Contents - Volume 1
 

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Intraarterial chemotherapy and chemoembolization in head and neck cancer. Establishment as a neoadjuvant routine method
Research Article

Adorján F. Kovács MD, DMD

 

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Current aspects in the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory testicular cancer
Review Article

O. Rick1, J. Beyer, T. Braun, K. Possinger, W. Siegert

 

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Gene expression profiles related with overcoming cisplatin resistance in human cancer cell lines
Research Article

Moonkyu Kim, Young Jin Park, Ok Ju Kim, Gab Yong Lee, Eun Jung Chung, Young Kwan Sung, Jung Chul Kim, Insook Han, Youn Soo Sohn

 

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Vascular endothelial growth factor modulates cisplatin sensitivity in human ovarian carcinoma cells
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Guodong Hu, Sean Ryan, Yunfeng Zhu, Eddie Reed, Xiping Li, Gangduo Wang, and Qingdi Q. L

 

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Overexpression of angiogenic growth factors in lung cancer cells is associated with cisplatin resistance
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Xiping Li1, Xuyi Liu, Jie Wang, Zengli Wang, Wei Jiang, Eddie Reed, Yi Zhang, Yuanlin Liu, and Q. Quentin Li

 

 
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Cisplatin nephrotoxicity: molecular mechanisms
Review Article


Marie H. Hanigan and Prasad Devarajan

 

 
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Mitoxantrone, prednisone, pentostatin and bleomycin for patients with indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma relapsed or unresponsive to previous treatments. Results of a phase II study conducted by the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio dei Linfomi (GISL)

Research Article


Massimo Federico, Vincenzo Callea, Romano Danesi, Antonella Montanini1, Nicola Di Renzo, Mario Petrini, Mario Del Tacca, Maria Angela Sirotti, Giovanni Santacroce, Alberto Bagnulo, Matteo Dell’Olio and Maura Brugiatelli

 
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Chemotherapy in elderly patients with advanced breast cancer
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Giuseppe Colantuoni, Antonio Rossi, Carmine Ferrara, Dario Nicolella, Filomena Del Gaizo, Ciro Guerriero, Giuseppe Airoma, Maria Luisa Barzelloni, Paolo Maione, Vincenzo Salerno, Cesare Gridelli

 

 
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Drug resistance in breast cancer
Review Article


Hermann Lage

 
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Screening for lung cancer: a review and current status
Review Article


Deborah S Bruno and William Tester

 
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Expression of RB1CC1, a novel tumor suppressor gene, is inversely correlated with the Ki-67 proliferation index in primary breast cancers
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Koji Teramoto, Tokuhiro Chano, Yoshitomo Ozaki, Satoru Sawai, Noriaki Tezuka, Keiichi Kontani, Shozo Fujino, Hidetoshi Okabe

 

 
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Approaches to the treatment of brain tumors using cytokine-secreting allogeneic fibroblasts
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Terry Lichtor, Roberta P Glick, Edward P Cohe

 

 

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Safety, feasibility and clinical benefit of localized chemotherapy using microencapsulated cells for inoperable pancreatic carcinoma in a phase I/II trial

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Matthias Loehr, Jens-Christian Krueger, Anne Hoffmeyer, Mathias Freund, Johannes Hain, Albrecht Holle, Wolfram T. Knoefel, Stefan Liebe, Horst Nizze, Matthias Renner, Robert Saller, Petra Mueller, Thomas Wagner, Karlheinz Hauenstein, Brian Salmons and Walter H. Guenzburg

 
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Electrochemotherapy: advantages and drawbacks in treatment of cancer patients
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p16 downregulates VEGF and inhibits angiogenesis in breast cancer cells
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Yi Lu, Jun Zhang, Derrick J. Beech, Linda K. Myers, and Lisa K. Jennings

 

 
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Basic fibroblast growth factor antisense oligonucleotides inhibit renal cell carcinoma cell growth and angiogenesis
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Wenyin Shi and Dietmar W. Siemann

 
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Antitumoral cell-based therapies


Review Article

Javier García-Castro, Daniel Rubio, Ricardo de la Fuente, Antonio Bernad

 

 
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Can mortalin be a candidate target for cancer therapy?
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Renu Wadhwa, Kazunari Taira and Sunil C Kaul

 
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Therapeutic potential of antinuclear autoantibodies in cancer
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Vladimir P. Torchilin, Leonid Z. Iakoubov, Zeev Estrov

 

 
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Filgrastim use: evaluation in cancer and critically ill non- cancer patients

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Yolande B. Saab, Leyla Sharaf, Ismail Zeidan

 

 
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Gemcitabine, cisplatin, fluorouracil and folinic acid as first line treatment of locally advanced and/or metastatic pancreatic cancer: a phase II study of the gruppo oncologico dell’Italia meridionale (G.O.I.M.)

