• Competing mortality in patients with neuroendocrine tumors 

      Low S.K., Giannis D., Bahaie N.S., Trong B.L.H., Moris D., Huy N.T. (2019)
      Objectives: Patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are at increased risk of mortality from competing causes in light of the improvement in overall survival over recent decades. The purpose of this study was to explore ...
    • The epidemiology, staging and outcomes of sarcomatoid hepatocellular carcinoma: A SEER population analysis 

      Giannis D., Morsy S., Geropoulos G., Esagian S.M., Sioutas G.S., Moris D. (2021)
      Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) subtypes differ in terms of histopathology and prognosis. Sarcomatoid HCC is rare and literature concerning the survival of patients with sarcomatoid HCC is scarce. Materials and ...
    • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Fullman N., Yearwood J., Abay S.M., Abbafati C., Abd-Allah F., Abdela J., Abdelalim A., Abebe Z., Abebo T.A., Aboyans V., Abraha H.N., Abreu D.M.X., Abu-Raddad L.J., Adane A.A., Adedoyin R.A., Adetokunboh O., Adhikari T.B., Afarideh M., Afshin A., Agarwal G., Agius D., Agrawal A., Agrawal S., Ahmad Kiadaliri A., Aichour M.T.E., Akibu M., Akinyemi R.O., Akinyemiju T.F., Akseer N., Al Lami F.H., Alahdab F., Al-Aly Z., Alam K., Alam T., Alasfoor D., Albittar M.I., Alene K.A., Al-Eyadhy A., Ali S.D., Alijanzadeh M., Aljunid S.M., Alkerwi A., Alla F., Allebeck P., Allen C., Alomari M.A., Al-Raddadi R., Alsharif U., Altirkawi K.A., Alvis-Guzman N., Amare A.T., Amenu K., Ammar W., Amoako Y.A., Anber N., Andrei C.L., Androudi S., Antonio C.A.T., Araújo V.E.M., Aremu O., Ärnlöv J., Artaman A., Aryal K.K., Asayesh H., Asfaw E.T., Asgedom S.W., Asghar R.J., Ashebir M.M., Asseffa N.A., Atey T.M., Atre S.R., Atteraya M.S., Avila-Burgos L., Avokpaho E.F.G.A., Awasthi A., Ayala Quintanilla B.P., Ayalew A.A., Ayele H.T., Ayer R., Ayuk T.B., Azzopardi P., Azzopardi-Muscat N., Babalola T.K., Badali H., Badawi A., Banach M., Banerjee A., Banstola A., Barber R.M., Barboza M.A., Barker-Collo S.L., Bärnighausen T., Barquera S., Barrero L.H., Bassat Q., Basu S., Baune B.T., Bazargan-Hejazi S., Bedi N., Beghi E., Behzadifar M., Behzadifar M., Bekele B.B., Belachew A.B., Belay S.A., Belay Y.A., Bell M.L., Bello A.K., Bennett D.A., Bennett J.R., Bensenor I.M., Berhe D.F., Bernabé E., Bernstein R.S., Beuran M., Bhalla A., Bhatt P., Bhaumik S., Bhutta Z.A., Biadgo B., Bijani A., Bikbov B., Birungi C., Biryukov S., Bizuneh H., Bolliger I.W., Bolt K., Bou-Orm I.R., Bozorgmehr K., Brady O.J., Brazinova A., Breitborde N.J.K., Brenner H., Britton G., Brugha T.S., Butt Z.A., Cahuana-Hurtado L., Campos-Nonato I.R., Campuzano J.C., Car J., Car M., Cárdenas R., Carrero J.J., Carvalho F., Castañeda-Orjuela C.A., Castillo Rivas J., Catalá-López F., Cercy K., Chalek J., Chang H.