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BMC Cancer

Ausgabe 1/2009

Inhalt (465 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

Is overexpression of HER-2 a predictor of prognosis in colorectal cancer?

Dara O Kavanagh, Gillian Chambers, Liam O' Grady, Kevin M Barry, Ronan P Waldron, Fadel Bennani, Paul W Eustace, Iqdam Tobbia

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Morbidity associated with "self-rated health" in epithelial ovarian cancer survivors

Astrid Helene Liavaag, Anne Dørum, Sophie D Fosså, Claes Tropé, Alv A Dahl

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Activation of the steroid and xenobiotic receptor, SXR, induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells

Suman Verma, Michelle M Tabb, Bruce Blumberg

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HER-2/neu amplification testing in breast cancer by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification: influence of manual- and laser microdissection

Cathy B Moelans, Roel A de Weger, Chantal Ezendam, Paul J van Diest

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Frequent loss of heterozygosity and altered expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene 'FAT' in human astrocytic tumors

Kunzang Chosdol, Anjan Misra, Sachin Puri, Tapasya Srivastava, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay, Chitra Sarkar, Ashok K Mahapatra, Subrata Sinha

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Evaluation of gene amplification and protein expression of HER-2/neu in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) and immunohistochemistry

Yukie Sato-Kuwabara, José I Neves, José HTG Fregnani, Rubens A Sallum, Fernando A Soares

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Hypothesis: primary antiangiogenic method proposed to treat early stage breast cancer

Michael W Retsky, William JM Hrushesky, Isaac D Gukas

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YKL-40 tissue expression and plasma levels in patients with ovarian cancer

Estrid VS Høgdall, Merete Ringsholt, Claus K Høgdall, Ib Jarle Christensen, Julia S Johansen, Susanne K Kjaer, Jan Blaakaer, Lene Ostenfeld-Møller, Paul A Price, Lise H Christensen

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Self-renewal and chemotherapy resistance of p75NTR positive cells in esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

Sheng-Dong Huang, Yang Yuan, Xiao-Hong Liu, De-Jun Gong, Chen-Guang Bai, Feng Wang, Jun-Hui Luo, Zhi-Yun Xu

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RNA interference-mediated c-MYC inhibition prevents cell growth and decreases sensitivity to radio- and chemotherapy in childhood medulloblastoma cells

André O von Bueren, Tarek Shalaby, Christoph Oehler-Jänne, Lucia Arnold, Duncan Stearns, Charles G Eberhart, Alexandre Arcaro, Martin Pruschy, Michael A Grotzer

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Oral tongue cancer gene expression profiling: Identification of novel potential prognosticators by oligonucleotide microarray analysis

Cherry L Estilo, Pornchai O-charoenrat, Simon Talbot, Nicholas D Socci, Diane L Carlson, Ronald Ghossein, Tijaana Williams, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Yegnanarayana Ramanathan, Jay O Boyle, Dennis H Kraus, Snehal Patel, Ashok R Shaha, Richard J Wong, Joseph M Huryn, Jatin P Shah, Bhuvanesh Singh

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Impact of age, leukocyte count and day 21-bone marrow response to chemotherapy on the long-term outcome of children with philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the pre-imatinib era: results of the FRALLE 93 study

Virginie Gandemer, Marie-Francoise Auclerc, Yves Perel, Jean-Pierre Vannier, Edouard Le Gall, Francois Demeocq, Claudine Schmitt, Christophe Piguet, Jean-Louis Stephan, Odile Lejars, Marianne Debre, Philippe Jonveaux, Jean-Michel Cayuela, Sylvie Chevret, Guy Leverger, Andre Baruchel

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Cured meat, vegetables, and bean-curd foods in relation to childhood acute leukemia risk: A population based case-control study

Chen-yu Liu, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Ming-Tsang Wu, Pi-Chen Pan, Chi-Kung Ho, Li Su, Xin Xu, Yi Li, David C Christiani

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Identification of ATP synthase beta subunit (ATPB) on the cell surface as a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) associated antigen

Ze-jun Lu, Qi-fang Song, Sa-sa Jiang, Qi Song, Wei Wang, Gao-hua Zhang, Bin Kan, Lan-tu Gou, Li-juan Chen, Feng Luo, Zhi Yong Qian, Jin-liang Yang, Yu Quan Wei

