List of works by Vasilis Karavasilis

90-Days mortality rate in patients treated within the context of a phase-I trial: how should we identify patients who should not go on trial?

scientific article published on 10 June 2008

AMALTHEA: Prospective, Single-Arm Study of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) Evaluating Efficacy and Safety of First-Line FOLFIRI + Aflibercept for 6 Months Followed by Aflibercept Maintenance in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Canc

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Abiraterone and novel antiandrogens: overcoming castration resistance in prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

Acquired ichthyosis triggered by an osseous hemangiopericytoma: a case report and review of the literature.

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

Advances in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma: focus on eribulin.

scientific article published in February 2018

Angiogenesis in cancer of unknown primary: clinicopathological study of CD34, VEGF and TSP-1

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Assessing the clinical value of microRNAs in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded liposarcoma tissues: Overexpressed miR-155 is an indicator of poor prognosis.

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Chest drainage systems in use.

scientific article published on March 2015

Clinical benefit of second-line palliative chemotherapy in advanced soft-tissue sarcoma.

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Clinicopathologic study of vascular endothelial growth factor, thrombospondin-1, and microvessel density assessed by CD34 in patients with stage III ovarian carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Clinicopathological study of the expression of hsp27, pS2, cathepsin D and metallothionein in primary invasive breast cancer.

scientific article published on April 2003

Could Somatostatin Enhance the Outcomes of Chemotherapeutic Treatment in SCLC?

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Defining the role of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in early stage non-small cell lung cancer.

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Determination of EGFR and KRAS mutational status in Greek non-small-cell lung cancer patients

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Dissemination of linezolid-dependent, linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates belonging to CC5 in German hospitals.

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Doubling time of serum CA125 is an independent prognostic factor for survival in patients with ovarian cancer relapsing after first-line chemotherapy.

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

Effects of TP53 and PIK3CA mutations in early breast cancer: a matter of co-mutation and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.

scientific article published on July 2016

Enhancement of Intratumoral Chemotherapy with Cisplatin with or without Microwave Ablation and Lipiodol. Future Concept for Local Treatment in Lung Cancer.

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Expression and prognostic significance of VEGF and mTOR pathway proteins in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients: a prognostic immunohistochemical profile for kidney cancer patients.

scientific article published on 9 July 2016

Expression of DNA repair and replication genes in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): a role for thymidylate synthetase (TYMS).

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Feasibility study and pharmacokinetics of low-dose paclitaxel in cancer patients with severe hepatic dysfunction

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Heimlich valve and pneumothorax

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Identification of factors limiting patient recruitment into phase I trials: a study from the Royal Marsden Hospital

scientific article published on 24 March 2008

Immunohistochemical expression of extracellular matrix components tenascin, fibronectin, collagen type IV and laminin in breast cancer: their prognostic value and role in tumour invasion and progression

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Interaction pharmacokinetics of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (Caelyx) on coadministration with paclitaxel or docetaxel.

scientific article published on 17 January 2004

Invasive thymoma: a clinical study of 23 cases

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Lapatinib with whole brain radiotherapy in patients with brain metastases from breast and non-small cell lung cancer: a phase II study of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG).

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Leiomyosarcoma as a second metachronous malignant neoplasm following colon adenocarcinoma. A case report and review of the literature.

scientific article published on January 2001

Matrix metalloproteinases in carcinoma of unknown primary

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Metastatic breast carcinoma confined to bone: portrait of a clinical entity

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Minimally invasive procedures

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Novel therapeutic approaches in chondrosarcoma.

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Oxaliplatin (Eloxatin) plus irinotecan combination chemotherapy found effective in refractory metastatic insular thyroid carcinoma.

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Pacemaker insertion

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Phase II study of panitumumab combined with capecitabine and oxaliplatin as first-line treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer patients: clinical results including extended tumor genotyping

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Phase II, two-stage, single-arm trial of the histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) romidepsin in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Pneumothorax from diagnosis to treatment, hands on course: Part II.

scientific article published on March 2015

Pneumothorax: an up to date "introduction".

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Prognostic factors for long term survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published on May 2016

Pseudomonas fluorescens infections in clinical practice.

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Randomized Phase II trial of nintedanib, afatinib and sequential combination in castration-resistant prostate cancer

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Randomized phase III clinical trial comparing the combination of capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CAPOX) with the combination of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin (modified FOLFOX6) as adjuvant therapy in patients with operated high-risk stage

scientific article published on 10 May 2015

Revisiting bleomycin from pathophysiology to safe clinical use.

scientific article published on 09 January 2013

Safety and Tolerability of Anthracycline-Containing Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients.

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Significant clinical benefit of first-line palliative chemotherapy in advanced soft-tissue sarcoma: retrospective analysis and identification of prognostic factors in 488 patients.

scientific article published in April 2008

Topoisomerase I but not thymidylate synthase is associated with improved outcome in patients with resected colorectal cancer treated with irinotecan containing adjuvant chemotherapy

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Treatment of relapsed urothelial bladder cancer with vinflunine: real-world evidence by the Hellenic Genitourinary Cancer Group

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Two cycles of adjuvant carboplatin in stage I seminoma: 8-year experience by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HECOG).

scientific article published on 26 September 2015

Use of proteins as biomarkers and their role in carcinogenesis.

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Weekly docetaxel in minimally pretreated cancer patients: a dose-escalation study focused on feasibility and cumulative toxicity of long-term administration

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Wide dissemination of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in Greece is associated with a linezolid-dependent ST22 clone.

scientific article published on 23 February 2015