-Y., Chang J.-C., Chattopadhyay A., Chaturvedi P., Chiang P.P.-C., Chisumpa V.H., Choi J.-Y.J., Christensen H., Christopher D.J., Chung S.-C., Ciobanu L.G., Cirillo M., Colombara D., Conti S., Cooper C., Cornaby L., Cortesi P.A., Cortinovis M., Costa Pereira A., Cousin E., Criqui M.H., Cromwell E.A., Crowe C.S., Crump J.A., Daba A.K., Dachew B.A., Dadi A.F., Dandona L., Dandona R., Dargan P.I., Daryani A., Daryani M., Das J., Das S.K., Das Neves J., Davis Weaver N., Davletov K., De Courten B., De Leo D., De Neve J.-W., Dellavalle R.P., Demoz G., Deribe K., Des Jarlais D.C., Dey S., Dharmaratne S.D., Dhimal M., Djalalinia S., Doku D.T., Dolan K., Dorsey E.R., Dos Santos K.P.B., Doyle K.E., Driscoll T.R., Dubey M., Dubljanin E., Duncan B.B., Echko M., Edessa D., Edvardsson D., Ehrlich J.R., Eldrenkamp E., El-Khatib Z., Endres M., Endries A.Y., Eshrati B., Eskandarieh S., Esteghamati A., Fakhar M., Farag T., Faramarzi M., Faraon E.J.A., Faro A., Farzadfar F., Fatusi A., Fazeli M.S., Feigin V.L., Feigl A.B., Fentahun N., Fereshtehnejad S.-M., Fernandes E., Fernandes J.C., Fijabi D.O., Filip I., Fischer F., Fitzmaurice C., Flaxman A.D., Flor L.S., Foigt N., Foreman K.J., Frostad J.J., Fürst T., Futran N.D., Gakidou E., Gallus S., Gambashidze K., Gamkrelidze A., Ganji M., Gebre A.K., Gebrehiwot T.T., Gebremedhin A.T., Gelaw Y.A., Geleijnse J.M., Geremew D., Gething P.W., Ghadimi R., Ghasemi Falavarjani K., Ghasemi-Kasman M., Gill P.S., Giref A.Z., Giroud M., Gishu M.D., Giussani G., Godwin W.W., Goli S., Gomez-Dantes H., Gona P.N., Goodridge A., Gopalani S.V., Goryakin Y., Goulart A.C., Grada A., Griswold M., Grosso G., Gugnani H.C., Guo Y., Gupta R., Gupta R., Gupta T., Gupta T., Gupta V., Haagsma J.A., Hachinski V., Hafezi-Nejad N., Hailu G.B., Hamadeh R.R., Hamidi S., Hankey G.J., Harb H.L., Harewood H.C., Harikrishnan S., Haro J.M., Hassen H.Y., Havmoeller R., Hawley C., Hay S.I., He J., Hearps S.J.C., Hegazy M.I., Heibati B., Heidari M., Hendrie D., Henry N.J., Herrera Ballesteros V.H., Herteliu C., Hibstu D.T., Hiluf M.K., Hoek H.W., Homaie Rad E., Horita N., Hosgood H.D., Hosseini M., Hosseini S.R., Hostiuc M., Hostiuc S., Hoy D.G., Hsairi M., Htet A.S., Hu G., Huang J.J., Iburg K.M., Idris F., Igumbor E.U., Ikeda C., Ileanu B.V., Ilesanmi O.S., Innos K., Irvani S.S.N., Irvine C.M.S., Islami F., Jacobs T.A., Jacobsen K.H., Jahanmehr N., Jain R., Jain S.K., Jakovljevic M.M., Jalu M.T., Jamal A.A., Javanbakht M., Jayatilleke A.U., Jeemon P., Jha R.P., Jha V., Józwiak J., John O., Johnson S.C., Jonas J.B., Joshua V., Jürisson M., Kabir Z., Kadel R., Kahsay A., Kalani R., Kar C., Karanikolos M., Karch A., Karema C.K., Karimi S.M., Kasaeian A., Kassa D.H., Kassa G.M., Kassa T.D., Kassebaum N.J., Katikireddi S.V., Kaul A., Kawakami N., Kazanjan K., Kebede S., Keiyoro P.N., Kemp G.R., Kengne A.P., Kereselidze M., Ketema E.B., Khader Y.S., Khafaie M.A., Khajavi A., Khalil I.A., Khan E.A., Khan G., Khan M.N., Khan M.A., Khanal M.N., Khang Y.