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Ομιλία στο 21ο Πανελλήνιο Πνευμονολογικό Συνέδριο http://www.livemedia.gr/video/31387

 Although a malignant pleural effusion is considered a manifestation of an advanced stage disease not amenable to curative resection in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, the same is not true in the case of the presence of malignant cells in the pleural cavity without an accompanying effusion, discovered incidentally during the operation with pleural […]

Histopathological grading (pdf) and Intratumoral invasion (pdf)

ΟΜΙΛΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΠΟΥ ΕΓΙΝΕ ΣΤΟ ΧΙΛΤΟΝ “ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΟΓΚΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΩΤΟΒΑΘΜΙΑ ΠΕΡΙΘΑΛΨΗ”

Staging is of the utmost importance in the evaluation of a patientwith non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) because it defines the actualextent of the disease. Accurate staging allows multidisciplinaryoncology teams to plan the best surgical or medical treatment and topredict patient prognosis. Based on the recommendation of theInternational Association for the Study of Lung Cancer […]

Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) isan adhesion molecule, member of the immunoglobulingene superfamily that seems to participate in the evolutionof the metastatic process. We investigated the significanceof baseline soluble ICAM-1 levels on the outcome ofpatients with small-cell lung cancer and whether solubleICAM-1 is a predictive marker for objective responseduring and after chemotherapy in patients with small-celllung […]

Purpose Deoxyribonucleic acid is wrapped around anoctamer of core histone proteins to form a nucleosome, thebasic structure of chromatin. Two main families ofenzymes maintain the equilibrium of acetyl groups addedto or removed from lysine residues. Histone deacetylases(HDACs) catalyze the removal of acetyl groups fromlysine residues in histone amino termini and non-histoneproteins also, leading to chromatin […]

Florou A¹, Gkiozos I², Syrigos K³1. Respiratory Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Department, Athens Medical School, “Evgenidion” Hospital2. Respiratory Physician, Oncology Unit G’PP, Athens, Medical School,“Sotiria” General  Hospital3. Associate Professor of Clinical Oncology, Head of Oncology Unit G’PP, Athens, Medical School, “Sotiria” General Hospital Introduction: Despite the established causal relationship between tobacco smoking and cancer […]