Publications by authors named "A Alacacioglu"
Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of the quantitative parameters of the tumoral and peritumoral regions in prediction of pathological subtypes and 1-year survival in patients with esophageal carcinoma.
Materials And Methods: A total of 103 patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and adenocarcinoma (AC) and in whom fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) was performed were included in the study. One-year progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival times of all patients were noted.
Aims: Individuals with a higher De Ritis ratio (aspartate transaminase/alanine transaminase) and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) have an inferior survival in varied malignancies. To our knowledge, the prognostic potential of the De Ritis ratio and NLR to predict the survival in nonmetastatic glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients remains unclear. In this study, we aimed to explore the prognostic power of the De Ritis ratio and NLR in patients with nonmetastatic glioblastoma multiforme.
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- Colorectal cancer is a major global health issue, and in Turkey, a study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of second-line treatments for patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.
- The research involved a retrospective analysis of 588 patient records from 28 centers, categorizing them by the type of biological treatments received: anti-EGFR and anti-VEGF.
- Results showed no significant differences in overall survival or progression-free survival among the different treatment groups, indicating similar effectiveness of the biological agents in second-line treatments.
Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the contribution of 18Fluorine-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (18F-FDG PET) radiomic data obtained from both the tumoral and peritumoral area in predicting pathological complete response (pCR) in patients with locally advanced breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).
Methods: Female patients with a diagnosis of invasive ductal carcinoma who received NAC were evaluated retrospectively. The volume of interest (VOI) of the primary tumor (VOI-) was manually segmented, then a voxel-thick VOI was added around VOI- to define the peritumoral area (VOI-).