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Combined use of expression and CGH arrays pinpoints novel candidate genes in Ewing sarcoma family of tumors

Suvi Savola, Arto Klami, Abhishek Tripathi, Tarja Niini, Massimo Serra, Piero Picci, Samuel Kaski, Diana Zambelli, Katia Scotlandi, Sakari Knuutila

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The value of diffusion-weighted imaging in assessing the ADC changes of tissues adjacent to breast carcinoma

Zhang Yili, Huang Xiaoyan, Du Hongwen, Zhang Yun, Chen Xin, Wang Peng, Guo Youmin

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Freund's vaccine adjuvant promotes Her2/Neu breast cancer

Michelle S Cotroneo, Jill D Haag, Nicholas R Stapel, Jordy L Waller, Stephan Woditschka, Michael N Gould

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Correlation between MMPs and their inhibitors in breast cancer tumor tissue specimens and in cell lines with different metastatic potential

Rita CS Figueira, Luciana R Gomes, João S Neto, Fabricio C Silva, Ismael DCG Silva, Mari C Sogayar

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A positioning pillow to improve lumbar puncture success rate in paediatric haematology-oncology patients: a randomized controlled trial

Perrine Marec-Bérard, Alvine Bissery, Kamila Kebaïli, Matthias Schell, Françoise Aubert, Ségolène Gaillard, Muriel Rabilloud, Behrouz Kassaï, Catherine Cornu

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Gene expression profiling of alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS)

Luke H Stockwin, David T Vistica, Susan Kenney, David S Schrump, Donna O Butcher, Mark Raffeld, Robert H Shoemaker

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Total laparoscopic hysterectomy versus abdominal hysterectomy in the treatment of patients with early stage endometrial cancer: A randomized multi center study

Claudia BM Bijen, Justine M Briët, Geertruida H de Bock, Henriëtte JG Arts, Johanna A Bergsma-Kadijk, Marian JE Mourits

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Qualitative analysis of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli promoter: Hypermethylation, engagement and effects on survival of patients with esophageal cancer in a high risk region of the world, a potential molecular marker

Maryam Zare, Ferdous Rastgar Jazii, Mohammad Reza Alivand, Negin Karimi Nasseri, Reza Malekzadeh, Mansour Yazdanbod

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Microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer and association with thymidylate synthase and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase expression

Søren A Jensen, Ben Vainer, Mogens Kruhøffer, Jens B Sørensen

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in breast tumors: prevalence in a group of Mexican patients

David Cantu de León, Delia Pérez Montiel, Jana Nemcova, Iva Mykyskova, Elmer Turcios, Verónica Villavicencio, Lucely Cetina, Alberto Coronel, Ondraj Hes

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The critical role of ERK in death resistance and invasiveness of hypoxia-selected glioblastoma cells

Jee-Youn Kim, Yong-Jun Kim, Sun Lee, Jae-Hoon Park

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Certified causes of death in patients with mesothelioma in South East England

Catherine Okello, Tom Treasure, Andrew G Nicholson, Julian Peto, Henrik Møller

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The intraportal injection model: A practical animal model for hepatic metastases and tumor cell dissemination in human colon cancer

Andreas Thalheimer, Christoph Otto, Marco Bueter, Bertram Illert, Stefan Gattenlohner, Martin Gasser, Detlef Meyer, Martin Fein, Christoph T Germer, Ana M Waaga-Gasser

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Characterization of SV-40 Tag rats as a model to study prostate cancer

Curt E Harper, Brijesh B Patel, Leah M Cook, Jun Wang, Tomoyuki Shirai, Isam A Eltoum, Coral A Lamartiniere

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Clinical significance of altered nm23-H1, EGFR, RB and p53 expression in bilharzial bladder cancer

Hussein M Khaled, Abeer A Bahnassy, Amira A Raafat, Abdel-Rahman N Zekri, Maha S Madboul, Nadia M Mokhtar

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Early and very early hepatocellular carcinoma: when and how much do staging and choice of treatment really matter? A multi-center study

Fabio Farinati, Adriana Sergio, Anna Baldan, Anna Giacomin, Maria Anna Di Nolfo, Paolo Del Poggio, Luisa Benvegnu, Gianludovico Rapaccini, Marco Zoli, Franco Borzio, Edoardo G Giannini, Eugenio Caturelli, Franco Trevisani

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Metastatic renal cell cancer treatments: An indirect comparison meta-analysis

