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TABLE 3. Pooled rate ratios * for colorectal, colon, and rectal cancer according to coffee consumption in 1997 among 36, 616 women in the Swedish Mammography Cohort 19982004 ; and among 45, 306 men the Cohort of Swedish Men 19982004.
This background provided the basis for an international co-operative project aimed at identifying a simple and reliable staging system for MM. Clinical and laboratory parameters from 10, 750 previously untreated, symptomatic patients with MM were collected 69.1% from clinical trial data ; . The most powerful classification system was obtained by a combination of serum 2-microglobulin and serum albumin Table 2 ; .10 This International Staging System was validated in various MM patient populations. It was found to be effective in MM patients independent ly of age less or more than 65 years of age ; , type of therapy standard dose or autologous transplantation ; and geographic region North America, Europe, and Asia ; . It is now suggested that the International Staging System is used, particularly in the setting of clinical trials. An improved definition of patients at risk is expected in the future by incorporation of genetic and proteomic data!
Tory of maldescended testes may also require longer treatment in comparison with subjects without this preexisting condition. All subjects, except one, reaching normal or nearly normal values for sperm concentration were in the group of men without a history of maldescended testes. The mean time of 2228 weeks required for sperm concentrations to reach levels of at least 1 106 mL is comparable with or even shorter than that in other studies Kliesch et al, 1994; Burgues et al, 1997; Buchter et al, 1998; European Metrodin HP Study Group, 1998; Liu et al, 1999 ; . By the end of the study, most patients did not reach a normal sperm concentration lower limit 20 106 mL, according to WHO limits ; , although this is not a prerequisite for fertility in this population Finkel et al, 1985; Ley and Leonard, 1985; Burris et al, 1988; Kliesch et al, 1994 ; . It should be noted that this study was not designed as a dose-finding study. The treatment regimens applied have been used for decades already in clinical practice. Only very few studies have applied higher weekly doses than 450 IU of FSH Gayral et al, 1975; Saal et al, 1991, Jones and Darnes, 1993; Kirk et al, 1994 ; . Since these studies included different populations concerning hypothalamic or pituitary disorders and maldescended testes, different treatment regimens for hCG, different treatment durations, and different definitions of efficacy, it is difficult to assess the effect of higher FSH doses. Therefore the applied doses and regimens from past studies and the.
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Results In all, 398 48.5% ; of the female partners were aged 35 years, 269 32.8% ; were aged 3639 years and 154 18.8% ; were aged 40 years. Of the male partners, 527 64.2% ; were aged 39 years, 257 31.3% ; were aged 4049 years and 37 4.5% ; were aged 50 years. Mean maternal age was 35.2 4.5 years. Mean paternal age was 38.4 6.1 years. Table I illustrates the changes in semen parameters as a factor of paternal age. There was a significant linear decline in semen volume as paternal age increased P 0.05 ; . There were no significant differences in sperm concentration, motility or morphology between the three paternal age groups. There was a significantly decreased mean number of oocytes retrieved based on an increasing maternal age. Women aged 35 years n 398 ; had a mean number of 12.8 0.3 oocytes retrieved, women aged 3639 years n 269 ; had 10.6 0.4 oocytes retrieved and women aged 40 years n 0.4 oocytes retrieved P 0.01 ; . There was 154 ; had 8.7 also a significantly decreased mean number of mature oocytes retrieved based on an increasing maternal age. Women aged 35 years n 398 ; had a mean number of 10.0 0.2 mature oocytes retrieved, women aged 3639 years n 269 ; had 8.3 0.3 mature oocytes retrieved and women aged 40 years n 154 ; had 6.9 0.3 mature oocytes retrieved P 0.01 ; . Table II describes the patterns of fertilization after ICSI in relation to paternal age. No differences were found in the oneor two-pronuclear rate based on paternal age. The occurrence of digyny appeared to increase in relation to ageing males. Table III describes the characteristics of fertilization after ICSI in relation to maternal age. No differences were noted in terms of the occurrence of normal fertilization 2PN ; according to the maternal age group. With ageing of the female partner there was a progressive decrease in parthenogenetic activation 1PN ; and an increase in the incidence of abnormal fertilization such as digyny 3PN ; . To exclude the impact of female age when evaluating paternal age in these ICSI-treated couples, we evaluated the fertilization rates and pregnancy outcome results of all couples where the female partner was aged 35 years. When the male partner was aged 50 years there was a remarkable increase in the frequency of digynic 3PN ; oocytes; however, there was no difference in single or bipronuclear formation Table IV ; . In this group of patients there was no influence of paternal ageing on clinical pregnancy or implantation rates Table V ; . Furthermore, there were no differences in the number of pregnancy losses spontaneous miscarriages, blighted ovum or 335 and dronabinol.
