UNLABELLED Adjuvant systemic therapy reduces the likelihood of both local and distant relapses by eradicating micrometastases. AIM To survey the adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer. METHODS Author presents an overview of the systemic therapy of early breast cancer based on relevant literature and own experiences. RESULTS Three systemic treatment modalities are widely used as adjuvan...

BACKGROUND Postmastectomy adjuvant therapy is used to prevent locoregional recurrence and improve overall breast cancer specific survival rates. However, it can adversely affect the cosmetic results of reconstruction. Therefore, the authors examined flap stability and patients' satisfaction with immediate breast reconstruction after adjuvant therapy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the me...

Purpose The panel updated the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) adjuvant therapy guideline for resected non-small-cell lung cancers. Methods ASCO convened an update panel and conducted a systematic review of the literature, investigating adjuvant therapy in resected non-small-cell lung cancers. Results The updated evidence base covered questions related to adjuvant systemic therapy a...

AIMS To describe the outcome of patients with non-metastatic unilateral retinoblastoma with high risk histopathological features after primary enucleation, and to clarify the need and results of adjuvant therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 1980 to 2001 adjuvant therapy was recommended only to patients with scleral involvement, post-laminar optic nerve involvement (PLONI) with either a positive...

With an incidence that is increasing at 2-5% per year, cutaneous melanoma is an international scourge that disproportionately targets young individuals. Despite much research, the treatment of advanced disease is still quite challenging. Immunotherapy with high-dose interferon-α2b or interleukin-2 benefits a select group of patients in the adjuvant and metastatic settings, respectively, with si...

Over the past 10 years more than 10,000 papers and in vitro investigations have been published that identify or analyse various critical pathways and biological processes through which the phytoalexin resveratrol has been shown to attenuate the metabolic dysfunctions, acute symptomatology and the consequential downstream pathologies related to type 2 diabetes. More recently, several clinical tr...

Oral cancer is a major public health problem worldwide and is among the ten most common cancers. Despite the advances in research and treatment, oral cancer is still one of the major challenges in medical science. Common treatments for this cancer include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, as well as adjuvant photodynamic therapy (PDT). The aim of this study was to evaluate oral cancer an...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers and has a global survival rate of less than 5% at 5 years. Surgical resection remains the only curative measure but provides a median survival of only 12-15 months, due to the very high rates of both local recurrence and distant metastases1-3. On the basis of this natural history, multiple adjuvant and more recently neoadjuvant therapies have ...

Although adjuvant therapy has become the standard of care worldwide for resectable localized gastric cancer, geographic differences exist in standard adjuvant treatments: postoperative chemoradiation in North America, perioperative chemotherapy in Europe, and postoperative chemotherapy in East Asia. Global differences in standard surgical methods or study populations may influence the discrepan...