Neoplasm Grading

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 111-In-capromab pendetide imaging using hybrid-γ camera-computer tomography technology is not reliable in detecting seminal vesicle invasion in patients with prostate cancer. 
  • A Histomorphologic Grading System That Predicts Overall Survival in Diffuse Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma With Epithelioid Subtype. 
  • A multi-center population-based case-control study of ovarian cancer in African-American women: the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES). 
  • A phase 2 multimodality trial of docetaxel/prednisone with sunitinib followed by salvage radiation therapy in men with PSA recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy. 
  • A phase I trial of the farnesyl transferase inhibitor, SCH 66336, with temozolomide for patients with malignant glioma. 
  • A population-based comparison of adenocarcinoma of the large and small intestine: insights into a rare disease. 
  • A pretreatment nomogram for prediction of biochemical failure after primary cryoablation of the prostate. 
  • A signature of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity and stromal activation in primary tumor modulates late recurrence in breast cancer independent of disease subtype. 
  • ABCA transporter gene expression and poor outcome in epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • ACR appropriateness criteria post-treatment follow-up of renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Active surveillance for prostate cancer: can we modernize contemporary protocols to improve patient selection and outcomes in the focal therapy era? 
  • Adjuvant radiotherapy in the treatment of invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas: an analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results registry. 
  • African-American men with low-grade prostate cancer have higher tumor burdens: results from the Duke Prostate Center. 
  • Alcohol intake increases high-grade prostate cancer risk among men taking dutasteride in the REDUCE trial. 
  • Analysis of perioperative radiation therapy in the surgical treatment of primary and recurrent retroperitoneal sarcoma. 
  • Anatomic tumor location influences the success of contemporary limb-sparing surgery and radiation among adults with soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities. 
  • Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values of the Benign Central Zone of the Prostate: Comparison With Low- and High-Grade Prostate Cancer. 
  • Assessment of intra-observer variability in measurement of high-grade brain tumors. 
  • Assessment of multimodality therapy use for extremity sarcoma in the United States. 
  • Association between percentage of tumor involvement and Gleason score upgrading in low-risk prostate cancer. 
  • Association between preoperative erectile dysfunction and prostate cancer features--an analysis from the Duke Prostate Center Database. 
  • Biologic determinants of tumor recurrence in stage II colon cancer: validation study of the 12-gene recurrence score in cancer and leukemia group B (CALGB) 9581. 
  • Cabozantinib in genitourinary malignancies. 
  • Can proliferation biomarkers reliably predict recurrence in World Health Organization 2003 defined endometrial stromal sarcoma, low grade? 
  • Carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater: patterns of failure following resection and benefit of chemoradiotherapy. 
  • Chemotherapy-related amenorrhea after adjuvant paclitaxel-trastuzumab (APT trial). 
  • Circulating Tumor Cells in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Clinical, molecular, and genetic correlates of lymphatic spread in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas. 
  • Conditional Survival After Cytoreductive Surgery with Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Low- and High-Grade Appendiceal Primaries. 
  • Cost analysis of colposcopy for abnormal cytology in post-treatment surveillance for cervical cancer. 
  • Cost comparison of radiation treatment options after lumpectomy for breast cancer. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing to target PARP inhibitor use in platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. 
  • Detection of prostate cancer with multiparametric MRI (mpMRI): effect of dedicated reader education on accuracy and confidence of index and anterior cancer diagnosis. 
  • Development and clinical validation of a real-time PCR assay for PITX2 DNA methylation to predict prostate-specific antigen recurrence in prostate cancer patients following radical prostatectomy. 
  • Differentially Expressed miRNAs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Target Genes in the Genetic Information Processing and Metabolism Pathways. 
  • Discrete improvement in racial disparity in survival among patients with stage IV colorectal cancer: a 21-year population-based analysis. 
  • Distinctions in Breast Tumor Recurrence Patterns Post-Therapy among Racially Distinct Populations. 
  • Do all men with pathological Gleason score 8-10 prostate cancer have poor outcomes? Results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Does adjuvant chemotherapy improve survival for women with early-stage uterine leiomyosarcoma? 
  • Does age predict outcome in patients with inflammatory breast cancer? 
  • Does body mass index have an impact on the rate and location of positive surgical margins following robot assisted radical prostatectomy? 
  • ESO-ESMO 2nd international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer (ABC2)†. 
  • Effects of Cancer Stage and Treatment Differences on Racial Disparities in Survival From Colon Cancer: A United States Population-Based Study. 
  • Efficiency of colorectal cancer care among veterans: analysis of treatment wait times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. 
