Hakan Bozcuk

..In this setting, we assessed the predictors of benefit from neoadjuvant chemotherapy before radiotherapy...

..On the contrary, those with hepatic dysfunction, female gender, poor social functioning and constipation are the ones at increased risk of poor emotional functioning, and these patients may benefit from psychological screening...

..Current progress in clinical trials using adenovirus-mediated delivery of TNF-alpha is also discussed...

..3%, P < 0.001). This preliminary work shows that zoledronic acid acts synergistically with vinblastine to induce apoptosis in an MRP-1 dependent way...

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..88 in the derivation cohort and 0.82 in the validation cohort. Using readily available clinical parameters, it is possible to devise an accurate and applicable risk prediction model for the hospitalised cancer patients...

..To assess the relationship of various growth factors and cytokines with the clinical outcome in metastatic breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy...

..We aimed to identify the roles of P53, c-erb- B2 and p-glycoprotein (pgp) as prognostic factors, independently or in conjunction with each other, in operable NSCLC...

..Adjuvant chemotherapy is associated with poor quality of life (qol) in breast cancer patients. We tested the effect of listening to music during chemotherapy on quality of life in these patients...

..Conversely, in this cohort, patients who are likely to have deteriorating QOL on chemotherapy may benefit from closer follow-up and nursing care to optimize supportive measures...

..92 and >or=0.92 were 423 versus 1004 days (Log rank statistic=6.37, P=0.012). This study suggests that WHR may serve as a potential predictive marker in MBC patients treated with AIs...

..The role of maintenance/consolidation chemotherapy was assessed in the management of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) via a metaanalytic approach...

..Previous studies have suggested that DNA repair enzyme polymorphisms may bear prognostic value in metastatic colorectal carcinoma (MCRC)...

..Thus, we recommend a long screening time for secondary tumors after a curative treatment in patients with common cancers, taking into account the different occurrence patterns of second primaries with respect to first primaries...

..We investigated which factors predicted the risk of in-hospital mortality in a general population of cancer patients with non-terminal disease and whether employing the genetic algorithm technique would be useful in this regard...

..The risk profile of white-coat hypertension is not yet completely clear. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of high-sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) in white-coat hypertensive subjects...

..Subsequently, they were treated with pelvic external radiotherapy and high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy with concurrent cisplatin based chemotherapy. They were alive with no evidence of disease at 91 and 65 months, respectively...

..In conclusion, in patients presenting with gastrointestinal complaints, the finding of elevated CEA levels may help in the diagnosis of cancer by prompting a more extensive search for intraabdominal cancer...

..In this study, the effect of intraperitoneal (IP) immunoglobulin (Ig) usage, as an approach for strengthening opsonization, was evaluated in CAPD peritonitis...

..To investigate the correlation among some of the commonly used clinical, pathological factors and newer biological indicators, and to identify the independent predictors of distant metastasis at presentation in patients with breast cancer...

..Thus, we show for the first time in a lung cancer cell line that zoledronic acid bears cytotoxic potential on its own and in conjunction with cisplatin. The clinical potential of this finding should be further studied...