Erban, J. K., Esparza-Guerra, L., Earhart, R. H., Hortobagyi, G. N., and Burris, H. A., III. A phase II study of docetaxel in patients with paclitaxel-resistant metastatic breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol., 16: 3362 3368, Sjostrom, J., Blomqvist, C., Mouridsen, H., Pluzanska, A., Ottosson-Lonn, S., Bengtsson, N. O., Ostenstad, B., Mjaaland, I., PalmSjovall, M., Wist, E., Valvere, V., Anderson, H., and Bergh, J. Docetaxel compared with sequential methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil in patients with advanced breast cancer after anthracycline failure: a randomised phase III study with crossover on progression by the Scandinavian Breast Group. Eur. J. Cancer, 35: 1194 1201, Chan, S., Friedrichs, K., Noel, D., Pinter, T., Van Belle, S., Vorobiof, D., Duarte, R., Gil Gil, M., Bodrogi, I., Murray, E., Yelle, L., von Minckwitz, G., Korec, S., Simmonds, P., Buzzi, F., Gonzalez Mancha, R., Richardson, G., Walpole, E., Ronzoni, M., Murawsky, M., Alakl, M., and Riva, A. Prospective randomized trial of docetaxel versus doxorubicin in patients with metastatic breast cancer. The 303 Study Group. J. Clin. Oncol., 17: 23412354, 1999. O'Shaughnessy, J., Miles, D., Vukelja, S., Moiseyenko, V., Ayoub, J. P., Cervantes, G., Fumoleau, P., Jones, S., Lui, W. Y., Mauriac, L., Twelves, C., Van Hazel, G., Verma, S., and Leonard, R. Superior survival with capecitabine plus docetaxel combination therapy in anthracycline-pretreated patients with advanced breast cancer: phase III trial results. J. Clin. Oncol., 20: 28122823, 2002. Bramwell, V. H., Howell, A., Anderson, H., and Rankin, E. M. Intermediate dose single agent cyclophosphamide chemotherapy of advanced breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol., 9: 251256, 1983. Bissery, M. C., Vrignaud, P., and Lavelle, F. Preclinical profile of docetaxel taxotere ; : efficacy as a single agent and in combination. Semin. Oncol., 22: 316, 1995. Nabholtz, J. M., Mackey, J. R., Smylie, M., Paterson, A., Noel, D. R., Al-Tweigeri, T., Tonkin, K., North, S., Azli, N., and Riva, A. Phase II study of docetaxel, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide as first-line chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol., 19: 314 321., Kennedy, M., Zahurak. M., and Donehower, C. Phase I and pharmacologic study of sequences of paclitaxel and cyclophosphamide supported by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in women with previously metastatic breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol., 14: 783791, 1996. Benjapibal, M., Kudelka, A. P., Vasuratna, A., Edwards, C. L., Verschraegen, C. F., Valero, V., Vadhan-Raj, S., and Kavanagh, J. J. Docetaxel and cyclophosphamide induced remission in platinum and paclitaxel refractory ovarian cancer. Anti-Cancer Drugs, 9: 577579, 1998. Pagani, O., Sessa, C., Martinelli, G., Cerny, T., de Jong, J., Goldhirsch, A., Zimatore, M., and Cavalli, F. Dose-finding study of paclitaxel and cyclophosphamide in advanced breast cancer. Ann. Oncol., 8: 655 661., Karnofsky, D. The use of the nitrogen mustards in the palliative treatment of carcinoma. Cancer Phila. ; , 2: 634 656, Hayward, J., Rubens, R., and Carbone, P. Assessment of response to therapy in advanced breast