y
AUTHOR: H Yonekawa H
AUTHOR: T Ogata T
PUBTYPE: Case Reports
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Gan no rinsho. Japan journal of cancer clinics.
COUNTRY: JAPAN
TITLE: [A case of superficial esophageal cancer with metastasis to the gastric wall]
PUBDATE: 19850801
A 65-year-old man with superficial esophageal cancer associated with gastric wall metastasis is presented. He had suffered from epigastralgia and dysphagia for two months. X-Ray and endoscopic examination revealed esophageal erosion at the right wall of the lower esophagus and a large gastric submucosal tumor at the lesser curvature of the upper and middle stomach. Resection of the lower esophagus and total gastrectomy were performed. Histologically, the erosion of the lower esophagus was moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma invading as deep as the submucosal tissue and the tumor of the stomach was metastasis of the esophageal cancer. Intramural metastasis of esophageal cancer was discussed.

4. DOCID:11519 SCORE: 0.00366706034596254
DOCNO: 3877822
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: therapeutic use
QUALIFIER: therapeutic use
QUALIFIER: therapeutic use
QUALIFIER: immunology
AUTHOR: H Sekizuka H
AUTHOR: K Noro K
AUTHOR: S Haruyama S
AUTHOR: Y Kiribuchi Y
AUTHOR: F Hayashi F
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Gan no rinsho. Japan journal of cancer clinics.
COUNTRY: JAPAN
TITLE: [Postoperative cell-mediated immunity in gastric cancer patients--with special reference to the effects of immunotherapy]
PUBDATE: 19850901
The cell-mediated immunity of gastric cancer subjects was investigated during the postoperative follow-up period from three to 12 months after surgery. The lymphocyte blastogenesis, the T cell count, the lymphocyte count and the lymphocyte percentage were significantly decreased in groups of experimental laparotomy and noncurative gastrectomy, compared with that of nonrecurrent cases after curative gastrectomy. The effects of the administration of immunopotentiators, the streptococcal preparation OK-432, and the protein-bound polysaccharide PSK, were studied in groups of curative gastrectomy. The lymphocyte blastogenesis, the T cell count and the lymphocyte count were slightly elevated in the OK-432 group.

5. DOCID:15963 SCORE: 0.00352421971379508
DOCNO: 3165753
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: complications
QUALIFIER: surgery
AUTHOR: D Mellström D
AUTHOR: T Osterberg T
AFFILIATION: Department of Geriatric and Long-Term Care Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology.
COUNTRY: DENMARK
TITLE: Oral cancer after surgery for peptic ulcer.
PUBDATE: 19880801
Oral cancer was studied in a population of 3435 which constituted all persons who were operated upon because of peptic ulcer in Gothenburg 1952-61. This population formed a data base which was coordinated with the National Cancer Register and the Register of Causes of Deaths in Sweden. The expected number of oral cancers was 7.7 and the observed number was 17 (P less than 0.01). In gerontologic population studies of the elderly in Gothenburg it was shown that 70-yr-old men with a history of peptic ulcer surgery more often were tobacco smokers, edentulous and more often had sideropenic and megaloblastic anemia and also had a lower bone mineral content.

6. DOCID:11905 SCORE: 0.00345784927427589
DOCNO: 6717048
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: methods
QUALIFIER: methods
QUALIFIER: radiotherapy
QUALIFIER: radiotherapy
QUALIFIER: radiotherapy
AUTHOR: S M Rooney SM
AUTHOR: P L Goldiner PL
AUTHOR: M S Bains MS
AUTHOR: B Hilaris B
AUTHOR: S Jain S
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Anesthesia for the application of endotracheal and endobronchial radiation therapy.
PUBDATE: 19840501
High-activity remote afterloading was recently adapted at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for the treatment of carcinoma of the lung recurrent to the major airways. An anesthesia approach is presented which aids in the performance of this beneficial procedure. The remote afterloader is a device containing a high-intensity radioactive source which is applied intraluminally to control both endobronchial and endotracheal tumors. The patient is intubated with an endobronchial or endotracheal tube which facilitates passage and measurement of the Gamma Med catheter. The potential usage for airway maintenance is a secondary benefit. After bronchoscopic placement is verified radiographically, computerized treatment is initiated. The several advantages of this technique are presented.

7. DOCID:15489 SCORE: 0.00338232319055392
DOCNO: 2780109
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: etiology
QUALIFIER: analysis
QUALIFIER: complications
QUALIFIER: analysis
AUTHOR: J Romette J
AUTHOR: J di Costanzo-Dufetel J
AFFILIATION: Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Pathologie-biologie.
COUNTRY: FRANCE
TITLE: [Biochemical markers of the tumor origin of ascites]
PUBDATE: 19890601
In order to determine the best biochemical tests to detect cancer as the cause of ascites formation, ascitic fluid level of fibronectin, cholesterol, phospholipids and triglycerides were compared for 73 patients. The median values and the cut-off concentrations of these parameters were determined on 53 ascitic fluids without malignant cytology and 20 ascitic fluids characterized by a malignant cytology. The results showed that ascitic fluid fibronectin and cholesterol levels had a higher discriminating value than phospholipids and triglycerides to separate ascites caused by neoplasms. Cholesterol and fibronectin gave the same sensitivity and negative predictive value but cholesterol showed the highest specificity and positive predictive value.

