Current Oncology, Volume 27, Issue 6

Background：Bleomycin is commonly used to treat advanced testicular cancer and can be associated with severe pulmonary toxicity. The primary objective of the present study was to describe the use of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and chest imaging be...

Background: In patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) following sorafenib failure, it is unclear which treatment is most efficacious, as treatments in the second-line setting have not been directly compared and no standard therapy exis...

Background: Smoking by cancer patients and survivors causes adverse cancer treatment outcomes, but little information is available about how smoking can affect cancer treatment costs. Methods: We developed a model to estimate attributable cancer trea...

Patients with hematologic malignancies receive palliative care (PC) less frequently and later than patients with solid tumours. We compared survey responses of hematology oncology clinicians with other oncology clinicians to better understand their c...

The advent of personalized therapy for non-small-cell lung carcinoma (nsclc) has improved patient outcomes. Selection of appropriate targeted therapy for patients with nsclc now involves testing for multiple biomarkers, including EGFR. EGFR mutation...

Introduction: The abscopal effect is a rarely observed outcome of radiotherapy wherein there is a reduction in metastatic disease burden outside of the targeted treatment area. Likely due to an in situ vaccine effect of radiotherapy, the abscopal eff...

Lymphedema is a chronic inflammatory condition that results from damage to the lymphatic system. Lymphedema is classified as either primary or secondary, the former being caused by a malformation of lymph vessels or nodes, and the latter resulting fr...

Background: Gastric adenosquamous carcinoma (GASC) is a rare entity with distinctive characteristics that are not fully understood. In the present study, we evaluated the characteristics of this rare disease. Methods: The U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiol...

Background: Treatment of hepatic metastases from neuroendocrine tumours improves survival and symptom relief. Hepatic arterial embolotherapy techniques include transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) and bland embolization (TAE). The relative efficacy...

Introduction: Prostate cancer remains the 3rd leading cause of cancer-related mortality in Canadian men, and yet screening for prostate cancer continues to be controversial because the majority of men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die of the...