Edward J Mills, Beth Rachlis, Chris O'Regan, Lehana Thabane, Dan Perri

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The association between RCAS1 expression in laryngeal and pharyngeal cancer and its healthy stroma with cancer relapse

Magdalena Dutsch-Wicherek, Romana Tomaszewska, Agata Lazar, Lukasz Wicherek, Jacek Skladzien

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Establishing the added benefit of measuring MMP9 in FOB positive patients as a part of the Wolverhampton colorectal cancer screening programme

Sue Wilson, Taina Taskila, Tariq Ismail, Deborah D Stocken, Ashley Martin, Val Redman, Michael Wakelam, Ian Perry, Richard Hobbs

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Bioelectrical impedance phase angle in clinical practice: implications for prognosis in stage IIIB and IV non-small cell lung cancer

Digant Gupta, Carolyn A Lammersfeld, Pankaj G Vashi, Jessica King, Sadie L Dahlk, James F Grutsch, Christopher G Lis

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Activity of mevalonate pathway inhibitors against breast and ovarian cancers in the ATP-based tumour chemosensitivity assay

Louise A Knight, Christian M Kurbacher, Sharon Glaysher, Augusta Fernando, Ralf Reichelt, Susanne Dexel, Uwe Reinhold, Ian A Cree

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Disclosure of cancer diagnosis and quality of life in cancer patients: should it be the same everywhere?

Ali Montazeri, Azadeh Tavoli, Mohammad Ali Mohagheghi, Rasool Roshan, Zahra Tavoli

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Increased PADI4 expression in blood and tissues of patients with malignant tumors

Xiaotian Chang, Jinxiang Han, Li Pang, Yan Zhao, Yi Yang, Zhonglin Shen

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Identification of a potent herbal molecule for the treatment of breast cancer

Srinivas Koduru, Srinivasan Sowmyalakshmi, Raj Kumar, Rohini Gomathinayagam, Jürgen Rohr, Chendil Damodaran

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Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging of lipids in cancer metastasis

Thuc T Le, Terry B Huff, Ji-Xin Cheng

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Screening and association testing of common coding variation in steroid hormone receptor co-activator and co-repressor genes in relation to breast cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort

Christopher A Haiman, Rachel R Garcia, Chris Hsu, Lucy Xia, Helen Ha, Xin Sheng, Loic Le Marchand, Laurence N Kolonel, Brian E Henderson, Michael R Stallcup, Geoffrey L Greene, Michael F Press

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Specific gene expression profiles and chromosomal abnormalities are associated with infant disseminated neuroblastoma

Cinzia Lavarino, Nai-Kong V Cheung, Idoia Garcia, Gema Domenech, Carmen de Torres, Miguel Alaminos, Jose Rios, William L Gerald, Brian Kushner, Mike LaQuaglia, Jaume Mora

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Secretion of MCP-1 and other paracrine factors in a novel tumor-bone coculture model

Katherine R Schiller, Marion R Zillhardt, Jeremy Alley, Dori L Borjesson, Alvin J Beitz, Laura J Mauro

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Risk factors for lower limb lymphedema after lymph node dissection in patients with ovarian and uterine carcinoma

Harue Tada, Satoshi Teramukai, Masanori Fukushima, Hiroshi Sasaki

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High resolution human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II allele typing in Mexican mestizo women with sporadic breast cancer: case-control study

David Cantú de León, Delia Pérez-Montiel, Verónica Villavicencio, Alejandro García Carranca, Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Alberto López-Tello, Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón, Rodrigo Barquera, Neng Yu, Edmond J Yunis, Julio Granados

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Suitable reference genes for real-time PCR in human HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma with different clinical prognoses

Li-Yun Fu, Hu-Liang Jia, Qiong-Zhu Dong, Jin-Cai Wu, Yue Zhao, Hai-Jun Zhou, Ning Ren, Qin-Hai Ye, Lun-Xiu Qin

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Preoperative short-course radiotherapy versus combined radiochemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multi-centre prospectively randomised study of the Berlin Cancer Society

Robert Siegel, Susen Burock, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, Albrecht Kretzschmar, Manfred Dietel, Volker Loy, Stephan Koswig, Volker Budach, Peter M Schlag

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Oncoprotein HCCR-1 expression in breast cancer is well correlated with known breast cancer prognostic factors including the HER2 overexpression, p53 mutation, and ER/PR status

