Anthropometric measures, body mass index, and pancreatic cancer: a pooled analysis from the Pancreatic Cancer Cohort Consortium (PanScan)

AA Arslan, KJ Helzlsouer, C Kooperberg… - Archives of internal …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Background Obesity has been proposed as a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Methods
Pooled data were analyzed from the National Cancer Institute Pancreatic Cancer Cohort …

Gene therapy for cancer treatment: past, present and future

D Cross, JK Burmester - Clinical medicine & research, 2006 - Marshfield Clinic
The broad field of gene therapy promises a number of innovative treatments that are likely to
become important in preventing deaths from cancer. In this review, we discuss the history …

Real-Time Prognosis for Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma Based on 2-[18F]Fluoro-2-Deoxy-d-Glucose-Positron Emission Tomography Scanning

RJ Robbins, Q Wan, RK Grewal… - The Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Context/Objective: Approximately 15% of thyroid cancer patients develop subsequent
metastases. The clinical course of patients with metastatic thyroid carcinoma is highly …

Racial disparities in cancer survival among randomized clinical trials patients of the Southwest Oncology Group

KS Albain, JM Unger, JJ Crowley… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background Racial disparities in cancer outcomes have been observed in several
malignancies. However, it is unclear if survival differences persist after adjusting for clinical …

Disparities in breast cancer treatment and outcomes: biological, social, and health system determinants and opportunities for research

SB Wheeler, KE Reeder‐Hayes, LA Carey - The oncologist, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Racial disparities in breast cancer mortality have been widely documented for several
decades and persist despite advances in receipt of mammography across racial groups …

Time to progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma from low-to-high tumour stages

J Yu, AL Blackford, M Dal Molin, CL Wolfgang… - Gut, 2015 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Although pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is considered a rapidly progressive
disease, mathematical models estimate that it takes many years for an initiating pancreatic …

Breast cancer survival defined by the ER/PR/HER2 subtypes and a surrogate classification according to tumor grade and immunohistochemical biomarkers

CA Parise, V Caggiano - Journal of cancer epidemiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction. ER, PR, and HER2 are routinely available in breast cancer specimens. The
purpose of this study is to contrast breast cancer‐specific survival for the eight ER/PR/HER2 …

Predicting anticancer peptides with Chou′ s pseudo amino acid composition and investigating their mutagenicity via Ames test

Z Hajisharifi, M Piryaiee, MM Beigi… - Journal of theoretical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer is an important reason of death worldwide. Traditional cytotoxic therapies, such as
radiation and chemotherapy, are expensive and cause severe side effects. Currently, design …

Cancer pain and its impact on diagnosis, survival and quality of life

PW Mantyh - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
Cancer pain significantly affects the diagnosis, quality of life and survival of patients with
cancer. During the past decade, preclinical and clinical data has begun to provide insight …

Curcumin analogue CDF inhibits pancreatic tumor growth by switching on suppressor microRNAs and attenuating EZH2 expression

B Bao, S Ali, S Banerjee, Z Wang, F Logna, AS Azmi… - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
The histone methyltransferase EZH2 is a central epigenetic regulator of cell survival,
proliferation, and cancer stem cell (CSC) function. EZH2 expression is increased in various …