8. DOCID:11668 SCORE: 0.00337953981609116
DOCNO: 3884132
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: analysis
QUALIFIER: analysis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
AUTHOR: M Stefanini M
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Cancer.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Enzymes, isozymes, and enzyme variants in the diagnosis of cancer. A short review.
PUBDATE: 19850501
Changes of enzyme activity in tissues, body fluids, and serum as well as changes of isozymes and enzyme variants in patients with malignancy suggest that these parameters may be used in the diagnosis of some types of cancer. A review of available information indicates that: changes of serum enzymes in patients with malignancies relate to the presence of a heavy tumor burden or of metastases, and cannot be utilized for the early diagnosis of malignancies; changes in isozyme patterns and newly developed enzyme variants may be of greater diagnostic value, although possibly not in the early diagnosis of cancer; study of enzymatic activity in body fluid may offer valuable help in specific situations; and occasionally, determination of enzymes may be of help in establishing susceptibility to malignancies.

9. DOCID:10697 SCORE: 0.00337202702580755
DOCNO: 6617281
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: secondary
AUTHOR: J R Jett JR
AUTHOR: C G Hollinger CG
AUTHOR: A R Zinsmeister AR
AUTHOR: P C Pairolero PC
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Chest.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Pulmonary resection of metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
PUBDATE: 19831001
Over a ten-year period, 44 patients with known primary renal cell cancer underwent thoracotomy for pulmonary metastases. The median postthoracotomy survival for all patients was 33 months. The five-year survival was 27 percent. Postthoracotomy survival was significantly better in those patients with a disease free interval of greater than 24 months and patients with metastatic lesions greater than or equal to 3 cm. No difference in survival was detected in patients with one versus more than one lesion or in patients undergoing complete resection versus incomplete resection or biopsy only. Age, sex, grade of tumor, or location of the pulmonary metastasis had no influence on survival.

10. DOCID:8567 SCORE: 0.00324697551332688
DOCNO: 6431861
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: surgery
QUALIFIER: surgery
QUALIFIER: surgery
AUTHOR: A L Watne AL
AUTHOR: J B Boyd JB
AUTHOR: B Bradford B
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: The American surgeon.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: The elderly patient and colon surgery for cancer or diverticular disease.
PUBDATE: 19840801
The mortality and morbidity for 246 patients over the age of 50 who underwent colon resection for cancer or diverticular disease during a 5-year period were reviewed. The increased risk for patients over 70 years of age was based on the presence of two or more preoperative diseases, the occurrence of emergency surgery and the occurrence of postoperative complications, especially surgical infection.

11. DOCID:12885 SCORE: 0.0031372896776872
DOCNO: 3284633
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: therapy
AUTHOR: H D Suit HD
AFFILIATION: Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiation Medicine, Boston, MA.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Cancer.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: The scope of the problem of primary tumor control.
PUBDATE: 19880601
The purposes of this article are (1) to point out several aspects of the magnitude and importance of the overall cancer problem, (2) to emphasize that the treatment of the primary lesion is far from being uniformly successful, and (3) to consider one component of a strategy to help assure an effective level of support for research at the laboratory and clinical level to promote improvement in the efficacy of primary treatment modalities.

12. DOCID:11290 SCORE: 0.00304276809528395
DOCNO: 6362820
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: chemically induced
QUALIFIER: etiology
QUALIFIER: adverse effects
QUALIFIER: adverse effects
QUALIFIER: physiology
QUALIFIER: physiology
AUTHOR: D B Thomas DB
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Cancer.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Do hormones cause breast cancer?
PUBDATE: 19840201
The evidence that various endogenous and exogenous sex hormones play a role in the etiology of breast cancer is reviewed. It is hypothesized that prolonged exposure to normal levels of ovarian estrogens and cyclic progesterone resulting from early menarche and late menopause, and primarily willful nulliparity and late childbearing, act at an early stage in the development of breast cancer by promoting excessive proliferation of normal epithelial stem cells. Excess endogenous or exogenous estrogens can enhance risk by stimulating proliferation of epithelial cells that have undergone partial malignant transformation. The breast, however, is much less responsive to the tumor-promoting effects of estrogens than the endometrium, and estrogens probably play a less important role in the later stages of mammary than endometrial carcinogenesis.

13. DOCID:10446 SCORE: 0.00298394186726285
DOCNO: 7081828
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
AUTHOR: H A Perry HA
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: The American surgeon.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Solid thyroid nodules.
PUBDATE: 19820401
The management of solitary thyroid nodules remains controversial, A series of 120 patients having operation for a solitary thyroid nodule is retrospectively reviewed. Neoplasia rate was found to be 29.1 per cent and the malignancy rate, 11.7 percent. These are compared with other studies emphasizing the use of thyroid imaging with radioactive substances or ultrasonography and invasive techniques such as fine needle aspiration where the yields of neoplasia and malignancy are, respectively 18-65 per cent and 8-29 per cent. Current techniques allow identification of solitary nonfunctioning and solid nodules, and operation for these should increase the yield of cancer while reserving thyroid suppression and possibly fine needle aspiration for the management of other lesions.

14. DOCID:13330 SCORE: 0.00284685643542765
DOCNO: 3061580
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Renal Dialysis
QUALIFIER: adverse effects
QUALIFIER: chemically induced
QUALIFIER: drug therapy
AUTHOR: C D Flombaum CD
AFFILIATION: Clinical Physiology-Renal Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Critical care clinics.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Acute renal failure and dialysis in cancer patients.
PUBDATE: 19880101
Acute renal failure continues to be a common occurrence in critically ill cancer patients. It frequently results from a combination of risk factors, which include the following: hemodynamic alterations associated with renal ischemia; exposure to nephrotoxic drugs; urinary tract obstruction; and specific abnormalities related to cancer itself. Recent advances in the techniques of hemodialysis, nutritional support, and the recent introduction of continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration have improved the care of these patients.