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Vittorio Gebbia, Francesco Giuliani, Generoso Uomo, Evaristo Maiello, Maria Rosaria Valerio, Nicolo Borsellino, Nicolò Gebbia4 and Giuseppe Colucci

 

 
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Phase I study of high dose 5-fluorouracil and folinic acid in weekly continuous infusions

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Limacher JM, Duclos B, Dufour P, Wihlm J§, Leveque D, Jehl F, Eichler F, Keiling R, Natarajan-Ame S, Kurtz JE, Bergerat JP

 
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High-dose methotrexate with citrovorum factor for malignant fibrous histiocytoma of soft tissue: a cell culture study

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Toshiaki Hitora, Takashi Marui, Tetsuji Yamamoto, Toshihiro Akisue, Teruya Kawamoto, Keiko Nagira, Tetsuya Nakatani, Shinichi Yoshiya, Masahiro Kurosaka

 

 
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Phase II intergroup trial of sequential chemotherapy and radiotherapy for AIDS-related primary central nervous system lymphoma

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RF Ambinder, S. Lee, WJ Curran, JA Sparano4, RL Krigel, J McArthur, C Schultz, CE Freter7, L Kaplan, JH VonRoenn

 
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Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer: addressing the controversies

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Anees Chagpar, John Pilavas, Celia Chao, Robert C.G. Martin II, Kelly M. McMasters

 

 
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A randomised, double-blind, phase II study of three different marimastat schedules administered to patients with resected Dukes C colorectal cancer

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P.G. Corrie, D.J. Kerr, K Bennett, C.B. Wilson , R. Midgley2, P. Brown

 
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LY900003: A novel compound for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer


Review Article

Susannah E. Motl

 

 
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Activity of chemotherapy and immunotherapy on malignant mesothelioma: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis


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Berghmans T, Lafitte JJ, Mascaux C, Meert AP1, Paesmans M2 and Sculier JP

 
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Expression of insulin-like growth factors and their receptors in malignant fibrous histiocytoma of soft tissues


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Tetsuji Yamamoto , Toshihiro Akisue, Tetsuya Nakatani, Takashi Marui, Ikuo Fujita, Keiji Matsumoto, Toshiaki Hitora, Teruya Kawamoto, Keiko Nagira, Masahiro Kurosaka

 
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Ethical, cultural and religious aspects of hereditary cancer in Jewish communities


Review Article

Mark Levin

 

 
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Selective intraarterial cisplatin chemotherapy in treatment of advanced malignant squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck


Review Article

Afshin Teymoortash*, Jochen A. Werner

 

 
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Protein kinase C-delta and its downstream effectors as potential targets for cancer therapy


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Jihua Liu, David Durrant and Ray M. Lee*

Huntsman Cancer Institute and Section of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112

 

 
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A Phase I safety and imaging study using radiofrequency ablation (RFA) followed by 131I-chTNT-1/B radioimmunotherapy adjuvant treatment of hepatic metastases


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Peter M. Anderson1,2,3*, Gregory A. Wiseman3,4, Bradley D. Lewis5, J. William Charboneau5, William L. Dunn4, Susan P. Carpenter6, Terrence Chew6


Dept. of Pediatrics1, Internal Medicine (Hematology)2, and Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center3, Nuclear Medicine4, and Radiology5, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, Peregrine Pharmaceuticals6, Tustin CA

 

 
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Allelic loss at the SEP15 locus in breast cancer


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Mohamed A. Nasr, Ya Jun Hu, and Alan M. Diamond*


Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612

 

 
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Dendritic cell based vaccines for immunotherapy of cancer


Review Article

Asim Saha, Sunil K. Chatterjee, Kartik Mohanty, Kenneth A. Foon1, Malaya Bhattacharya-Chatterjee*


Department of Internal Medicine and the Barrett Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
1University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232

 

 
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Multitargeted antifolate (Pemetrexed): A comprehensive review of its mechanisms of action, recent results and future prospects


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Delphine Exinger1, Françoise Exinger2, Bertrand Mennecier3, Jean-Marc Limacher1, Patrick Dufour1, Jean-Emmanuel Kurtz 1,2,*


1 Department of Hematology and Oncology, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 Avenue Molière, 67098-F Strasbourg France; 2 Laboratoire de Génétique, UPR 9003 du CNRS, IRCAD, 1 place de l’Hôpital, 67000-F Strasbourg France; 3 Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Lyautey, 1 rue des Cannoniers, 67100-F Strasbourg France

 

 
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Molecular therapy of gastric cancer


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Jie Chen1, Minhu Chen2, Christoph Röcken 3, Tobias Götze1, Peter Malfertheiner1 and Matthias P.A. Ebert1


1Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, and 3Institute of Pathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; 2Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

 

 
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Tumor angiogenesis as a strategy for radiosensitization


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Bo Lu, Dong W. Kim, Dennis E. Hallahan1,3*


1Department of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 2Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 3 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt School of Engineering, Nashville, TN

 

 
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p14 ARF: Role in the cellular stress response and applications to cancer


Review Article

Yinghui Huang and Ruth A. Gjerset

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, 10835 Altman Row, San Diego, CA 92121

 

 
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The role of B lymphocytes in breast cancer: a review and current status


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Sazini Nzula 1*, James J. Going 2, David I. Stott 1


1Division of Immunology, Infection & Inflammation and 2Division of Cancer Sciences & Molecular Pathology, University of Glasgow, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, G11 6NT, Scotland, U.K.

 

 
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Advances in breast cancer therapy and chemoprevention: current strategies and new approaches


Review Article

Brittney-Shea Herbert Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and The Indiana University Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA

 

 
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Treatment planning in endometrial cancer


Review Article

Angiolo Gadducci, Stefania Cosio, Andrea Riccardo Genazzani

 

 
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Dendritic cell-mediated immunosuppression in malignant melanoma


Review Article

Marta E Polak, Nicola J Borthwick, Martine J Jager, Ian A Cree