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Surgical Outcome and Long-Term Survival of Conversion Surgery for Advanced Gastric Cancer
The present study aims to report the surgical outcome and long-term survival of conversion surgery and clarify its role in advanced gastric cancer.
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Different Patterns in the Prognostic Value of Age for Breast Cancer-Specific Mortality Depending on Hormone Receptor Status: A SEER Population-Based Analysis
Few studies have been undertaken to evaluate the prognostic value of age at diagnosis for determining breast cancer survival in a large population.
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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-C Upregulates Cortactin and Promotes Metastasis of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) plays an important role during cancer progression and metastasis through activation of VEGF receptors. However, the role of VEGF-C in esophageal squamous cell carc...
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Minimally Invasive Selective Neck Dissection: A Prospective Study of Endoscopically Assisted Dissection via a Small Submandibular Approach in cT1–2N0 Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Selective neck dissection (SND) in clinical N0 (cN0) cases of oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has been performed by surgeons using a retroauricular or modified facelift approach with robotic or endoscopic assi...
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Prognostic Significance of cyclin D1, β-catenin, and MTA1 in Patients with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast
To investigate markers for predicting breast cancer progression, we performed a candidate gene-based study that assessed expression change of three genes, cyclin D1, β-catenin, and metastasis-as...
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Prognostic Value of a Positive-to-negative Change in Hormone Receptor Status after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with Hormone Receptor–positive Breast Cancer
To investigate the prognostic value of positive-to-negative changes in hormone receptor (HR) status after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) in patients with HR-positive breast cancer.
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The Predictive Effect of Cadherin-17 on Lymph Node Micrometastasis in pN0 Gastric Cancer
Previous studies identified cadherin-17 (CDH17) as one of the most upregulated genes in node-positive gastric cancer. However, the prognostic significance of CDH17 in pN0 gastric cancer and its association wit...
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Significance of Tumor Necrosis for Outcome of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Receiving Locoregional Therapy Prior to Liver Transplantation
Locoregional therapy has been advocated as an effective treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and the majority of patients with HCC receive locoregional therapy prior to live...
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Predicting Breast Cancer Recurrence Following Breast-Conserving Therapy: A Single-Institution Analysis Consisting of 764 Chinese Breast Cancer Cases
The purpose of this study was to identify prognostic factors related to recurrence in women treated with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) and to predict the recurrence following breast-conserving therapy (BCT) ...
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Different Distribution of Breast Cancer Subtypes in Breast Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS), DCIS with Microinvasion, and DCIS with Invasion Component
Breast ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion (DCIS-Mi) is considered to be the interim stage in the progression from DCIS to invasive breast cancer (IDC). Cases that exceed DCIS-Mi but still do not fulfi...
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Cardiac imaging and safety evaluation of BMS747158, a novel PET myocardial perfusion imaging agent, in chronic myocardial compromised rabbits
BMS747158 labeled with 18F is being developed for PET myocardial perfusion imaging. Imaging studies showed clear detection of necrotic tissue in acute myocardial infarcted (MI) animals and a good safety profile i...
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Risk Factors Associated with Conversion from Nonmalignant to Malignant Diagnosis After Surgical Excision of Breast Papillary Lesions
Management of papillary lesions of the breast identified during preoperative tissue diagnosis remains controversial. This study was designed to analyze the clinical factors associated with under-diagnosis of m...
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Effects of food intake and anesthetic on cardiac imaging and uptake of BMS747158-02 in comparison with FDG
BMS747158-02 is an 18F-labeled agent being developed for PET myocardial perfusion imaging. This study examined impacts of feeding state and anesthetic on cardiac imaging and uptake of this agent in rats in compar...
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Distributions of Angiogenesis and Lymphangiogenesis in Gastrointestinal Intramucosal Tumors
Although angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in gastrointestinal cancers has been investigated in many studies, their distribution characteristics in gastrointestinal intramucosal tumors have not been well addr...
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Preoperative Lymphoscintigraphy Predicts the Successful Identification but Is Not Necessary in Sentinel Lymph Nodes Biopsy in Breast Cancer
Although preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for breast cancer patients is undergone commonly, its clinical significance remains controversial.