Seon-Ah Ha, Youn Soo Lee, Seung Min Shin, Hyun Kee Kim, Sanghee Kim, Hong Namkoong, Hae Joo Kim, Sang Min Jung, Yu Sun Lee, Yeun Jun Chung, Sang Seol Jung, Jin Woo Kim

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Loss of full length CtBP1 expression enhances the invasive potential of human melanoma

Andreas Winklmeier, Ina Poser, Keith S Hoek, Anja K Bosserhoff

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The effect of the dual Src/Abl kinase inhibitor AZD0530 on Philadelphia positive leukaemia cell lines

Patricia Mambou Gwanmesia, Annette Romanski, Kerstin Schwarz, Biserka Bacic, Martin Ruthardt, Oliver G Ottmann

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Arrested neural and advanced mesenchymal differentiation of glioblastoma cells-comparative study with neural progenitors

Piotr Rieske, Ewa Golanska, Magdalena Zakrzewska, Sylwester Piaskowski, Krystyna Hulas-Bigoszewska, Magdalena Wolańczyk, Malgorzata Szybka, Monika Witusik-Perkowska, Dariusz J Jaskolski, Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Wojciech Biernat, Barbara Krynska, Pawel P Liberski

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Dynamic distribution and expression in vivo of the human interferon gamma gene delivered by adenoviral vector

Jiangxue Wu, Xia Xiao, Hongyun Jia, Jiemin Chen, Yinghui Zhu, Peng Zhao, Huanxin Lin, Wenlin Huang

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Absence of polysialylated NCAM is an unfavorable prognostic phenotype for advanced stage neuroblastoma

Miikka Korja, Anne Jokilammi, Toivo T Salmi, Hannu Kalimo, Tarja-Terttu Pelliniemi, Jorma Isola, Immo Rantala, Hannu Haapasalo, Jukka Finne

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Two mechanisms of the enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) efficacy of non-fucosylated therapeutic antibodies in human blood

Shigeru Iida, Reiko Kuni-Kamochi, Katsuhiro Mori, Hirofumi Misaka, Miho Inoue, Akira Okazaki, Kenya Shitara, Mitsuo Satoh

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The carboxyl terminal trimer of procollagen I induces pro-metastatic changes and vascularization in breast cancer cells xenografts

Davide Visigalli, Daniela Palmieri, Antonella Strangio, Simonetta Astigiano, Ottavia Barbieri, Gianluigi Casartelli, Antonio Zicca, Paola Manduca

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Effects of the single nucleotide polymorphism at MDM2 309 on breast cancer patients with/without BRCA1/2 mutations

Hovav Nechushtan, Tamar Hamburger, Susan Mendelson, Luna Kadouri, Nir Sharon, Eli Pikarsky, Tamar Peretz

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Expression of Bmi-1 is a prognostic marker in bladder cancer

Zi-Ke Qin, Jian-An Yang, Yun-lin Ye, Xing Zhang, Li-Hua Xu, Fang-Jian Zhou, Hui Han, Zuo-Wei Liu, Li-Bing Song, Mu-Sheng Zeng

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Role of BRCA2 mutation status on overall survival among breast cancer patients from Sardinia

Mario Budroni, Rosaria Cesaraccio, Vincenzo Coviello, Ornelia Sechi, Daniela Pirino, Antonio Cossu, Francesco Tanda, Marina Pisano, Grazia Palomba, Giuseppe Palmieri

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ARC (NSC 188491) has identical activity to Sangivamycin (NSC 65346) including inhibition of both P-TEFb and PKC

Luke H Stockwin, Sherry X Yu, Howard Stotler, Melinda G Hollingshead, Dianne L Newton

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Differential expression of Caveolin-1 in hepatocellular carcinoma: correlation with differentiation state, motility and invasion

Murat Cokakli, Esra Erdal, Deniz Nart, Funda Yilmaz, Ozgul Sagol, Murat Kilic, Sedat Karademir, Nese Atabey

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Randomised Phase I/II trial assessing the safety and efficacy of radiolabelled anti-carcinoembryonic antigen I131KAb201 antibodies given intra-arterially or intravenously in patients with unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Asma Sultana, Susannah Shore, Michael GT Raraty, Sobhan Vinjamuri, Jonathan E Evans, Catrin Tudur Smith, Steven Lane, Seema Chauhan, Lorraine Bosonnet, Conall Garvey, Robert Sutton, John P Neoptolemos, Paula Ghaneh