-H., Khater M.M., Khoja A.T.A., Khosravi A., Khubchandani J., Kibret G.D., Kiirithio D.N., Kim D., Kim Y.J., Kimokoti R.W., Kinfu Y., Kinra S., Kisa A., Kissoon N., Kochhar S., Kokubo Y., Kopec J.A., Kosen S., Koul P.A., Koyanagi A., Kravchenko M., Krishan K., Krohn K.J., Kuate Defo B., Kumar G.A., Kumar P., Kutz M., Kuzin I., Kyu H.H., Lad D.P., Lafranconi A., Lal D.K., Lalloo R., Lam H., Lan Q., Lang J.J., Lansingh V.C., Lansky S., Larsson A., Latifi A., Lazarus J.V., Leasher J.L., Lee P.H., Legesse Y., Leigh J., Leshargie C.T., Leta S., Leung J., Leung R., Levi M., Li Y., Liang J., Liben M.L., Lim L.-L., Lim S.S., Lind M., Linn S., Listl S., Liu P.Y., Liu S., Lodha R., Lopez A.D., Lorch S.A., Lorkowski S., Lotufo P.A., Lucas T.C.D., Lunevicius R., Lurton G., Lyons R.A., Maalouf F., Macarayan E.R.K., Mackay M.T., Maddison E.R., Madotto F., Magdy Abd El Razek H., Magdy Abd El Razek M., Majdan M., Majdzadeh R., Majeed A., Malekzadeh R., Malhotra R., Malta D.C., Mamun A.A., Manguerra H., Manhertz T., Mansournia M.A., Mantovani L.G., Manyazewal T., Mapoma C.C., Margono C., Martinez-Raga J., Martins S.C.O., Martins-Melo F.R., Martopullo I., März W., Massenburg B.B., Mathur M.R., Maulik P.K., Mazidi M., McAlinden C., McGrath J.J., McKee M., Mehata S., Mehrotra R., Mehta K.M., Mehta V., Meier T., Mejia-Rodriguez F., Meles K.G., Melku M., Memiah P., Memish Z.A., Mendoza W., Mengiste D.A., Mengistu D.T., Menota B.G., Mensah G.A., Meretoja A., Meretoja T.J., Mezgebe H.B., Miazgowski T., Micha R., Milam R., Millear A., Miller T.R., Mini G.K., Minnig S., Mirica A., Mirrakhimov E.M., Misganaw A., Mitchell P.B., Mlashu F.W., Moazen B., Mohammad K.A., Mohammadibakhsh R., Mohammed E., Mohammed M.A., Mohammed S., Mokdad A.H., Mola G.L.D., Molokhia M., Momeniha F., Monasta L., Montañez Hernandez J.C., Moosazadeh M., Moradi-Lakeh M., Moraga P., Morawska L., Moreno Velasquez I., Mori R., Morrison S.D., Moses M., Mousavi S.M., Mueller U.O., Murhekar M., Murthy G.V.S., Murthy S., Musa J., Musa K.I., Mustafa G., Muthupandian S., Nagata C., Nagel G., Naghavi M., Naheed A., Naik G.A., Naik N., Najafi F., Naldi L., Nangia V., Nansseu J.R.N., Narayan K.M.V., Nascimento B.R., Negoi I., Negoi R.I., Newton C.R., Ngunjiri J.W., Nguyen G., Nguyen L., Nguyen T.H., Nichols E., Ningrum D.N.A., Nolte E., Nong V.M., Norheim O.F., Norrving B., Noubiap J.J.N., Nyandwi A., Obermeyer C.M., Ofori-Asenso R., Ogbo F.A., Oh I.-H., Oladimeji O., Olagunju A.T., Olagunju T.O., Olivares P.R., De Oliveira P.P.V., Olsen H.E., Olusanya B.O., Olusanya J.O., Ong K., Opio J.N., Oren E., Ortega-Altamirano D.V., Ortiz A., Ozdemir R., Pa M., Pain A.W., Palone M.R.T., Pana A., Panda-Jonas S., Pandian J.D., Park E.