Local drug delivery strategies for cancer treatment: gels, nanoparticles, polymeric films, rods, and wafers

JB Wolinsky, YL Colson, MW Grinstaff - Journal of controlled release, 2012 - Elsevier
Polymer-based drug delivery depots have been investigated over the last several decades
as a means to improve upon the lack of tumor targeting and severe systemic morbidities …

AACR centennial series: the biology of cancer metastasis: historical perspective

JE Talmadge, IJ Fidler - Cancer research, 2010 - AACR
Metastasis resistant to therapy is the major cause of death from cancer. Despite almost 200
years of study, the process of tumor metastasis remains controversial. Stephen Paget initially …

Adaptive therapy

RA Gatenby, AS Silva, RJ Gillies, BR Frieden - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
A number of successful systemic therapies are available for treatment of disseminated
cancers. However, tumor response is often transient, and therapy frequently fails due to …

Timing and delays in breast cancer evaluation and treatment

RJ Bleicher - Annals of surgical oncology, 2018 - Springer
Background Even small delays in the treatment of breast cancer are a frequently expressed
concern of patients. Knowledge about this subject is important for clinicians to counsel …

The relevance of tumour pH to the treatment of malignant disease

JL Wike-Hooley, J Haveman, HS Reinhold - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 1984 - Elsevier
Interest in tumour pH stems from the early part of this century, when the pioneering work of
Otto Warburg first suggested that aerobic glycolysis was a characteristic property of …

Hepatocellular carcinoma demonstrates heterogeneous growth patterns in a multicenter cohort of patients with cirrhosis

NE Rich, BV John, ND Parikh, I Rowe, N Mehta… - Hepatology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions In a large Western cohort of patients with HCC, we found heterogeneous tumor
growth patterns, with one‐fourth exhibiting rapid growth and over one‐third having indolent …

Phenotype, cancer risk, and surveillance in Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome depending on molecular genetic subgroups

SM Maas, F Vansenne, DJM Kadouch… - American journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) have an increased risk to develop
cancer in childhood, especially Wilms tumor and hepatoblastoma. The risk varies depending …

The relationship between waiting time for radiotherapy and clinical outcomes: a systematic review of the literature

Z Chen, W King, R Pearcey, M Kerba… - Radiotherapy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To synthesize the direct clinical evidence relating waiting times (WTs) for
radiotherapy (RT) to the outcomes of RT. METHODS AND MATERIALS: We did a systematic …

On the growth rates of human malignant tumors: implications for medical decision making

S Friberg, S Mattson - Journal of surgical oncology, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Testicular carcinomas, pediatric tumors, and some mesenchymal tumors are examples of
rapidly proliferating cell populations, for which the tumor volume doubling time (TVDT) can …

[PDF][PDF] Natural history of small untreated hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhosis: a multivariate analysis of prognostic factors of tumor growth rate and patient survival

L Barbara, G Benzi, S Gaiani, F Fusconi, G Zironi… - …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed the growth pattern of tumor masses and the survival of 39 asymptomatic Italian
patients with a total of 59 small (⩽ 5 cm in diameter) hepatocellular carcinomas arising from …