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Expression of verotoxin-1 receptor Gb3 in breast cancer tissue and verotoxin-1 signal transduction to apoptosis

David Johansson, Eldina Kosovac, Jasmin Moharer, Ingrid Ljuslinder, Thomas Brännström, Anders Johansson, Parviz Behnam-Motlagh

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Rectal cancer treatment and outcome in the elderly: an audit based on the Swedish rectal cancer registry 1995–2004

Bärbel Jung, Lars Påhlman, Robert Johansson, Erik Nilsson

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Carboxypeptidase 4 gene variants and early-onset intermediate-to-high risk prostate cancer

Phillip L Ross, Iona Cheng, Xin Liu, Mine S Cicek, Peter R Carroll, Graham Casey, John S Witte

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Clustering of cancer among families of cases with Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL), Multiple Myeloma (MM), Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL), Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS) and control subjects

Helen H McDuffie, Punam Pahwa, Chandima P Karunanayake, John J Spinelli, James A Dosman

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Loss of heterozygosity of TRIM3 in malignant gliomas

Jean-Louis Boulay, Urs Stiefel, Elisabeth Taylor, Béatrice Dolder, Adrian Merlo, Frank Hirth

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Differential expression of topoisomerase IIα protein in salivary gland carcinomas: histogenetic and prognostic implications

Shin-ichiro Maruya, Takashi Shirasaki, Takahiko Nagaki, Seiji Kakehata, Hidekachi Kurotaki, Hiroki Mizukami, Hideichi Shinkawa

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The role of PET/CT in detection of gastric cancer recurrence

Sung Hoon Sim, Yu Jung Kim, Do-Youn Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Won Jun Kang, Seock-Ah Im, Tae-You Kim, Woo Ho Kim, Dae Seog Heo, Yung-Jue Bang

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Functional characterization of E- and P-cadherin in invasive breast cancer cells

David Sarrió, José Palacios, Marta Hergueta-Redondo, Gonzalo Gómez-López, Amparo Cano, Gema Moreno-Bueno

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Id2 promotes the invasive growth of MCF-7 and SKOV-3 cells by a novel mechanism independent of dimerization to basic helix-loop-helix factors

Yuanguang Meng, Chenglei Gu, Zhiqiang Wu, Yali Zhao, Yiling Si, Xiaobing Fu, Weidong Han

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Genes of cell-cell interactions, chemotherapy detoxification and apoptosis are induced during chemotherapy of acute myeloid leukemia

Anne Margrete Øyan, Nina Ånensen, Trond Hellem Bø, Laila Stordrange, Inge Jonassen, Øystein Bruserud, Karl-Henning Kalland, Bjørn Tore Gjertsen

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The prognostic value of four interleukin-1 gene polymorphisms in caucasian women with breast cancer – a multicenter study

Christoph Grimm, Eva Kantelhardt, Georg Heinze, Stephan Polterauer, Robert Zeillinger, Heinz Kölbl, Alexander Reinthaller, Lukas Hefler

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The high affinity selectin glycan ligand C2-O-sLex and mRNA transcripts of the core 2 β-1,6-N-acetylglusaminyltransferase (C2GnT1) gene are highly expressed in human colorectal adenocarcinomas

Catherine A St Hill, Mariya Farooqui, Gregory Mitcheltree, H Evin Gulbahce, Jose Jessurun, Qing Cao, Bruce Walcheck

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ADAM33 gene silencing by promoter hypermethylation as a molecular marker in breast invasive lobular carcinoma

Gerusa G Seniski, Anamaria A Camargo, Daniela F Ierardi, Edneia AS Ramos, Mariana Grochoski, Enilze SF Ribeiro, Iglenir J Cavalli, Fabio O Pedrosa, Emanuel M de Souza, Silvio M Zanata, Fabrício F Costa, Giseli Klassen

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Characterization of STAT3 activation and expression in canine and human osteosarcoma

Stacey L Fossey, Albert T Liao, Jennifer K McCleese, Misty D Bear, Jiayuh Lin, Pui-Kai Li, William C Kisseberth, Cheryl A London

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Sunitinib treatment for patients with clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma: clinical outcomes and plasma angiogenesis markers

