Listar por tema "Medical Oncology"

Aretaeus of cappadocia (ca lst-3rd century AD): Views on hepatic cancer

Tsoucalas G., Sgantzos M. (2016)

Aretaeus lived in an era when cancer was known to be a fatal disease. He had understood both liver's capacity to regenerate, and its vital role for the body's homeostasis, and proposed the treatment to confront hepatic ...

Behind the numbers and the panic of a viral pandemic: Fixed restrictive oncology guidance may jeopardize patients’ survival

Mauri D., Tzachanis D., Valachis A., Kamposioras K., Tolia M., Dambrosio M., Zarkavelis G., Gkoura S., Gazouli I., de Lorenzo F., Apostolidis K. (2020)

To protect cancer patients from COVID-19exposure, prioritization strategies are being implemented at global level. Measures include use of tele-health services, deferring elective surgeries, delaying non life-saving ...

Immunotherapy of Cancer: Developments and Reference Points, an Unorthodox Approach

Nikolaou M., Nikolaou G., Digklia A., Pontas C., Tsoukalas N., Kyrgias G., Tolia M. (2019)

Oncology is currently a sector of medical science with accelerated progress due to rapid technological development, the advancement in molecular biology, and the invention of many innovative therapies. Immunotherapy partially ...

Mentoring young oncologists

Kappas K. (2021)

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A revised international prognostic score system for Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

Kastritis E., Morel P., Duhamel A., Gavriatopoulou M., Kyrtsonis M.C., Durot E., Symeonidis A., Laribi K., Hatjiharissi E., Ysebaert L., Vassou A., Giannakoulas N., Merlini G., Repousis P., Varettoni M., Michalis E., Hivert B., Michail M., Katodritou E., Terpos E., Leblond V., Dimopoulos M.A. (2019)

A staging system was developed a decade ago for patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM), however, since then WM treatments have changed. A revised staging system could better capture prognosis of WM patients in ...