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Pharyngoesophageal Reconstruction
With the advent of effective organ preservation treatment strategies for malignancies of the larynx and hypopharynx, total laryngectomy and pharyngectomy procedures are now performed primarily for patients wit...
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Regulation of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases by miRNA: Overexpression of miRNA Using Lentiviral Inducible Expression Vectors
MicroRNAs have the ability to alter and regulate multiple genes, including RTK family members, making them an attractive approach for molecular therapeutic development. We use a pCDNA6.2-EmGFP-microRNA express...
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Granular Cell Tumor of the Cervical Esophagus: Case Report and Literature Review of an Unusual Cause of Dysphagia
Granular cell tumors (GCT) of the head and neck are not uncommon; however, involvement of the cervical esophagus is rare. Characterized by an infiltrative growth pattern, these benign tumors are historically d...
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Open AccessPercutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy site metastasis from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: case series and literature review
To present our experience with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) seeding of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) sites and to review all reported cases to identify risk factors and develop str...
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Open AccessCorrelation of microarray-based breast cancer molecular subtypes and clinical outcomes: implications for treatment optimization
Optimizing treatment through microarray-based molecular subty** is a promising method to address the problem of heterogeneity in breast cancer; however, current application is restricted to prediction of dis...
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Unique features of breast cancer in Taiwan
Between April 1990 and December 1997, 811 consecutive patients with 830 newly diagnosed breast cancers having their primary treatments in our institution were included in this study. Sixty three percent of bre...
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Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: 1990
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignancy of considerable interest and importance, not only because of its major impact on specific populations, such as Cantonese Chinese and North Africans, but also beca...
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Management of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is rare in most countries (incidence rate of less than 1 per 100,000) but is a major health problem in some regions (incidence rate as high as 5.8 per 100,000 with a mortality rate of ...
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Chemotherapy of melanoma
Melanoma is traditionally managed by surgery. High potential for distant recurrence in disease with invasion of deeper levels of skin have forced the oncologist to look for other effective means of controlling...