-K., Parsian H., Patel T., Pati S., Patil S.T., Patle A., Patton G.C., Paturi V.R., Paudel D., De Moares Pedroso M., Pedroza S.P., Pereira D.M., Perico N., Peterson H., Petzold M., Peykari N., Phillips M.R., Piel F.B., Pigott D.M., Pillay J.D., Piradov M.A., Polinder S., Pond C.D., Postma M.J., Pourmalek F., Prakash S., Prakash V., Prasad N., Prasad N.M., Purcell C., Qorbani M., Quintana H.K., Radfar A., Rafay A., Rafiei A., Rahimi K., Rahimi-Movaghar A., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Rahman M., Rahman M.A., Rahman S.U., Rai R.K., Raju S.B., Ram U., Rana S.M., Rankin Z., Rasella D., Rawaf D.L., Rawaf S., Ray S.E., Razo-García C.A., Reddy P., Reiner R.C., Reis C., Reitsma M.B., Remuzzi G., Renzaho A.M.N., Resnikoff S., Rezaei S., Rezai M.S., Ribeiro A.L., Rios Blancas M.J., Rivera J.A., Roever L., Ronfani L., Roshandel G., Rostami A., Roth G.A., Rothenbacher D., Roy A., Roy N., Ruhago G.M., Sabde Y.D., Sachdev P.S., Sadat N., Safdarian M., Safiri S., Sagar R., Sahebkar A., Sahraian M.A., Sajadi H.S., Salama J., Salamati P., De Freitas Saldanha R., Salimzadeh H., Salomon J.A., Samy A.M., Sanabria J.R., Sancheti P.K., Sanchez-Niño M.D., Santomauro D., Santos I.S., Santric Milicevic M.M., Sarker A.R., Sarrafzadegan N., Sartorius B., Satpathy M., Savic M., Sawhney M., Saxena S., Saylan M.I., Schaeffner E., Schmidhuber J., Schmidt M.I., Schneider I.J.C., Schumacher A.E., Schutte A.E., Schwebel D.C., Schwendicke F., Sekerija M., Sepanlou S.G., Servan-Mori E.E., Shafieesabet A., Shaikh M.A., Shakh-Nazarova M., Shams-Beyranvand M., Sharafi H., Sharif-Alhoseini M., Shariful Islam S.M., Sharma M., Sharma R., She J., Sheikh A., Shfare M.T., Shi P., Shields C., Shigematsu M., Shinohara Y., Shiri R., Shirkoohi R., Shiue I., Shrime M.G., Shukla S.R., Siabani S., Sigfusdottir I.D., Silberberg D.H., Silva D.A.S., Silva J.P., Silveira D.G.A., Singh J.A., Singh L., Singh N.P., Singh V., Sinha D.N., Sinke A.H., Sisay M., Skirbekk V., Sliwa K., Smith A., Soares Filho A.M., Sobaih B.H.A., Somai M., Soneji S., Soofi M., Sorensen R.J.D., Soriano J.B., Soyiri I.N., Sposato L.A., Sreeramareddy C.T., Srinivasan V., Stanaway J.D., Stathopoulou V., Steel N., Stein D.J., Stokes M.A., Sturua L., Sufiyan M.B., Suliankatchi R.A., Sunguya B.F., Sur P.J., Sykes B.L., Sylaja P.N., Szoeke C.E.I., Tabarés-Seisdedos R., Tadakamadla S.K., Tadesse A.H., Taffere G.R., Tandon N., Tariku A.T., Taveira N., Tehrani-Banihashemi A., Temam Shifa G., Temsah M.-H., Terkawi A.S., Tesema A.G., Tesfaye D.J., Tessema B., Thakur J.S., Thomas N., Thompson M.J., Tillmann T., To Q.G., Tobe-Gai R., Tonelli M., Topor-Madry R., Topouzis F., Torre A., Tortajada M., Tran B.X., Tran K.B., Tripathi A., Tripathy S.P., Troeger C., Truelsen T., Tsoi D., Tudor Car L., Tuem K.B., Tyrovolas S., Uchendu U.S., Ukwaja K.N., Ullah I., Updike R., Uthman O.A., Uzochukwu B.S.C., Valdez P.R., Van Boven J.F.M., Varughese S., Vasankari T., Venketasubramanian N., Violante F.S., Vladimirov S.K., Vlassov V.V., Vollset S.E., Vos T., Wagnew F., Waheed Y., Wallin M.T., Walson J.L., Wang Y., Wang Y.