Loukas F Kontovinis, Konstantinos T Papazisis, Panagiota Touplikioti, Charalambos Andreadis, Despoina Mouratidou, Alexandros H Kortsaris

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APRIL is overexpressed in cancer: link with tumor progression

Jérôme Moreaux, Jean-Luc Veyrune, John De Vos, Bernard Klein

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Breast cancer epidemiology according to recognized breast cancer risk factors in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Cohort

James V Lacey Jr, Aimee R Kreimer, Saundra S Buys, Pamela M Marcus, Shih-Chen Chang, Michael F Leitzmann, Robert N Hoover, Philip C Prorok, Christine D Berg, Patricia Hartge

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Enhanced antitumor efficacy of cisplatin in combination with HemoHIM in tumor-bearing mice

Hae-Ran Park, Eun-Jin Ju, Sung-Kee Jo, Uhee Jung, Sung-Ho Kim, Sung-Tae Yee

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The prevalence of BRCA1 mutations among young women with triple-negative breast cancer

SR Young, Robert T Pilarski, Talia Donenberg, Charles Shapiro, Lyn S Hammond, Judith Miller, Karen A Brooks, Stephanie Cohen, Beverly Tenenholz, Damini DeSai, Inuk Zandvakili, Robert Royer, Song Li, Steven A Narod

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Overexpression of UbcH10 alternates the cell cycle profile and accelerate the tumor proliferation in colon cancer

Takeo Fujita, Hirokuni Ikeda, Naruto Taira, Shinji Hatoh, Minoru Naito, Hiroyoshi Doihara

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Circulating cell death products predict clinical outcome of colorectal cancer patients

Pim J Koelink, Cornelis BHW Lamers, Daan W Hommes, Hein W Verspaget

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Plausibility of stromal initiation of epithelial cancers without a mutation in the epithelium: a computer simulation of morphostats

Stuart G Baker, Ana M Soto, Carlos Sonnenschein, Antonio Cappuccio, John D Potter, Barnett S Kramer

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Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and chromogenic in situ hybridization: precise methods to detect HER-2 status in breast carcinoma

Fabíola E Rosa, Sara M Silveira, Cássia GT Silveira, Nádia A Bérgamo, Francisco A Moraes Neto, Maria AC Domingues, Fernando A Soares, José RF Caldeira, Silvia R Rogatto

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Population based prostate cancer screening in north Mexico reveals a high prevalence of aggressive tumors in detected cases

Lauro S Gomez-Guerra, Margarita L Martinez-Fierro, Valeria Alcantara-Aragon, Rocio Ortiz-Lopez, Rebeca T Martinez-Villarreal, Idelma B Morales-Rodriguez, Raquel Garza-Guajardo, Marco A Ponce-Camacho, Augusto Rojas-Martinez

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Androgen deprivation modulates the inflammatory response induced by irradiation

Chun-Te Wu, Wen-Cheng Chen, Paul-Yang Lin, Shuen-Kuei Liao, Miao-Fen Chen

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QPRT: a potential marker for follicular thyroid carcinoma including minimal invasive variant; a gene expression, RNA and immunohistochemical study

Nora Hinsch, Matthias Frank, Claudia Döring, Christian Vorländer, Martin-Leo Hansmann

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Staged stromal extracellular 3D matrices differentially regulate breast cancer cell responses through PI3K and beta1-integrins

Remedios Castelló-Cros, David R Khan, Jeffrey Simons, Matthildi Valianou, Edna Cukierman

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Microvessel density as new prognostic marker after radiotherapy in rectal cancer

Saulius Svagzdys, Vaiva Lesauskaite, Dainius Pavalkis, Irena Nedzelskienė, Darius Pranys, Algimantas Tamelis

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Fenretinide-induced caspase-8 activation and apoptosis in an established model of metastatic neuroblastoma

Gilda Raguénez, Annick Mühlethaler-Mottet, Roland Meier, Caroline Duros, Jean Bénard, Nicole Gross

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Estimation of age- and stage-specific Catalan breast cancer survival functions using US and Catalan survival data

Ester Vilaprinyo, Montserrat Rué, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Montserrat Martínez-Alonso

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New structural analogues of curcumin exhibit potent growth suppressive activity in human colorectal carcinoma cells

Ling Cen, Brian Hutzen, Sarah Ball, Stephanie DeAngelis, Chun-Liang Chen, James R Fuchs, Chenglong Li, Pui-Kai Li, Jiayuh Lin

