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Showing posts with label prognosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prognosis. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2012

paywalled: Limited prognostic value of tissue protein expression levels of cyclin E in Danish ovarian cancer patients: from the Danish ‘MALOVA’ ovarian cancer study

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Limited prognostic value of tissue protein expression levels of cyclin E in Danish ovarian cancer patients: from the Danish ‘MALOVA’ ovarian...
Friday, March 09, 2012

pdf: Summaries for Patients - Surrogate Decision Makers’ Interpretation of Prognostic Information

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Surrogate Decision Makers’ Interpretation of Prognostic Information What are the implications of the study? Inaccurate interpretations o...

Weighing the Chances at Life's End - NYTimes.com

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Weighing the Chances at Life's End - NYTimes.com "........But the grimmer the prognosis, the more inaccurate and more optimisti...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Clinical Oncology News (ethics) - Would You Be ‘Surprised’: "The Surprise Question" (prognosis)

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The Surprise Question "We turn to the problem of uncertainty and its impact on providing information. Recently, investigators have...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Biomedcentral: open access - Biomarker robustness reveals the PDGF network as driving disease outcome in ovarian cancer patients in multiple studies

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link:    ABSTRACT and open text PDF Background : Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other gynecological cancer. Identifying the ...
Monday, June 13, 2011

abstract : Circulating tumor cells predict progression free survival and overall survival in patients with relapsed/recurrent advanced ovarian cancer - multinational trial

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Objective Serial circulating tumor cell (CTC) counts have demonstrated predictive and prognostic value in patients with metastatic bre...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Nuclear P27 (gene) expression in benign, borderline (LMP) and invasive tumors of the ovary and its association with prognosis: A GOG group study

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Abstract Objective Nuclear p27 expression was examined in non-invasive and invasive ovarian tumors from a cross-sectional study, and c...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Breast cancer classification algorithm to identify 20 gene signature developed using Microsoft Excel

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"....The 10 most highly ranked genes predictive of poor prognosis and those 10 genes most highly predictive of good prognosis establish...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Upstaging pathologic stage I ovarian carcinoma based on dense adhesions is not warranted: A clinicopathologic study of 84 patients originally originally classified as FIGO stage II

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Note: very interesting study, albeit abstract   Abstract BACKGROUND:  FIGO stage II ovarian cancer comprises 8% of ovarian cancers....
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Germline Genetic Variation, Cancer Outcome, and Pharmacogenetics -- abstract (references Lynch/BRCAs)

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ABSTRACT Studies of the role of germline or inherited genetic variation on cancer outcome can fall into three distinct categories. First ,...

Weight, Physical Activity, Diet, and Prognosis in Breast and Gynecologic Cancers JCO (abstract)

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ABSTRACT Diet, physical activity, and weight may affect prognosis among women who are diagnosed with breast or gynecologic cancer. Observa...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Understanding Prognosis and Cancer Statistics - National Cancer Institute

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"Because survival rates are based on large groups of people, they cannot be used to predict what will happen to a particular patient. N...

Weight, Physical Activity, Diet, and Prognosis in Breast and Gynecologic Cancers --JCO (abstract)

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ABSTRACT Diet, physical activity, and weight may affect prognosis among women who are diagnosed with breast or gynecologic cancer. Observat...
Friday, June 25, 2010

The National Cancer Database report on advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer: Impact of hospital surgical case volume on overall survival and surgical treatment paradigm

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Abstract OBJECTIVE : To examine the effect of hospital procedure volume and other prognostic variables on overall survival outcome and l...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Associations between age and quality of life in advanced ovarian cancer

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Background: .... . Few studies have examined whether age influences advanced ovarian cancer patients' prognostic understanding or...
Friday, June 04, 2010

'The worst thing about hospice is that they talk about death': contrasting hospice decisions and experience among immigrant Central and South American Latinos with US-born White, non-Latino cancer caregivers

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Abstract: Hospice care is promoted as a model for improving end of life care and decreasing burden on caregivers. However, hospice use is l...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Giving Honest Information to Patients With Advanced Cancer Maintains Hope - Cancer Network

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" Background : Oncologists often do not give honest prognostic and treatment-effect information to patients with advanced disease. One ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

from the series The Art of Oncology: "Certain Death in Uncertain Time: Informing Hope by Quantifying a Best Case Scenario"

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Note: Stephen Gould's writings were extraordinarily popular died in 2002) "Research informs us that the majority of patients wit...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Follow-Up Study of the Correlation Between Postoperative Com... : International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

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Follow-Up Study of the Correlation Between Postoperative Computed Tomographic Scan and Primary Surgeon Assessment in Patients With Advanced ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010

Serum tetranectin is a significant prognostic marker in ovarian cancer patients.

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Conclusion. Preoperative serum TN is a useful prognostic indicator of advanced stage for patients with OvCa.