منابع مشابه
Do thymic malignancies respond to target therapies?
A best evidence topic in cardiothoracic surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was 'Do thymic malignancies respond to target therapies?' Altogether, 347 papers were found using the reported search, of which, in our opinion, 16 papers represented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. The authors, journal, date and country of publication, patie...
متن کاملPrognostic grading after complete resection for thymic malignancies.
OBJECTIVE Despite the World Health Organization (WHO) and Masaoka classifications have been widely accepted as the main describers of prognosis determinants in thymic malignancies, so far, these have been considered independently from one another. We have reviewed our single-centre 40-year results after surgical treatment of thymic malignancies evaluating the inter-relationships between the cli...
متن کاملMALIGNANCIES OF THE THYMUS Radiotherapy for Thymic Neoplasms
The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of thymoma and thymic carcinoma has been evaluated by many investigators over the past two decades. The low incidence of these neoplasms has limited most published studies to small series spanning long time intervals or population-based studies. The exact indications and protocols for the use of radiotherapy as a part of the multidisciplinary approach t...
متن کاملPemetrexed in patients with thymic malignancies previously treated with chemotherapy.
PURPOSE Thymic malignancies are rare, with limited published trials of chemotherapy activity. We performed a retrospective analysis of pemetrexed activity in patients with thymic malignancies. METHODS Patients with unresectable histologically confirmed invasive, recurrent, or metastatic thymoma or thymic carcinoma seen at the Stanford Cancer Center between January 2005 and November 2013 were ...
متن کاملImpact of VEGF, VEGFR, PDGFR, HIF and ERCC1 gene polymorphisms on thymic malignancies outcome after thymectomy
We aimed to analyze genotypes of VEGF-A, VEGFR2, Flt4, PDGFRα, HIF-1α and ERCC1 and their correlation with thymic tumor risk and patient outcome. DNA of 57 consecutive patients (43 thymomas and 14 thymic carcinomas) who underwent total thymectomy at our Institution was extracted from paraffin-embedded tissue. We selected polymorphisms in the following genes:HIF1-α (rs2057482T > C, rs1951795A > ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1540-1405,1540-1413
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2010.0096