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Regulation of HSP27 on NF-κB pathway activation may be involved in metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma cells apoptosis

Kun Guo, Nan Xiao Kang, Yan Li, Lu Sun, Lin Gan, Feng Jie Cui, Mei Dong Gao, Kun Yin Liu

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Treatment of recurrent malignant gliomas with fotemustine monotherapy: impact of dose and correlation with MGMT promoter methylation

Alessandra Fabi, Giulio Metro, Michelangelo Russillo, Antonello Vidiri, Carmine Maria Carapella, Marta Maschio, Francesco Cognetti, Bruno Jandolo, Maria Alessandra Mirri, Isabella Sperduti, Stefano Telera, Mariantonia Carosi, Andrea Pace

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Up-regulation of bone marrow stromal protein 2 (BST2) in breast cancer with bone metastasis

Dongqing Cai, Jie Cao, Zhen Li, Xin Zheng, Yao Yao, Wanglin Li, Ziqiang Yuan

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The subcellular localization of IGFBP5 affects its cell growth and migration functions in breast cancer

Mustafa Akkiprik, Limei Hu, Aysegul Sahin, Xishan Hao, Wei Zhang

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Prediction of breast cancer by profiling of urinary RNA metabolites using Support Vector Machine-based feature selection

Carsten Henneges, Dino Bullinger, Richard Fux, Natascha Friese, Harald Seeger, Hans Neubauer, Stefan Laufer, Christoph H Gleiter, Matthias Schwab, Andreas Zell, Bernd Kammerer

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Prognostic scores in brain metastases from breast cancer

Carsten Nieder, Kirsten Marienhagen, Sabrina T Astner, Michael Molls

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Complementarity of ultrasound and fluorescence imaging in an orthotopic mouse model of pancreatic cancer

Cynthia S Snyder, Sharmeela Kaushal, Yuko Kono, Hop S Tran Cao, Robert M Hoffman, Michael Bouvet

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Immunostaining with D2–40 improves evaluation of lymphovascular invasion, but may not predict sentinel lymph node status in early breast cancer

Anna V Britto, André A Schenka, Natália G Moraes-Schenka, Marcelo Alvarenga, Júlia Y Shinzato, José Vassallo, Laura S Ward

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A retrospective analysis of second-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Sang Hoon Ji, Do Hyoung Lim, Seong Yoon Yi, Hyo Song Kim, Hyun Jung Jun, Kyoung Ha Kim, Myung Hee Chang, Min Jae Park, Ji Eun Uhm, Jeeyun Lee, Se Hoon Park, Joon Oh Park, Young Suk Park, Ho Yeong Lim, Won Ki Kang

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KRAS mutation analysis in ovarian samples using a high sensitivity biochip assay

Veronika Auner, Gernot Kriegshäuser, Dan Tong, Reinhard Horvat, Alexander Reinthaller, Alexander Mustea, Robert Zeillinger

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Cetuximab in combination with irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid (FOLFIRI) in the initial treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer: a multicentre two-part phase I/II study

Jean-Luc Raoul, Jean-Luc Van Laethem, Marc Peeters, Catherine Brezault, Fares Husseini, Laurent Cals, Johannes Nippgen, Anja-Helena Loos, Philippe Rougier

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Activation of P2X7-mediated apoptosis Inhibits DMBA/TPA-induced formation of skin papillomas and cancer in mice

Wen Fu, Tom McCormick, Xiaoping Qi, Liping Luo, Lingyin Zhou, Xin Li, Bing-Cheng Wang, Heidi E Gibbons, Fadi W Abdul-Karim, George I Gorodeski

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CYP17, GSTP1, PON1 and GLO1gene polymorphisms as risk factors for breast cancer: an Italian case-control study

Cinzia Antognelli, Chiara Del Buono, Vienna Ludovini, Stefania Gori, Vincenzo N Talesa, Lucio Crinò, Francesco Barberini, Antonio Rulli

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The effect of comorbidity on the use of adjuvant chemotherapy and survival from colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study

Diana Sarfati, Sarah Hill, Tony Blakely, Bridget Robson, Gordon Purdie, Elizabeth Dennett, Donna Cormack, Kevin Dew

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Return to work of breast cancer survivors: a systematic review of intervention studies

JL Hoving, MLA Broekhuizen, MHW Frings-Dresen

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