cancer. Br. J. Cancer, 35: 292298, 1977. Bruno, R., Vivler, N., Vergniol, J. C., De Phillips, S. L., Montay, G., and Sheiner, L. B. A population pharmacokinetic model for docetaxel Taxotere ; : model building and validation. J. Pharmacokinet. Biopharm., 24: 153172, 1996. Vergniol, J., Bruno, R., and Montay, G. Determination of Taxotere in human plasma by a semi-automated high-performance liquid chromatographic method. J. Chromatogr., 582: 273278, 1992. Bruno, R., Hille, D., Riva, A., Vivier, N., ten Bokkel Huinnink, W. W., van Oosterom, A. T., Kaye, S. B., Verweij, J., Fossella, F. V., Valero, V., Rigas, J. R., Seidman, A. D., Chevallier, B., Fumoleau, P., Burris, H. A., Ravdin, P. M., and Sheiner, L. B. Population pharmacokinetics pharmacodynamics of docetaxel in phase II. J. Clin. Oncol., 16: 187196, 1998. Fisher, B., Anderson, S., Wickerham, D. L., DeCillis, A., Dimitrov, N., Mamounas, E., Wolmark, N., Pugh, R., Atkins, J. N., Meyers, F. J., Abramson, N., Wolter, J., Bornstein, R. S., Levy, L., Romond, E. H.
A 28% proportional reduction in the risk for recurrence p .001 ; and a 30% proportional reduction in the risk for death p .008 ; compared with FAC. Administration of TAC resulted in a proportional reductions in the risk for recurrence of 31% in ER-negative women p .0297 ; and 38% in ER-positive women p .0076 ; in a prospectively defined subset analysis. Approximately 20% of the women were HER-2 neupositive by fluorescence in situ hybridization FISH ; . Administration of TAC, compared with FAC, resulted in relative risk reductions in terms of DFS of 34% p .046 ; for HER-2 neunegative patients and 40% for HER-2 neupositive patients p .0088 ; . The benefit of TAC appeared to be larger in women with one to three positive lymph nodes than in women with more than four positive nodes. Based on this trial, TAC is FDA-approved for the adjuvant treatment of node-positive breast cancer. At present, there are no data to support the use of adjuvant taxanes in node-negative patients. The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group ECOG ; 2197 trial randomized 2, 885 women with node-negative tumors 1 cm or nodepositive one to three positive nodes only ; tumors to receive either doxorubicin 60 mg m 2 ; and docetaxel 60 mg m 2 ; AT ; or AC, administered every 3 weeks for four cycles [28]. Prophylactic ciprofloxacin Cipro; Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation, West Haven, CT, : bayerus ; , 500 mg orally twice a day for 10 days beginning on day 8, was administered to the AT group. At a median follow-up of 59 months, there was no difference in DFS or OS between the two groups. There was, however, more febrile neutropenia 28% versus 10% ; and more treatment-related deaths four versus two ; in the AT arm and dss.
Cancer lett, 1988 aug 15, 41 2 ; , 169 - 77 the role of oxygen-derived free radicals in the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin in multidrug resistant and sensitive human ovarian cancer cells ; cervantes a et al; the role of oxygen-derived free radicals in the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin dox ; was studied in a dox sensitive human ovarian cancer cell line a2780 ; and its multidrug resistant counterpart 2780ad ; using reactive oxygen scavengers.