  • Evaluation of Adjuvant Radiation Therapy for Resected Gallbladder Carcinoma: A Multi-institutional Experience. 
  • Evidence of a genetic link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer. 
  • Examination of national lymph node evaluation practices for adult extremity soft tissue sarcoma. 
  • Exploratory evaluation of MR permeability with 18F-FDG PET mapping in pediatric brain tumors: a report from the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. 
  • Fibrosarcoma-like lipomatous neoplasm: a reappraisal of so-called spindle cell liposarcoma defining a unique lipomatous tumor unrelated to other liposarcomas. 
  • Frequency of "incidental" serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC) in women without a history of or genetic risk factor for high-grade serous carcinoma: A six-year study. 
  • Frequent ATRX, CIC, FUBP1 and IDH1 mutations refine the classification of malignant gliomas. 
  • Genetic variants in the TEP1 gene are associated with prostate cancer risk and recurrence. 
  • Gleason Grading, Biochemical Failure, and Prostate Cancer-Specific Death. 
  • Grading of well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors is improved by the inclusion of both Ki67 proliferative index and mitotic rate. 
  • Histologic grade as prognostic indicator for mucoepidermoid carcinoma: a population-level analysis of 2400 patients. 
  • Histologic grading of the extent of residual carcinoma following neoadjuvant chemoradiation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a predictor for patient outcome. 
  • Hormone naïve prostate cancer: predicting and maximizing response intervals. 
  • How to select the right patients for focal therapy of prostate cancer? 
  • Identification and Functional Validation of Reciprocal microRNA-mRNA Pairings in African American Prostate Cancer Disparities. 
  • Impact of NADiA ProsVue PSA slope on secondary treatment decisions after radical prostatectomy. 
  • Impact of health-related quality of life and fatigue on survival of recurrent high-grade glioma patients. 
  • Impact of pretransplantation conditioning regimens on outcomes of allogeneic transplantation for chemotherapy-unresponsive diffuse large B cell lymphoma and grade III follicular lymphoma. 
  • Impact of primary Gleason grade on risk stratification for Gleason score 7 prostate cancers. 
  • Induction of the unfolded protein response drives enhanced metabolism and chemoresistance in glioma cells. 
  • Interobserver Reproducibility of the PI-RADS Version 2 Lexicon: A Multicenter Study of Six Experienced Prostate Radiologists. 
  • Is clinical stage T2c prostate cancer an intermediate- or high-risk disease? 
  • Large-scale evaluation of common variation in regulatory T cell-related genes and ovarian cancer outcome. 
  • Long-term oncological outcomes of men undergoing radical prostatectomy with preoperative prostate-specific antigen <2.5 ng/ml and 2.5-4 ng/ml. 
  • Long-term results of an RTOG Phase II trial (00-19) of external-beam radiation therapy combined with permanent source brachytherapy for intermediate-risk clinically localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate. 
  • Longitudinal monitoring of EGFR mutations in plasma predicts outcomes of NSCLC patients treated with EGFR TKIs: Korean Lung Cancer Consortium (KLCC-12-02). 
  • Low-risk and very-low-risk prostate cancer: is there a role for focal therapy in the era of active surveillance? Yes, the two approaches complement each other. 
  • Metabolic syndrome-like components and prostate cancer risk: results from the Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer Events (REDUCE) study. 
  • Metformin does not affect risk of biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy: results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Metformin use and risk of prostate cancer: results from the REDUCE study. 
  • Minimally invasive surgery versus laparotomy in women with high grade endometrial cancer: a multi-site study performed at high volume cancer centers. 
  • Molecular investigation of lymph nodes in colon cancer patients using one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA): a new road to better staging? 
  • Multiregional Radiogenomic Assessment of Prostate Microenvironments with Multiparametric MR Imaging and DNA Whole-Exome Sequencing of Prostate Glands with Adenocarcinoma. 
  • Mutations in IDH1, IDH2, and in the TERT promoter define clinically distinct subgroups of adult malignant gliomas. 
  • Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Obesity is associated with worse overall survival in women with low-grade papillary serous epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Obesity, weight gain, and ovarian cancer risk in African American women. 
  • Ototoxicity in children with high-risk neuroblastoma: prevalence, risk factors, and concordance of grading scales--a report from the Children's Oncology Group. 
  • Phase 1 dose escalation trial of the safety and pharmacokinetics of cabozantinib concurrent with temozolomide and radiotherapy or temozolomide after radiotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with high-grade gliomas. 
  • Phase I trial of capecitabine rapidly disintegrating tablets and concomitant radiation therapy in children with newly diagnosed brainstem gliomas and high-grade gliomas. 
