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Brief Overview:
The remarkable progress in developing curative therapy for childhood cancer over the last 4 to 5 decades has increased awareness of the serious cancer treatment-related late effects experienced by long-term survivors such as premature mortality early deaths, second primary cancers,
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors being following at St. Jude within the SJLIFE protocol cohort who were treated with TRT will be recruited to complete a comprehensive neurocognitive evaluation, overnight polysomnography evaluation, brain and neck MRI, cervical strength testing, and serum biomarkers
Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic, relapsing and remitting, inflammatory disorder of the GI tract. The mainstay of medical therapy is comprised of 5-aminosalicylates, corticosteroids, immunomodulators such as mercaptopurine and MTX, and biologics such as infliximab and
The French public healthcare system perspective developed a unique SNIIR-AM (interregimens National Information Health Insurance system.) data base that contains up to 18 TeraOctet of medical consumption data (consultations, exams and drug prescriptions and hospitalization, yes/no). Its main
High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation is the current standard of care for patients with chemosensitive relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma and aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and is an established effective therapy for patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma. Disease relapse
This is a phase II, open-label, multicenter study of Iodine-131 Anti-B1 Antibody consolidation for 20 patients with diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) achieving a partial response (PR), an unconfirmed complete response (CRu), or complete response (CR) following 6-8 cycles of
This is a phase II, open-label, multicenter study of the efficacy and safety sequential administration of cycolophosphamide, vacristine, and prednisone (CVP) x6 cycles followed by tositumomab and iodine I 131 tositumomab for previously untreated subjects with low-grade Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL).
This is a Phase II randomized, controlled, two-arm, open-label, multicenter study comparing the safety and efficacy of tositumomab and iodine I 131 tositumomab to tositumomab for the treatment of chemotherapy-relapsed or refractory low-grade or transformed low-grade B-cell NHL.
Treatment Arm A:
Disease free survival of Hodgkin's disease (HD) patients has improved dramatically over the past few decades. With the dramatic advance in patient's survival, the prevention and treatment of long-term adverse effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy has become a major focus of interest. HD survivors
Background:
Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is an aggressive lymphoproliferative disorder caused by an infection with the human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type-1 (HTLV-1).
ATL is characterized by rapidly rising peripheral blood leukemia cell counts, lymphadenopathy, lytic bone lesions,
Background:
The NCI Surgery Branch
Multiple risk factors for breast cancer have been identified, including family history, endocrine background, histologic changes in breast tissue, cancer in one breast, radiation exposure, obesity, and others. The histologic phenotypes of breast carcinogenesis