To keep her footing as the vibrations grew violent. She braced herself against the wall, blinded by the billowing dust and dirt. She heard grinding and scraping as the chamber walls shuddered and moved apart. Then they stopped. Andie froze as huge chunks of rock crashed around her in the aftermath. She squeezed her eyes shut and covered her mouth and nose against the polluted air. When Andie finally opened her eyes again, she was shocked. She felt lucky she hadn't been killed. The wall she had been leaning against had collapsed to reveal another, much larger chamber behind it. Steps as wide as the now crumpled wall, led into a circular, warehouse-size room. Andie blinked in astonishment as the dust settled on its contents.a fortune in Egyptian treasure. An enormous statue of an ancient Egyptian cat stood guard over shoulder-high mounds of golden icons, coins, and jewelry. It was a colossal version of the ebony statuettes, Andie had seen in gift shops everywhere. Seated on its haunches, its tail was wrapped neatly around its front paws. One giant paw seemed to be resting on something. But Andie was too far away to see it clearly. The tips of the cat's triangular ears nearly touched the ceiling. Its eyes were set with two, luminous, almond-shaped emeralds. It bore a regal, but dangerous expression. A walking path spiraled through the vast treasure, like a pinwheel, and ended directly in front of the statue. Drawn to the treasure, Andie stumbled forward. With one shoe on, she picked her way through the piles of rubble. The air grew warmer as Andie descended the broad stairs. Sweat was beading on her brow, but Andie shivered from the cat's icy stare. The emerald eyes seemed to follow her every move, like a live cat watching, watching a mouse, waiting to pounce and dulcolax.
Table 3. Cologne high-dose sequential--hematologic toxicity High-dose CTX n 88 ; Days with leukocytes 1000 ml median ; Days with platelets 25 000 ml median ; No. RBC transfusions mean per cycle ; No. platelet transfusions mean per cycle ; 4.4 3.0 2.3 High-dose MTX n 83 ; 0.3 0.6 High-dose VP-16 n 83 ; 6.4 4.6 2.6 BEAM.
Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia ALL ; consists of various subtypes that respond differently to cytotoxic drugs and therefore have a markedly different clinical outcome. We used microarrays to investigate in 190 children with ALL at initial diagnosis whether 70 key apoptosis genes were differentially expressed between leukemic subgroups defined by lineage, genetic subtype, in vitro drug resistance and clinical outcome. The expression of 44 of genes was significantly different in T- versus B-lineage ALL, 22 genes differed in hyperdiploid versus non-hyperdiploid, 16 in TEL-AML1 positive versus negative, and 13 in E2A-rearranged versus germline B-lineage ALL. Expression of MCL1 and DAPK1 was significantly associated with prednisolone sensitivity, whereas BCL2L13, HRK and TNF were related to L-asparaginase resistance. BCL2L13 overexpression was also associated with unfavorable clinical outcome P 0.001 ; . Multivariate analysis including known risk factors revealed that BCL2L13 expression was an independent prognostic factor P 0.011 ; . The same trend was observed in a validation group of 92 children with ALL treated on a different protocol at St. Jude P 0.051 ; . In conclusion, ALL subtypes have a unique expression pattern of apoptosis genes and our data suggest that selective genes are linked to cellular drug resistance and prognosis in childhood B-lineage ALL and duragesic.
