Search Results - "Zavagno, Giorgio"
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Prognostic Value of Putative Circulating Cancer Stem Cells in Patients Undergoing Hepatic Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastasis
Published in Annals of surgical oncology (01-02-2012)“…Background Although surgery is the gold standard treatment of hepatic metastasis from colorectal cancer (CRC), many patients ultimately die of their disease…”
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Phase II study of neoadjuvant gemcitabine, pegylated liposomal doxorubicin, and docetaxel in locally advanced breast cancer
Published in Anticancer research (01-09-2010)“…This was a phase II study to assess the activity of a novel neoadjuvant regimen in locally-advanced breast cancer. Fifty patients with histological…”
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Role of axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with pure ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast
Published in BMC cancer (11-03-2005)“…Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is an effective tool for axillary staging in patients with invasive breast cancer. This procedure has been recently proposed…”
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The prognostic value of serum S100B in patients with cutaneous melanoma: A meta‐analysis
Published in International journal of cancer (15-11-2008)“…S100B protein detected in the serum of patients with cutaneous melanoma has been long reported as a prognostic biomarker. However, no consensus exists on its…”
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A Randomized Clinical Trial on Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Versus Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer : Results of the Sentinella/GIVOM Trial
Published in Annals of surgery (01-02-2008)“…The aim of this multicenter randomized trial was to assess the efficacy and safety of sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy compared with axillary lymph node…”
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Sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer: is it already a standard of care? A survey of current practice in an Italian region
Published in BMC cancer (22-01-2004)“…Although sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is becoming the standard approach for axillary staging in patients with small breast cancer, criteria for patient selection…”
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Multicenter comparative multimodality surveillance of women at genetic-familial high risk for breast cancer (HIBCRIT study): interim results
Published in Radiology (01-03-2007)“…To prospectively compare clinical breast examination (CBE), mammography, ultrasonography (US), and contrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging…”
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Role of resection margins in patients treated with breast conservation surgery
Published in Cancer (01-05-2008)“…BACKGROUND After breast conservation therapy (BCT), margin status is routinely evaluated to select patients who need reexcision. The aim of this study was to…”
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Multiple sentinel nodes in breast cancer: how many should be removed?
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Sentinel lymph node metastasis from mammary ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion
Published in Breast (Edinburgh) (01-04-2007)“…Summary Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion (DCISM) of the breast was controversial, because of…”
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Support vector machine learning model for the prediction of sentinel node status in patients with cutaneous melanoma
Published in Annals of surgical oncology (01-08-2006)“…Currently, approximately 80% of melanoma patients undergoing sentinel node biopsy (SNB) have negative sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs), and no prediction system is…”
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The role of preoperative ultrasound scan in detecting lymph node metastasis before sentinel node biopsy in melanoma patients
Published in Journal of surgical oncology (01-06-2003)“…Background and Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of preoperative ultrasound (US) scanning in identifying lymph node metastasis before sentinel node biopsy…”
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Axillary recurrence after negative sentinel lymph node biopsy without axillary dissection: a study on 479 breast cancer patients
Published in European journal of surgical oncology (01-09-2005)“…To determine the axillary recurrence rate in breast cancer patients with negative sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) who did not undergo further axillary lymph node…”
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Separate cavity margins excision as a complement to conservative breast cancer surgery
Published in European journal of surgical oncology (01-07-2010)“…Abstract Background Positive lumpectomy margins (LM) usually mandate re-excision. However, approximately half of these patients have no residual tumour in the…”
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Correlation between magnetic resonance imaging and histopathological tumor response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer
Published in Tumori (01-07-2008)“…To evaluate the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging in assessing tumor response following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced breast…”
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Number of metastatic sentinel nodes as predictor of axillary involvement in patients with breast cancer
Published in Breast cancer research and treatment (01-07-2004)“…More than half of patients with positive sentinel node (SN) have no metastases in non-sentinel nodes (NSNs) on axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). The aim…”
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Sentinel-node biopsy in breast cancer
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Sentinel-Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer
Published in The New England journal of medicine (13-11-2003)“…To the Editor: Veronesi and colleagues (Aug. 7 issue) 1 report a sensitivity of 91.2 percent with the use of a meticulous frozen-section method in which at…”
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