Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer recurrence and death. Some readily available biomarkers associated with systemic inflammation have been receiving attention as potential prognostic indicators in cancer, including neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymp...
Introdução: A hepatite C está associada ao desenvolvimento do carcinoma hepatocelular (CHC). O regime terapêutico baseado em interferon vem sendo substituído pelos antivirais de ação direta (AAD) para tratamento da infecção pelo vírus da hepatite C (HCV). Contudo, estudos recen...
Introdução: A hepatite C está associada ao desenvolvimento do carcinoma hepatocelular (CHC). O regime terapêutico baseado em interferon vem sendo substituído pelos antivirais de ação direta (AAD) para tratamento da infecção pelo vírus da hepatite C (HCV). Contudo, estudos recen...
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the results of radiotherapy (RT) for follicular lymphoma (FL) under different management scenarios. METHODS We retrospectively assessed consecutive patients with FL who had undergone irradiation between 2010 and 2018. All patients had biopsy-proven FL and were positron emission to...
OBJECTIVES: Extracellular vesicle microRNAs (EV-miRNAs) have been demonstrated to be reliable candidate biomarkers for clinical applications. However, the clinical application potential of serum EV-miR-215-5p for gastric cancer (GC) remains poorly understood. The goal of our study was to determine the ef...
Introducción: El manejo inicial del cáncer diferenciado de tiroides (CDT) usualmente comprende la cirugía que puede acompañarse según el riesgo de recurrencia de la administración del yodo radioactivo (I-131); sin embargo, existe un pequeño grupo de pacientes que ...
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the impact of obesity on perioperative outcomes and urethral stricture recurrence after anterior urethroplasty. Material and Methods We reviewed our prospectively maintained single-surgeon database to identify men with anterior urethral strictures who had undergone anast...
Abstract Introduction: Three-weekly cisplatin dose is accepted for standard treatment for concurrent chemo-radiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. However, different chemotherapy schedules are presented in the literature. Objective: We intend to compare toxicity and outcomes of high dose 3-weekly cis...
Abstract Introduction: Total rhinectomy is an uncommon procedure for the treatment of nasal malignancies, usually reserved for locally advanced tumors. There are few case series studying total rhinectomy in the literature, reporting conflicting results about recurrence and metastasis. Objective: Evalua...
Abstract Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans is a rare mesenchymal tumor; it is locally aggressive and presents high rates of local recurrence. It may present as a nodular or plaque vegetating lesion. It mainly affects the trunk and proximal limbs, being rare in the distal extremities. Biopsy and immunohisto...
