Search Results - "Brown, Barry W."
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Phase 1/2 trial of single‐session stereotactic body radiotherapy for previously unirradiated spinal metastases
Published in Cancer (15-10-2012)“…BACKGROUND: In this phase 1/2 study, the authors tested the hypothesis that single‐fraction stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for previously unirradiated…”
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Phase I/II study of stereotactic body radiotherapy for spinal metastasis and its pattern of failure
Published in Journal of neurosurgery. Spine (01-08-2007)“…The authors report data concerning the safety, effectiveness, and patterns of failure obtained in a Phase I/II study of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)…”
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Randomized trial addressing risk features and time factors of surgery plus radiotherapy in advanced head-and-neck cancer
Published in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (01-11-2001)“…A multi-institutional, prospective, randomized trial was undertaken in patients with advanced head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma to address (1) the validity…”
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Phase I clinical evaluation of near-simultaneous computed tomographic image-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy for spinal metastases
Published in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (01-08-2004)“…To evaluate in a Phase I study the safety, feasibility, and patient-positioning accuracy of treating patients with intensity-modulated, near-simultaneous,…”
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Evaluation of the dose for postoperative radiation therapy of head and neck cancer: first report of a prospective randomized trial
Published in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (30-04-1993)“…This study was designed to determine in a prospective randomized trial the optimal dose of conventionally fractionated postoperative radiotherapy for advanced…”
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Expression of Blood-Group Antigen A — A Favorable Prognostic Factor in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Published in The New England journal of medicine (18-04-1991)“…IN patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, the most important prognostic factor is tumor stage, and this factor largely determines treatment. 1 , 2 Surgery…”
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Microsatellite instability in the peripheral blood leukocytes of HNPCC patients
Published in Human mutation (01-03-2010)“…Most hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) patients inherit a defective allele of a mismatch repair (MMR) gene, usually MLH1 or MSH2, resulting in…”
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The development of breast carcinoma in women with thyroid carcinoma
Published in Cancer (15-07-2001)“…BACKGROUND Breast carcinoma and thyroid carcinoma are two malignancies that occur most commonly in women. An association between the incidence rates of thyroid…”
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Microsatellite instability (MSI) increases with age in normal somatic cells
Published in Mechanisms of ageing and development (01-10-2005)“…Small pool PCR (SP-PCR) is a sensitive method for the detection and quantification of microsatellite instability (MSI) in somatic cells. Here we propose that…”
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Microsatellite instability in saliva from patients with hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer and siblings carrying germline mismatch repair gene mutations
Published in Annals of clinical and laboratory science (01-09-2011)“…Microsatellites are short tandem repeats of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences which are distributed throughout the genome. Tumors in patients with Lynch…”
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Generation or birth cohort effect on cancer risk in Li-Fraumeni syndrome
Published in Human genetics (01-12-2005)“…Genetic anticipation is the increased incidence, earlier onset, or increased severity of a disease in successive generations. Before the biological basis of…”
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Prevention of Second Primary Tumors with Isotretinoin in Squamous-Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck
Published in The New England journal of medicine (20-09-1990)“…Cancers of the lung, esophagus, and head and neck are expected to account for nearly one third of the 500,000 deaths due to cancer that have been predicted to…”
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Noncancer deaths in white adult cancer patients
Published in JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute (16-06-1993)“…The cancer-specific death rate is a commonly used indicator in the assessment of progress against cancer. However, since the cause of death is often not…”
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Estimating mutant microsatellite allele frequencies in somatic cells by small-pool PCR
Published in Genomics (San Diego, Calif.) (01-08-2004)“…Identifying microsatellite instability (MSI) by partitioning DNA into multiple small pools containing only single genome amounts of DNA results in trapping…”
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Concomitant boost radiotherapy schedules in the treatment of carcinoma of the oropharynx and nasopharynx
Published in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (01-12-1990)“…Concomitant boost schedules are characterized by delivering the boost (10-12 fractions) as second daily treatments during rather than following the basic wide…”
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The log F: A Distribution for All Seasons
Published in Computational statistics (01-03-2002)“…SummaryFamilies of parametric models are widely used to summarize data, to obtain predictions, assess goodness of fit, to estimate functions of the data not…”
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Some Nonparametric Techniques for Estimating the Intensity Function of a Cancer Related Nonstationary Poisson Process
Published in The Annals of statistics (01-09-1981)“…An attempt is made to model the appearance times of metastases as a nonstationary Poisson process. Three algorithms are developed for this task. The first…”
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Genotype Selection to Rapidly Breed Congenic Strains
Published in Genetics (Austin) (01-07-1997)“…Congenic strains can now be constructed guided by the transmission of DNA markers. This allows not only selection for transmission of a desired, donor-derived…”
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The Asypow S ( -PLUS ) Library for Asymptotic Power Calculations
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Assessing Changes in the Impact of Cancer on Population Survival Without Considering Cause of Death
Published in JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute (01-01-1997)“…Background: We have previously argued against the calculation of cancer-specific death rates as philosophically undefined and biased. Deaths attributed to…”
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