Malignant mesothelioma
Molecular biology of malignant mesothelioma
... Malignant mesothelioma is a highly aggressive tumor, and the patient prognosis with advanced-stage MM is very poor. Combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and antif- olate has recently been shown to be ...
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Angiogenesis is an independent prognostic factor in malignant mesothelioma.
... Summary Angiogenesis is essential for tumour growth beyond 1 to 2 mm in diameter. The clinical relevance of angiogenesis, as assessed by microvessel density (MVD), is unclear in malignant mesothelioma (MM). ...
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Malignant Mesothelioma: A Study of Sixty-Six Cases
... Malignant Mesothelioma (MM) is an aggressive tumor of serosal surfaces, such as the pleura and the peritoneum ...of malignant mesothelioma for many decades to come; unless strong occupational ...
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A case report of metastasis of malignant mesothelioma to the retromolar trigone
... Malignant mesothelioma is a malignant neoplasm of mesodermal origin and arises from multipotential meso- thelial or subserosal cells of the pleura, pericardium and ...diffuse malignant pleural ...
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Anti CTLA 4 therapy for malignant mesothelioma
... The primary endpoint was the proportion of treated patients who reached a complete or partial objective response according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) for peritoneal malignant ...
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Evaluation of clonal origin of malignant mesothelioma
... of malignant mesothelioma (MM) has not been ...to malignant transformation after 30-50 years ...undergoes malignant transformation during the process that gives rise to MM, and result in a ...
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Malignant mesothelioma in construction workers: the Apulia regional mesothelioma register, Southern Italy
... Peritoneal mesothelioma in the construction indus- try in Sweden was described by Malkerr in [42], espe- cially among insulation workers, and by Fonte [43] in a case involving workers in the building industry aged ...
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Oncolytic virotherapy for human malignant mesothelioma: recent advances
... Abstract: Cancer virotherapy is an attractive alternative to conventional treatments because it offers a wide range of antitumor effects due to 1) the diversity of the oncolytic viruses that are now available and 2) ...
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Malignant mesothelioma
... a malignant pleural process from an inflammatory process is a priority and immunohistochemistry has demon- strated that mesothelioma frequently shows immunore- activity for keratin, p53 and epithelial ...
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Zoledronic acid overcomes chemoresistance and immunosuppression of malignant mesothelioma
... Besides chemoresistance, the tumor-induced immunosuppression makes HMM an aggressive tumor. The role of the immunosuppressive metabolite kynurenine, as well as the molecular pathways up- regulating the kynurenine ...
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Distinctive clinical characteristics of malignant mesothelioma in young patients
... to mesothelioma is supported by a large body of literature which suggests that at least in some individuals there may be a genetic basis for developing mesothelioma, which could lead to mesothelioma ...
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Re-evaluation of histological diagnoses of malignant mesothelioma by immunohistochemistry
... markers, and a broad spectrum CK mix. They point out that the preferred markers depend on the experience of the laboratory, and that more mesothelial, epithelial, vascular, and malignant melanoma markers can ...
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Switching off malignant mesothelioma : exploiting the hypoxic microenvironment
... pleural mesothelioma cell lines and tumors ...in mesothelioma have not been released, concurrent inhibition of various activated RTKs with pro- apoptotic and anti-proliferative effects in ...
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Clinical and Prognostic Features of Erionite Induced Malignant Mesothelioma
... pleural mesothelioma (E-MPM) and any data to support a genetically predis- posed mechanism to erionite fiber ...nant mesothelioma cases in Europe and even in North ...
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Switching off malignant mesothelioma: exploiting the hypoxic microenvironment
... pleural mesothelioma cell lines and tumors ...in mesothelioma have not been released, concurrent inhibition of various activated RTKs with pro- apoptotic and anti-proliferative effects in ...
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Malignant Mesothelioma Diagnosed with Skin Biopsy
... Bu çalışmamızda, oldukça nadir görülen, cilt metastazı ile klinik bulgu veren ve cilt biyopsisiyle tanısı konulan ma- lign plevral mezotelyoma olgusunu sunmayı amaçladık.. OLGU.[r] ...
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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma at a Young Age
... Malignant mesothelioma is a tumor with poor prog- nosis that usually occurs 20-40 years after asbestos ...with malignant pleural mesothelioma who did not report any asbestos ...some ...
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Analysis of prognostic factors of patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma
... of Malignant Mesothelioma: 2012 Update of the Consensus Statement from the Inter- national Mesothelioma Interest Group ...with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma refer to patients who do ...
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A seven year disease free survivor of malignant pleural mesothelioma treated with hyperthermia and chemotherapy: a case report
... for malignant mesothelioma, such as cytokeratin fragment (CYFRA) and tissue poly- peptide antigen (TPA), were within normal limits, the hya- luronic acid concentration in the right pleural effusion was ...
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Current therapies for malignant pleural mesothelioma
... of mesothelioma in the twenty-first century ...in mesothelioma rates in the ...from mesothelioma increased markedly from 500 cases in 1995 to 953 cases in 2004; this increase occurred in parallel ...
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