It was shown that of four syngeneic, murine tumors investigated, only those that evoked the generation of a state of concomitant anti-tumor immunity were susceptible to endotoxin-induced regression. Moreover, the temporal relationship between the generation of concomitant immunity and the onset of susceptibility to endotoxin-induced regression points to the likely possibility that tumor regress...

Histopathologic determination of tumor regression provides important prognostic information for locally advanced gastroesophageal carcinomas after neoadjuvant treatment. Regression grading systems mostly refer to the amount of therapy-induced fibrosis in relation to residual tumor or the estimated percentage of residual tumor in relation to the former tumor site. Although these methods are gene...

background: the oncologic behavior of mucinous adenocarcinoma (ma) of colorectal differs from non-mucinous adenocarcinoma (nma). ma is more advanced at diagnosis and has a poorer prognosis than nma. we aimed to evaluate prognostic factors and survival rate in patients with ma compared with nma in western iran. methods: during 2008-2015 in a retrospective study, 83 patients with crc referred to ...

background: although the cox proportional hazard regression is the most popular model for analyzing the prognostic factors on survival of cancer patients, under certain circumstances, parametric models estimate the parameter more efficiently than the cox model.  the aim of this study was to compare the cox regression model  with parametric models in patients with gastric cancer who registered a...

PURPOSE To determine interfractional changes of lung tumor centroid position and tumor regression during stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). METHODS AND MATERIALS 34 patients were treated by SBRT in 4-5 fractions to a median dose of 50 Gy. The CT scans acquired for verification were registered with simulation CT scans. The gross target volume (GTV) was contoured on all verification CT...

It was shown that it is possible to use cyclophosphamide (Cy) to cause immunologically mediated regression of the immunogenic, Cy-resistant L5178Y lymphoma in syngeneic and semisyngeneic mice. In order to cause tumor regression it was necessary to give Cy shortly before or shortly after tumor implantation. However, regardless of whether Cy was given before or after tumor implantation, tumor reg...

This study shows that intravenous injection of 1 mg of anti-L3T4 mAb (GK1.5) into thymectomized mice bearing the syngeneic L5178Y lymphoma results, after a delay of 2-3 d, in complete regression of this tumor and in long-term host survival. A flow cytofluorometric examination of the spleen cells of mAb-treated mice revealed that antibody treatment resulted in the elimination of greater than 98%...

BACKGROUND The benefits of preoperative chemotherapy and radiation for esophageal carcinoma are under investigation. A pilot study was undertaken to determine if pathologic assessment of tumor regression correlated with disease free survival. METHODS Ninety-three resected specimens from patients treated with cis-dichloro-diamino cisplatin and irradiation before surgery were examined on semise...