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Epidermal growth factor receptor in human breast cancers: Correlation with estrogen and progesterone receptors
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), determined by the Scatchard curve method, was found in 22 cases of a random series of 100 patients with breast carcinoma. Two groups of patients were identified, one (n...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Risk Factors of Pulmonary Complications Following Esophagectomy in Carcinoma of the Esophagus: Results of the Prospective Study Conducted by the OESO Group
Surgical resection of cancer of the esophagus is associated with a high complication rate: mainly leakage of the anastomotic site and pulmonary complications. Mortality following postoperative pulmonary compli...
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Chapter
IgA/EA: Prognosis Marker for Relapse among NPC Patients with Complete Remission after Radiotherapy
A longitudinal multicenter study on nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) was initiated in 1979, with the aim of evaluating the EBV antibody response at various postradiotherapy follow-ups for predicting the long-ter...
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Chapter
HLA -A, -B and -DR Antigens in North African Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
An increased risk for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has been reported by Simons in 1976 for Chinese individuals simultaneously expressing HLA-A2 and B-Sin-2 (Bw46) antigens.
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Skin Tumours
We have classified the cutaneous tumours that occur in children as follows:
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Chapter
Inflammatory Tumors of the Human Breast: Determination of Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors
The clinically inflammatory tumors are considered to be very severe carcinomas characterized by a particularly low rate of survival at 5 years [6, 14]. In the present study, we have simultaneously determined e...
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Follow-Up Results from a Randomized Trial for T3 and T4 Breast Cancer Patients: Previous BCG Immunotherapy Improves Response to Chemotherapy in the Relapse Patient
Following locoregional treatment, patients were randomized into three groups: The first group received no complementary treatment; the second group received adjuvant chemotherapy (vincristine, cyclophosphamide...
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Oestrogen and progesterone cytosolic receptors in clinically inflammatory tumours of the human breast
Oestrogen (RE) and progesterone (RP) cytosolic receptors have been studied in 59 clinically inflammatory tumours of the human breast. The results were compared to those obtained in a series of 496 operable tum...
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Chapter
First Results of a Randomized Trial on Immunotherapy of Head and Neck Tumors
Trials of active nonspecific immunotherapy as adjuvant therapy for tumors have increased dramatically in number since the results that have been published on acute leukemia [6] and melanoma [3, 5, 7–9]. In spi...
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Results of a Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Chemotherapy in T3-T4 Breast Cancer Patients Previously Treated by Radiotherapy
The goal of this study was to evaluate results obtained with complementary chemotherapy administered to women with locally evolved breast cancer compared with those obtained in patients receiving simple immuno...
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EORTC/GTO Adjuvant Chemotherapy Program for Primary Ewing’s Sarcoma: Results at 5 Years
Ewing’s sarcoma is classically linked with a very poor prognosis after a local surgical treatment and/or radiotherapy: 5-year survival is less than 15% [1]. The recent progress made in chemotherapy had led to ...