-P., Wassie M.M., Weaver M.R., Weiderpass E., Weintraub R.G., Weiss J., Weldegwergs K.G., Werdecker A., West T.E., Westerman R., White R.G., Whiteford H.A., Widecka J., Winkler A.S., Wiysonge C.S., Wolfe C.D.A., Wondimkun Y.A., Workicho A., Wyper G.M.A., Xavier D., Xu G., Yan L.L., Yano Y., Yaseri M., Yimer N.B., Yin P., Yip P., Yirsaw B.D., Yonemoto N., Yonga G., Yoon S.-J., Yotebieng M., Younis M.Z., Yu C., Zadnik V., Zaidi Z., El Sayed Zaki M., Zaman S.B., Zamani M., Zenebe Z.M., Zhou M., Zhu J., Zimsen S.R.M., Zipkin B., Zodpey S., Zuhlke L.J., Murray C.J.L., Lozano R., GBD 2016 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators (2018)
      Background A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or progress has faltered across and within countries ...
    • Primary extramammary invasive Paget's vulvar disease: What is the standard, what are the challenges and what is the future for radiotherapy? 

      Tolia M., Tsoukalas N., Sofoudis C., Giaginis C., Spyropoulou D., Kardamakis D., Kouloulias V., Kyrgias G. (2016)
      Background: Primary invasive Extramammary Paget's vulvar disease is a rare tumor that is challenging to control. Wide surgical excision represents the standard treatment approach for Primary invasive Extramammary Paget's ...
    • The prognostic significance of chromosome 17 abnormalities in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome treated with 5-azacytidine: Results from the Hellenic 5-azacytidine registry 

      Diamantopoulos P., Koumbi D., Kotsianidis I., Pappa V., Symeonidis A., Galanopoulos A., Zikos P., Papadaki H.A., Panayiotidis P., Dimou M., Hatzimichael E., Vassilopoulos G., Delimpasis S., Mparmparousi D., Papageorgiou S., Variami E., Kyrtsonis M.-C., Megalakaki A., Kotsopoulou M., Repousis P., Adamopoulos I., Kontopidou F., Christoulas D., Kourakli A., Tsokanas D., Konstantinos Papoutselis M., Kyriakakis G., Viniou N.-A., the Hellenic MDS study group (2019)
      In patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), the prognostic significance of chromosome 17 abnormalities has not yet been fully elucidated, except for isochromosome 17q that has been characterized as an intermediate ...
    • Trends in Primary Gallbladder Cancer Incidence and Incidence-based Mortality in the United States, 1973 to 2015 

      Low S.K., Giannis D., Thuong N.D., Nam N.H., Alshareef A., Koulas I., Geropoulos G., Moris D., Molmenti E.P., Huy N.T. (2022)
      Objectives: Primary gallbladder cancer (GBC) is the most common biliary tract cancer with poor survival despite aggressive treatment. This study aimed to investigate the trends of GBC incidence and incidence-based mortality ...