  • Phase I/II dose-escalation study of PI3K inhibitors pilaralisib or voxtalisib in combination with letrozole in patients with hormone-receptor-positive and HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer refractory to a non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor. 
  • Phase II study of Gleevec® plus hydroxyurea (HU) in adults with progressive or recurrent meningioma. 
  • Phase II study of single-agent orteronel (TAK-700) in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and rising prostate-specific antigen. 
  • Phase III trial of selenium to prevent prostate cancer in men with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia: SWOG S9917. 
  • Positive surgical margins in radical prostatectomy patients do not predict long-term oncological outcomes: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) cohort. 
  • Predicting biopsy-proven prostate cancer recurrence following cryosurgery. 
  • Predicting bone scan positivity after biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy in both hormone-naive men and patients receiving androgen-deprivation therapy: results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Predicting bone scan positivity in non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. 
  • Preoperative or postoperative radiotherapy versus surgery alone for retroperitoneal sarcoma: a case-control, propensity score-matched analysis of a nationwide clinical oncology database. 
  • Preoperative predictors of pathologic stage T2a and pathologic Gleason score ≤ 6 in men with clinical low-risk prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy: reference for active surveillance. 
  • Preoperative predictors of pathologic stage T2a in low-risk prostate cancer: implications for focal therapy. 
  • Preoperative weight change and risk of adverse outcome following radical prostatectomy: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database. 
  • Presentation and management of gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the duodenum: a multi-institutional analysis. 
  • Primary Cryotherapy for High-Grade Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Oncologic and Functional Outcomes from the COLD Registry. 
  • Principles of T2 *-weighted dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI technique in brain tumor imaging. 
  • Profiling Hsp90 differential expression and the molecular effects of the Hsp90 inhibitor IPI-504 in high-grade glioma models. 
  • Prognostic marker analysis in pediatric intracranial ependymomas. 
  • Prognostic significance of differential expression of angiogenic genes in women with high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma. 
  • Prognostic utility of cell cycle progression score in men with prostate cancer after primary external beam radiation therapy. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen level, stage or Gleason score: which is best for predicting outcomes after radical prostatectomy, and does it vary by the outcome being measured? Results from Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database. 
  • Rising PSA Level in an Anxious Postprostatectomy Patient. 
  • Salvage Radiation Therapy Dose Response for Biochemical Failure of Prostate Cancer After Prostatectomy-A Multi-Institutional Observational Study. 
  • Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration is positively associated with rate of disease reclassification on subsequent active surveillance prostate biopsy in men with low PSA density. 
  • Significance of diaphragmatic resections and thoracic chemoperfusion on outcomes of peritoneal surface disease treated with cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). 
  • Smoking and risk of low- and high-grade prostate cancer: results from the REDUCE study. 
  • Surgical staging for endometrial cancer in the elderly - is there a role for lymphadenectomy? 
  • Surgical treatment and prognosis in patients with high-grade soft tissue malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the extremities. 
  • Survival and low-grade glioma: the emergence of genetic information. 
  • TERT promoter mutations contribute to IDH mutations in predicting differential responses to adjuvant therapies in WHO grade II and III diffuse gliomas. 
  • The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Pleura: Advances since the 2004 Classification. 
  • The dynamics of death in prostate cancer. 
  • The effect of the setting of a positive surgical margin in soft tissue sarcoma. 
  • The high-grade (WHO G3) pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor category is morphologically and biologically heterogenous and includes both well differentiated and poorly differentiated neoplasms. 
  • The impact of lymph node disease in extremity soft-tissue sarcomas: a population-based analysis. 
  • The impact of race and partner status on patterns of care and survival in young women with early-stage cervical cancer. 
  • The influence of diabetes severity on receipt of guideline-concordant treatment for breast cancer. 
  • The influence of radiation modality and lymph node dissection on survival in early-stage endometrial cancer. 
  • The use of adjuvant radiotherapy in elderly patients with early-stage breast cancer: changes in practice patterns after publication of Cancer and Leukemia Group B 9343. 
  • The use of radiation therapy in localized high-grade soft tissue sarcoma and potential impact on survival. 
  • Transcript expression in endometrial cancers from Black and White patients. 
  • Trends in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. 
  • Uterine Sarcoma, Version 1.2016: Featured Updates to the NCCN Guidelines. 
  • Venetoclax plus rituximab in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a phase 1b study. 
  • [Femur reconstruction using combined autologous fibula transfer and humeral allograft]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Koontz, Bridget Fey, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Yan, Hai, Henry S. Friedman Professor of Neuro-Oncology in the School of Medicine, Pathology
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology