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BMC Cancer

Ausgabe 1/2004

Inhalt (98 Artikel)

Open Access Debate

Iron: a target for the management of Kaposi's sarcoma?

Thierry Simonart

Open Access Research article

Sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer: is it already a standard of care? A survey of current practice in an Italian region

Giorgio Zavagno, Gian Luca De Salvo, Dario Casara, Paola Del Bianco, Domenico Rubello, Fabrizio Meggiolaro, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, Mariaelena Pierobon, Mario Lise

Open Access Case report

Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET) of the kidney: a case report

Giorgio Pomara, Francesco Cappello, Maria G Cuttano, Francesca Rappa, Girolamo Morelli, Pierantonio Mancini, Cesare Selli

Open Access Research article

Genome wide in silico SNP-tumor association analysis

Ping Qiu, Luquan Wang, Mitch Kostich, Wei Ding, Jason S Simon, Jonathan R Greene

Open Access Research article

Chromosomal amplifications, 3q gain and deletions of 2q33-q37 are the frequent genetic changes in cervical carcinoma

Pulivarthi H Rao, Hugo Arias-Pulido, Xin-Yan Lu, Charles P Harris, Hernan Vargas, Fang F Zhang, Gopeshwar Narayan, Achim Schneider, Mary Beth Terry, Vundavalli VVS Murty

Open Access Research article

HFE C282Y and H63D in adults with malignancies in a community medical oncology practice

James C Barton, Luigi F Bertoli, Ronald T Acton

Open Access Case report

Actinomycosis of the parotid masquerading as malignant neoplasm.

Bipin T Varghese, Paul Sebastian, K Ramachandran, Manoj Pandey

Open Access Research article

Absence of annexin I expression in B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and cell lines

Jamboor K Vishwanatha, Eric Salazar, Velliyur K Gopalakrishnan

Open Access Research article

Kin-cohort estimates for familial breast cancer risk in relation to variants in DNA base excision repair, BRCA1 interacting and growth factor genes

Alice J Sigurdson, Michael Hauptmann, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bruce H Alexander, Michele Morin Doody, Joni L Rutter, Jeffery P Struewing

Open Access Research article

Thymidylate synthetase mRNA levels are increased in liver metastases of colorectal cancer patients resistant to fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy

Massimo Libra, Patrick M Navolanic, Renato Talamini, Erica Cecchin, Franca Sartor, Salvatore Tumolo, Sara Masier, Salvatore Travali, Mauro Boiocchi, Giuseppe Toffoli

Open Access Research article

Core I gene is overexpressed in Hürthle and non-Hürthle cell microfollicular adenomas and follicular carcinomas of the thyroid

Valdemar Máximo, Ana Preto, Ana Crespo, Ana Sofia Rocha, José Carlos Machado, Paula Soares, Manuel Sobrinho-Simões

Open Access Research article

Modulation of human multidrug-resistance MDR-1 gene by natural curcuminoids

Pornngarm Limtrakul, Songyot Anuchapreeda, Duang Buddhasukh

Open Access Research article

A retrospective study on the use of post-operative colonoscopy following potentially curative surgery for colorectal cancer in a Canadian province

Robert J Hilsden, Heather E Bryant, Lloyd R Sutherland, Penny MA Brasher, Anthony LA Fields

Open Access Research article

Colon cancer controls versus population controls in case-control studies of occupational risk factors

Linda Kaerlev, Elsebeth Lynge, Svend Sabroe, Jorn Olsen

Open Access Case report

Squamous cell carcinoma developing in the scar of Fournier's gangrene – Case report

Chintamani, Manu Shankar, Vinay Singhal, JP Singh, Anju Bansal, Sunita Saxena

Open Access Research article

Characterization of human mesothelin transcripts in ovarian and pancreatic cancer

Zhanat E Muminova, Theresa V Strong, Denise R Shaw

Open Access Research article

Microarray analysis in clinical oncology: pre-clinical optimization using needle core biopsies from xenograft tumors

Elizabeth M Goley, Soni J Anderson, Cynthia Ménard, Eric Chuang, Xing Lü, Philip J Tofilon, Kevin Camphausen

Open Access Research article

Does knowledge of cancer diagnosis affect quality of life? A methodological challenge

Ali Montazeri, David J Hole, Robert Milroy, James McEwen, Charles R Gillis

Open Access Research article

Medical visits for chemotherapy and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: a survey of the impact on patient time and activities

Barry V Fortner, Kurt Tauer, Ling Zhu, Theodore A Okon, Kelley Moore, Davis Templeton, Lee Schwartzberg

Open Access Research article

A novel approach in the treatment of neuroendocrine gastrointestinal tumors: Additive antiproliferative effects of interferon-γ and meta-iodobenzylguanidine

Michael Höpfner, Andreas P Sutter, Alexander Huether, Gudrun Ahnert-Hilger, Hans Scherübl

Open Access Research article

Association of HLA Class I and Class II genes with bcr-abl transcripts in leukemia patients with t(9;22) (q34;q11)

Shailendra Mundhada, Rajyalakshmi Luthra, Pedro Cano

Open Access Research article

DRF 3188 a novel semi-synthetic analog of andrographolide: cellular response to MCF 7 breast cancer cells

Chitkala Satyanarayana, Dhanavanthri S Deevi, R Rajagopalan, Nanduri Srinivas, Sriram Rajagopal

Open Access Research article

Overexpression of the duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) by NSCLC tumor cells results in increased tumor necrosis

Christina L Addison, John A Belperio, Marie D Burdick, Robert M Strieter

Open Access Research article

Serum leptin concentration and advanced gastrointestinal cancers: a case controlled study

F Fusun Bolukbas, Hasan Kilic, Cengiz Bolukbas, Mahmut Gumus, Mehmet Horoz, Nazım S Turhal, Birsel Kavakli

Open Access Research article

Control region mutations and the 'common deletion' are frequent in the mitochondrial DNA of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Christian C Abnet, Konrad Huppi, Ana Carrera, David Armistead, Keith McKenney, Nan Hu, Ze-Zong Tang, Philip R Taylor, Sanford M Dawsey

Open Access Research article

Is the gene encoding Chibby implicated as a tumour suppressor in colorectal cancer ?

Sophie Gad, David Teboul, Astrid Lièvre, Nicolas Goasguen, Anne Berger, Philippe Beaune, Pierre Laurent-Puig

Open Access Study protocol

Phase II study of neoadjuvant 5-FU + leucovorin + CPT-11 in patients with resectable liver metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma

Oliver F Bathe, Scot Dowden, Francis Sutherland, Elijah Dixon, Charles Butts, David Bigam, Barb Walley, Dean Ruether, Scott Ernst

Open Access Research article

BAK overexpression mediates p53-independent apoptosis inducing effects on human gastric cancer cells

Qiang-Song Tong, Li-Duan Zheng, Liang Wang, Jun Liu, Wei Qian

Open Access Research article

Inhibition of macrophage migration inhibitory factor decreases proliferation and cytokine expression in bladder cancer cells

Katherine L Meyer-Siegler, Erica C Leifheit, Pedro L Vera

Open Access Research article

The influence of tumor size and environment on gene expression in commonly used human tumor lines

Michael A Gieseg, Michael Z Man, Nicholas A Gorski, Steven J Madore, Eric P Kaldjian, Wilbur R Leopold

Open Access Research article

Phase I/II study of first-line irinotecan combined with 5-fluorouracil and folinic acid Mayo Clinic schedule in patients with advanced colorectal cancer

Thomas Kuehr, Paul Ruff, Bernardo L Rapoport, Stephen Falk, Francis Daniel, Conrad Jacobs, Neville Davidson, Josef Thaler, Blandine Boussard, James Carmichael

Open Access Research article

Atypical glandular cells in conventional cervical smears: Incidence and follow-up

René Scheiden, Catherine Wagener, Ulrich Knolle, Walter Dippel, Catherine Capesius

Open Access Research article

Irinotecan plus folinic acid/continuous 5-fluorouracil as simplified bimonthly FOLFIRI regimen for first-line therapy of metastatic colorectal cancer

Andreas Teufel, Silke Steinmann, Jürgen Siebler, Christiane Zanke, Herbert Hohl, Bernd Adami, M Schroeder, O Klein, Thomas Höhler, Peter R Galle, Michael Heike, Markus Moehler

Open Access Research article

Identification of astrocytoma associated genes including cell surface markers

Kathy Boon, Jennifer B Edwards, Charles G Eberhart, Gregory J Riggins

Open Access Research article

Stimulation of MMP-11 (stromelysin-3) expression in mouse fibroblasts by cytokines, collagen and co-culture with human breast cancer cell lines

Saxon Selvey, Larisa M Haupt, Erik W Thompson, Klaus I Matthaei, Michael G Irving, Lyn R Griffiths

Open Access Case report

Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid metastasizing to liver: case report

K Harish, SR Mangala Gouri

Open Access Research article

Elevated expression of MMP-13 and TIMP-1 in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas may reflect increased tumor invasiveness

Nil Culhaci, Kubilay Metin, Eray Copcu, Emel Dikicioglu

Open Access Research article

Hedgehog-interacting protein is highly expressed in endothelial cells but down-regulated during angiogenesis and in several human tumors

Catherine L Olsen, Pin-Pin Hsu, Jens Glienke, Gabor M Rubanyi, Alan R Brooks

Open Access Research article

The oncogenic fusion protein RUNX1-CBFA2T1 supports proliferation and inhibits senescence in t(8;21)-positive leukaemic cells

Natalia Martinez, Bettina Drescher, Heidemarie Riehle, Claire Cullmann, Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Arnold Ganser, Gerhard Heil, Alfred Nordheim, Jürgen Krauter, Olaf Heidenreich

Open Access Research article

Genome-wide array comparative genomic hybridization analysis reveals distinct amplifications in osteosarcoma

Tsz-Kwong Man, Xin-Yan Lu, Kim Jaeweon, Laszlo Perlaky, Charles P Harris, Shishir Shah, Marc Ladanyi, Richard Gorlick, Ching C Lau, Pulivarthi H Rao

Open Access Research article

DMBT1 expression is down-regulated in breast cancer

P Braidotti, PG Nuciforo, J Mollenhauer, A Poustka, C Pellegrini, A Moro, G Bulfamante, G Coggi, S Bosari, GG Pietra

Open Access Research article

Ancestry reported by white adults with cutaneous melanoma and control subjects in central Alabama

Ronald T Acton, Ellen H Barton, William W Hollowell, Amy L Dreibelbis, Rodney CP Go, James C Barton

Open Access Research article

Is drug-induced toxicity a good predictor of response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer? -A prospective clinical study

Chintamani, Vinay Singhal, JP Singh, Ashima Lyall, Sunita Saxena, Anju Bansal

Open Access Research article

Frequency of cancer in children residing in Mexico City and treated in the hospitals of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (1996–2001)

Servando Juárez-Ocaña, Guadalupe González-Miranda, Juan Manuel Mejía-Aranguré, Mario Enrique Rendón-Macías, María del Carmen Martínez-García, Arturo Fajardo-Gutiérrez

Open Access Research article

Sensitization of interferon-γ induced apoptosis in human osteosarcoma cells by extracellular S100A4

Kjetil Boye Pedersen, Kristin Andersen, Øystein Fodstad, Gunhild Mari Mælandsmo

Open Access Research article

The impact of surgery and mild hyperthermia on tumor response and angioneogenesis of malignant melanoma in a rat perfusion model

Joerg Pelz, Marco Mollwitz, Christian Stremmel, Jonas Goehl, Arno Dimmler, Werner Hohenberger, Thomas Meyer

Open Access Research article

Opposite role of Bax and BCL-2 in the anti-tumoral responses of the immune system

Gwenola Bougras, Pierre-François Cartron, Fabien Gautier, Stéphane Martin, Marité LeCabellec, Khaled Meflah, Marc Gregoire, François M Vallette

Open Access Research article

No evidence for involvement of SDHD in neuroblastoma pathogenesis

Katleen De Preter, Jo Vandesompele, Jasmien Hoebeeck, Caroline Vandenbroecke, Jöel Smet, Annick Nuyts, Geneviève Laureys, Valérie Combaret, Nadine Van Roy, Frank Roels, Rudy Van Coster, Marleen Praet, Anne De Paepe, Frank Speleman

Open Access Research article

Microarray analysis reveals genetic pathways modulated by tipifarnib in acute myeloid leukemia

Mitch Raponi, Robert T Belly, Judith E Karp, Jeffrey E Lancet, David Atkins, Yixin Wang

Open Access Research article

Protein p16 as a marker of dysplastic and neoplastic alterations in cervical epithelial cells

Galina Volgareva, Larisa Zavalishina, Yulia Andreeva, Georgy Frank, Ella Krutikova, Darya Golovina, Alexander Bliev, Dimitry Spitkovsky, Valeriya Ermilova, Fjodor Kisseljov

Open Access Research article

HER2 expression in cervical cancer as a potential therapeutic target

Alma Chavez-Blanco, Victor Perez-Sanchez, Aurora Gonzalez-Fierro, Teresa Vela-Chavez, Myrna Candelaria, Lucely Cetina, Silvia Vidal, Alfonso Dueñas-Gonzalez

Open Access Research article

Survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer: twenty-year data from two SEER registries

Patricia Tai, Edward Yu, Vincent Vinh-Hung, Gábor Cserni, Georges Vlastos

Open Access Research article

Characterization of a novel large deletion and single point mutations in the BRCA1gene in a Greek cohort of families with suspected hereditary breast cancer

Ioulia Belogianni, Angela Apessos, Markos Mihalatos, Evangelia Razi, Stefanos Labropoulos, Andreas Petounis, Vasiliki Gaki, Antonios Keramopoulos, Nikos Pandis, Kyriacos Kyriacou, Andreas Hadjisavvas, Paris Kosmidis, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Georgios Nasioulas

Open Access Research article

B-Raf specific antibody responses in melanoma patients

Joachim Fensterle, Jürgen C Becker, Tamara Potapenko, Veronika Heimbach, Claudia S Vetter, Eva B Bröcker, Ulf R Rapp

Open Access Research article

Cytotoxic effects of Gemcitabine-loaded liposomes in human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells

Marilena Celano, Maria Grazia Calvagno, Stefania Bulotta, Donatella Paolino, Franco Arturi, Domenicoantonio Rotiroti, Sebastiano Filetti, Massimo Fresta, Diego Russo

Open Access Research article

Methylation profiles of thirty four promoter-CpG islands and concordant methylation behaviours of sixteen genes that may contribute to carcinogenesis of astrocytoma

Jian Yu, Hongyu Zhang, Jun Gu, Song Lin, Junhua Li, Wei Lu, Yifei Wang, Jingde Zhu

Open Access Research article

The role of circulating anti-p53 antibodies in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and their correlation to clinical parameters and survival

Michael Bergqvist, Daniel Brattström, Anders Larsson, Patrik Hesselius, Ola Brodin, Gunnar Wagenius

Open Access Research article

Neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy for resectable esophageal cancer: a clinical practice guideline

Richard A Malthaner, Rebecca KS Wong, R Bryan Rumble, Lisa Zuraw

Open Access Research article

Cytokine and immunoglobulin production by PWM-stimulated peripheral and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes of undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients

Lilia Fliss-Jaber, Radhia Houissa-Kastally, Kamel Bouzouita, Naceur Khediri, Ridha Khelifa

Open Access Research article

Chemotherapy with cisplatin and vinorelbine for elderly patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

José Rodrigues Pereira, Sandro J Martins, Sueli M Nikaedo, Flora K Ikari

Open Access Research article

Cytotoxicity of psammaplin A from a two-sponge association may correlate with the inhibition of DNA replication

Yahong Jiang, Eun-Young Ahn, Seung Hee Ryu, Dong-Kyoo Kim, Jang-Su Park, Hyun Joo Yoon, Song You, Burm-Jong Lee, Dong Seok Lee, Jee H Jung

Open Access Research article

Radiotherapy fractionation for the palliation of uncomplicated painful bone metastases – an evidence-based practice guideline

Jackson Sai-Yiu Wu, Rebecca KS Wong, Nancy S Lloyd, Mary Johnston, Andrea Bezjak, Timothy Whelan

Open Access Research article

Classification between normal and tumor tissues based on the pair-wise gene expression ratio

YeeLeng Yap, XueWu Zhang, MT Ling, XiangHong Wang, YC Wong, Antoine Danchin

Open Access Research article

CD155/PVR plays a key role in cell motility during tumor cell invasion and migration

Kevin E Sloan, Brenda K Eustace, Jean K Stewart, Carol Zehetmeier, Claudia Torella, Marina Simeone, Jennifer E Roy, Christine Unger, David N Louis, Leodevico L Ilag, Daniel G Jay

Open Access Case report

Cerebral relapse of metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor during treatment with imatinib mesylate: Case report

Brett Hughes, Desmond Yip, David Goldstein, Paul Waring, Victoria Beshay, Guan Chong

Open Access Research article

Fully human IgG and IgM antibodies directed against the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) Gold 4 epitope and designed for radioimmunotherapy (RIT) of colorectal cancers

Véronique Garambois, Fabienne Glaussel, Elodie Foulquier, Marc Ychou, Martine Pugnière, Robin X Luo, Binyam Bezabeh, André Pèlegrin

Open Access Research article

A survey of individual preference for colorectal cancer screening technique

Richard L Nelson, Alan Schwartz

Open Access Research article

No effects of GSM-modulated 900 MHz electromagnetic fields on survival rate and spontaneous development of lymphoma in female AKR/J mice

Angela M Sommer, Joachim Streckert, Andreas K Bitz, Volkert W Hansen, Alexander Lerchl

Open Access Research article

Identification of a panel of tumor-associated antigens from breast carcinoma cell lines, solid tumors and testis cDNA libraries displayed on lambda phage

Emiliano Pavoni, Paola Vaccaro, Andrea Pucci, Giorgia Monteriù, Elisa Beghetto, Stefano Barca, Maria Luisa Dupuis, Adolfo De Pasquale Ceratti, Antonio Lugini, Maurizio Cianfriglia, Enrico Cortesi, Franco Felici, Olga Minenkova

Open Access Research article

Neuroblastoma and pre-B lymphoma cells share expression of key transcription factors but display tissue restricted target gene expression

Anna Lagergren, Christina Manetopoulos, Håkan Axelson, Mikael Sigvardsson

Open Access Research article

Young age: an independent risk factor for disease-free survival in women with operable breast cancer

Wonshik Han, Seok Won Kim, In Ae Park, Daehee Kang, Sung-Won Kim, Yeo-Kyu Youn, Seung Keun Oh, Kuk Jin Choe, Dong-Young Noh

Open Access Research article

The in vitroeffect of gefitinib ('Iressa') alone and in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy on human solid tumours

Louise A Knight, Federica Di Nicolantonio, Pauline Whitehouse, Stuart Mercer, Sanjay Sharma, Sharon Glaysher, Penny Johnson, Ian A Cree

Open Access Research article

SMAC is expressed de novoin a subset of cervical cancer tumors

Magali Espinosa, David Cantu, Carlos M Lopez, Jaime G De la Garza, Vilma A Maldonado, Jorge Melendez-Zajgla

Open Access Research article

BAG-1 haplo-insufficiency impairs lung tumorigenesis

Rudolf Götz, Boris W Kramer, Guadalupe Camarero, Ulf R Rapp

Open Access Research article

Immunodominant PstS1 antigen of mycobacterium tuberculosis is a potent biological response modifier for the treatment of bladder cancer

Christian Sänger, Andreas Busche, Gabriele Bentien, Ralf Spallek, Fatima Jonas, Andreas Böhle, Mahavir Singh, Sven Brandau

Open Access Research article

Antitumor effectiveness of different amounts of electrical charge in Ehrlich and fibrosarcoma Sa-37 tumors

HC Ciria, MS Quevedo, LB Cabrales, RP Bruzón, MF Salas, OG Pena, TR González, DS López, JM Flores

Open Access Case report

Atypical presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma: a mass on the left thoracic wall

Şahin Çoban, Osman Yüksel, Seyfettin Köklü, Koray Ceyhan, Meltem Baykara, Abdulkadir Dökmeci

Open Access Case report

Penile metastasis from primary transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis: first manifestation of systemic spread

Giorgio Pomara, Ilaria Pastina, Maurizio Simone, Paolo Casale, Gabriella Marchetti, Francesco Francesca

Open Access Research article

Wnt1 is epistatic to Id2 in inducing mammary hyperplasia, ductal side-branching, and tumors in the mouse

Susan Marino, Claire Romelfanger, Yoshifumi Yokota, Roel Nusse

Open Access Research article

Role of the p53/p21 system in the response of human colon carcinoma cells to Doxorubicin

Raffaella Ravizza, Marzia B Gariboldi, Laura Passarelli, Elena Monti

Open Access Research article

Expression of inwardly rectifying potassium channels (GIRKs) and beta-adrenergic regulation of breast cancer cell lines

Howard K Plummer III, Qiang Yu, Yavuz Cakir, Hildegard M Schuller

Open Access Software

An electronic application for rapidly calculating Charlson comorbidity score

William H Hall, Ramanathan Ramachandran, Samir Narayan, Ashesh B Jani, Srinivasan Vijayakumar

Open Access Case report

An unusual pathological finding of chronic lymphocitic leukemia and adenocarcinoma of the prostate after transurethral resection for complete urinary retention: case report

Riccardo Ballario, Paolo Beltrami, Stefano Cavalleri, Lorenzo Ruggera, Maria Grazia Zorzi, Walter Artibani

Open Access Case report

Splenectomy for solitary splenic metastasis of ovarian cancer

Yang Seok Koh, Jung Chul Kim, Chol Kyoon Cho

Open Access Research article

Plasma prolactin in patients with colorectal cancer

Ahmad Reza Soroush, Hosein Mahmood zadeh, Mehrnush Moemeni, Behnam Shakiba, Sara Elmi

Open Access Research article

ACRATA: a novel electron transfer domain associated to apoptosis and cancer

Luis Sanchez-Pulido, Ana M Rojas, Alfonso Valencia, Carlos Martinez-A, Miguel A Andrade

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