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Minimal clinically important differences in the EORTC QLQ-BN20 in patients with brain metastases
Quality of life (QOL) is an important treatment endpoint in advanced cancer patients with brain metastases. In clinical trials, statistically significant changes can be reached in a large enough population; ho...
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Intraethnic variation in steroid-5-alpha-reductase polymorphisms in prostate cancer patients: a potential factor implicated in 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor treatment
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Open AccessSingle nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA repair genes as risk factors associated to prostate cancer progression
Besides serum levels of PSA, there is a lack of prostate cancer specific biomarkers. It is need to develop new biological markers associated with the tumor behavior which would be valuable to better individual...
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International radiation oncology trainee decision making in the management of radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
This study explored international radiation oncology trainee decision making in the management of radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (RINV).
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Content validation of the EORTC QLQ-BN20+2 with patients and health care professionals to assess quality of life in brain metastases
The validated EORTC quality of life (QOL) questionnaire QLQ-BN20 is a cancer subtype-specific supplement to the QLQ-C30 general QOL questionnaire for patients with primary brain neoplasms. The QLQ-C15-PAL core...
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Prevention of acute radiation enteritis: efficacy and tolerance of glutamine
Our primary endpoint is to determine the effect of L-glutamine Resource (Nestlé Healthcare Nutrition) in the prevention of induced enteritis after pelvic radiotherapy (RT).
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Neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix
Neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix (SCC) is a rare disease that mixes clinical and biological characteristics of both cervical neoplasms and neuroendocrine small cell cancer. The prognos...
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Breast metastases from a floor of the mouth carcinoma
Metastases to the breast from extramammary tumours are uncommon and metastatis of floor of the mouth carcinoma to the breast is extremely rare. The clinical outcome of these patients remains dismal. We report ...
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Use of radiation treatment units in breast cancer. Changes in the last 15 years
Advances in diagnosis and treatment in oncology combined with technical advances in radiotherapy have resulted in qualitative and quantitative changes in the use of radiation to treat breast cancer.
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Local relapse after radiotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer patients
The study includes 99 patients with a locally advanced breast cancer. The mean age was 60.9±12.3 years, and 38.4% of the patients had a T3 tumors and the remaining patients T4 lesions. The most common histology w...