CMF cyclophosphamide at 100 mg m2 orally days 114, methotrexate at 40 mg m2 intravenously days 1 and 8, and 5-fluorouracil at 600 mg m2 intravenously days 1 and 8; cycles repeated every 28 days. CAF cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and 5-fluorouracil doses not specified ; . CEF cyclophosphamide at 0.75 mg m2 orally days 114, epirubicin 60 mg m2 intravenously days 1 and 8, and 5-fluorouracil 500 mg m2 intravenously days 1 and 8; cycles repeated every 28 days. FEC 5-fluorouracil at 500 mg m2 intravenously, epirubicin at 90120 mg m2 intravenously, and cyclophosphamide at 500 mg m2 intravenously; cycles repeated every 21 days. CTC high dose ; four cycles FEC followed by cyclophosphamide at 6 g intravenously, thiotepa at 480 mg m2 intravenously, cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin or cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and carboplatin at 1.6 g m2 intravenously with autologous stem cell support. Other 5-fluorouracil, vincristine, prednisolone or cyclophosphamide, and carboplatin doses not specified ; . N S trend statistically nonsignificant trend. n a not assessed.
Introduction: Hyper CVADMTX HiDAC, a dose-intensive regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide doxorubicin vincristine dexamethasone alternating with methotrexate cytarabine has been used with encouraging results in mantle cell and lymphoblastic lymphoma, and leukaemia and is under investigation by the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group for the initial therapy of poorprognosis diffuse large-cell lymphoma. The acute side-effects of this regimen are well-documented. However, long-term effects on fertility have not been explored. Therefore the aim of this study was to assess the impact of Hyper-CVAD on female fertility. Method: Retrospective analysis of women 40 years of age who received Hyper CVAD-MTX HiDAC as initial chemotherapy at two centres. Menstrual pattern off hormonal agents ; and pregnancy were used to define ovarian function and fertility. Results: Twelve patients were identified, however 5 were inevaluable early death in 3, and continuous oral contraceptive use in 2 ; . the 7 evaluable patients, 2 had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and also received prednisolone vincristine mercaptopurine methotrexate maintenance ; , 2 diffuse large-cell lymphomas, 1 anaplastic lymphoma, 1 primary mediastinal lymphoma and 1 lymphoblastic lymphoma. Median age was 25 years range 19-35 ; . Median number of Hyper-CVAD and MTX HiDAC cycles administered was 4 and 3 respectively. Of the 7 patients, 6 maintained their fertility, as evidenced by return of regular menstrual cycles off hormonal agents, or by naturally achieving pregnancy n 3 ; . The time to resumption of regular menstruation ranged from 1-15 months post cessation of chemotherapy. One patient age 35 ; remains amenorrhoeic at 6 months post completion of chemotherapy. Conclusion: Resumption of regular menstrual cycles is probable after Hyper CVAD- MTX HiDAC chemotherapy. Multiple successful natural pregnancies have been achieved. Future studies are required to corroborate these findings and to accurately define the percentage of women in who ovarian function will be retained and echinacea.
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The calgb-9344 study was a randomized, phase iii clinical trial comparing doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide ac ; alone versus ac followed by taxol in women with breast cancer that spread to the lymph nodes under the arm and doxorubicin.
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Of those elements, but to product identification, and the court found the case inapplicable. Defendants' leap of logic that a refusal in dictum to extend Brandenburger's holding is the same as a rejection of circumstantial evidence misconstrues the court's language. The court found that plaintiff had failed to put forth an argument for an extension of Brandenburger. The court did not find that circumstantial evidence was inadmissible. Indeed, the very holding of the court's order is obviously based on the principle that parties may offer and rely upon circumstantial evidence, even or especially ; where direct evidence is minimal or nonexistent. Defendants were and are unable to argue otherwise. Defendants' bald assertion that "the court's clear ruling is that circumstantial evidence cannot be considered" is simply not compatible with the court's holding or the law. Defendants next argue that the court applied an incorrect standard to their motion for summary judgment. According to defendants, the court relied on a Fed. R. Civ. P. 12 b ; motion-to-dismiss standard, despite the paragraph in Section II.A. elaborating on the summary judgment standard used. Defendants base their position, apparently, on the court's use of "alleged" in the following sentence, taken from the order: "Taking as true all of plaintiff's alleged facts, however, and drawing all reasonable inferences therefrom, the court finds that a reasonable jury could well conclude that Laird-Miller ingested the drug in the three-day period preceding her stroke. Summary Judgment is therefore denied." Order at 5. ORDER Page - 2.
