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Feasibility, endocrine and anti-tumour effects of a triple endocrine therapy with tamoxifen, a somatostatin analogue and an antiprolactin in post-menopausal metastatic breast cancer: a randomized study with long-term follow-up
Suppression of the secretion of prolactin, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) might be important in the growth regulation and treatment of breast cancer. Because oestrogens may counteract ...
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Peripheral neuropathy induced by combination chemotherapy of docetaxel and cisplatin
Docetaxel, a new semisynthetic taxoid that has demonstrated promising activity as an antineoplastic agent, was administered in combination with cisplatin to 63 patients in a dose-escalating study. As both drug...
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Relationship of PS2 with response to tamoxifen therapy in patients with recurrent breast cancer
PS2, an oestrogen-inducible protein, was measured in the cytosol of 230 primary tumours from patients who were subjected to first-line tamoxifen therapy for advanced disease without prior adjuvant therapy with...
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Prognostic value of cytosolic tyrosine kinase activity in 249 node-positive breast cancer patients
Tyrosine-specific protein kinase (TPK) has been associated with the cytoplasmic domain of growth factor receptors as well as oncoproteins. Enzymatic activation appears to be a major initial event in these sign...
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Response to adjuvant chemotherapy in primary breast cancer: no correlation with expression of glutathione S-transferases
Of 139 node-positive breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy, the pre-treatment levels of glutathione S-transferase (GST) classes alpha, mu and pi, were determined by immuno-quantification on...
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Prognostic value of serum thymidine kinase, tissue polypeptide antigen and neuron specific enolase in patients with small cell lung cancer
In a group of seventy patients with small cell lung cancer the prognostic value of serum tumour markers was determined. Thymidine kinase (TK), tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) b...