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Cardiotoxicity has been a major factor in limiting use of the anthracyclines, doxorubicin and daunorubicin. Toxicity is essentially of two kinds: acute, supraventricular tachycardia 197 ; , which is a relatively uncommon complication, and a delayed, dose-related, cardiomyopathy 53 ; , resulting in congestive heart failure. Higher cumulative doses are associated with cardiomyopathy. Special attention must be given to the cardiotoxicity induced by doxorubicin. Irreversible myocardial toxicity, manifested in its most severe form by life-threatening congestive heart failure, may occur either during therapy or months to years after termination of therapy. The probability of developing impaired myocardial function, based on a combined index of signs, symptoms and decline in left ventricular ejection fraction LVEF ; is estimated to be 1 total cumulative dose of 300 mg m of doxorubicin, 3 to 5% at a dose of 400 mg m, 5 to 8% at a dose of 450 mg m and 6 to 20% at a dose of 500 mg m given in a schedule of a bolus injection once every 3 weeks. It is this specific cardiotoxicity that renders nogalamycin therapeutically useless. Because of the risk of symptomatic and potentially fatal heart failure, it is usual to limit total cumulative doses of doxorubicin to 450 mg m2 bodyP P and elidel.
Similar with respect to demographics, renal function, dosage of CsA, BP, and concomitant medication. Both the creatinine clearance 71.7 versus 60.9 ml min ; and calculated GFR 73.2 versus 61.9 ml min ; were significantly better in MMF-treated patients at 1 yr. Conversion to MMF was associated with a decline of systolic and diastolic BP 128 76 versus 139 82 mmHg ; and with a more favorable lipid profile. There was no difference in patient survival 100% ; and graft survival 97.7% versus 100% ; . Acute rejection episodes occurred more frequently after withdrawal of CsA 11.3% versus 5.0% ; , but the difference was NS. Early tapering of CsA can safely be accomplished in renal transplant recipients who are stable on a triple drug regimen with MMF, thereby resulting in improved renal function, a more favorable lipid profile, and beneficial effects on posttransplant hypertension and dronabinol.
A neoadjuvant paclitaxel protocol was offered to women with primary breast cancer if the tumor was T2 or greater and there was no evidence of systemic metastatic disease. Four pretreatment core biopsies 14-gauge ; were obtained from different parts of the tumor mass for tissue diagnosis and immunohistochemical assays of selected biomarkers. After obtaining informed consent for treatment from the patients, paclitaxel 200 mg m2 ; was administered for 3 h as i.v. infusion and was given every 2 weeks for a total of four cycles. Surgery was usually performed 23 weeks after the last dose of paclitaxel. The post-treatment surgical specimen was thoroughly examined and the tumor bed extensively sampled. Postoperative chemotherapy doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide ; and radiation therapy were administered as adjuvant treatment. Tamoxifen was subsequently added for patients who had tumors positive for estrogen and or progesterone receptors. Clinical response to neoadjuvant paclitaxel chemotherapy was determined as reported previously 11, 27 ; . Women who opted for neoadjuvant paclitaxel chemotherapy were also offered participation in a clinical trial using serial FNAs to assess apoptotic response to the first dose of paclitaxel as reported previously 11 ; . Ten of the 25 patients consented to participate. Briefly, the primary tumor was sampled by FNA before the core biopsy before chemotherapy ; to obtain a baseline value and at 24, 48, 72, and 96 h after the first paclitaxel infusion. H&Estained cytology smears prepared from this material were analyzed microscopically, and the number of apoptotic cells in 1000 cancer cells was recorded as percentage index ; . The apoptotic index at each time point was divided by the pretreatment index and expressed as a ratio to correct for variability in baseline and eligard.
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