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Volume 8;  2008
Commentary
Ampullary adenocarcinoma – differentiation matters
Peter Schirmacher and Markus W Büchler
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 251. Published online 2008 September 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-251.
PMCID: PMC2553420
Review
Kaposi sarcoma in unusual locations
Liron Pantanowitz and Bruce J Dezube
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 190. Published online 2008 July 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-190.
PMCID: PMC2464778
Study Protocol
Biomonitoring of complex occupational exposures to carcinogens: The case of sewage workers in Paris
Hamzeh Al Zabadi, Luc Ferrari, Anne-Marie Laurent, Aziz Tiberguent, Christophe Paris, and Denis Zmirou-Navier
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 67. Published online 2008 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-67.
PMCID: PMC2292199
ProsCan for Men: Randomised controlled trial of a decision support intervention for men with localised prostate cancer
Suzanne K Chambers, Megan Ferguson, RA Gardiner, David Nicol, Louisa Gordon, Stefano Occhipinti, and Joanne Aitken
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 207. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-207.
PMCID: PMC2515322
ProsCan for Couples: Randomised controlled trial of a couples-based sexuality intervention for men with localised prostate cancer who receive radical prostatectomy
Suzanne K Chambers, Leslie Schover, Kim Halford, Samantha Clutton, Megan Ferguson, Louisa Gordon, RA Gardiner, Stefano Occhipinti, and Jeff Dunn
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 226. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-226.
PMCID: PMC2529334
Identification of low penetrance alleles for lung cancer: The GEnetic Lung CAncer Predisposition Study (GELCAPS)
Tim Eisen, Athena Matakidou, Richard Houlston, and the GELCAPS Consortium
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 244. Published online 2008 August 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-244.
PMCID: PMC2535604
Design of the BRISC study: a multicentre controlled clinical trial to optimize the communication of breast cancer risks in genetic counselling
Caroline F Ockhuysen-Vermey, Lidewij Henneman, Christi J van Asperen, Jan C Oosterwijk, Fred H Menko, and Daniëlle RM Timmermans
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 283. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-283.
PMCID: PMC2576334
Rationale and design of PROSPECT-CONKO 004: a prospective, randomized trial of simultaneous pancreatic cancer treatment with enoxaparin and chemotherapy)
Hanno Riess, Uwe Pelzer, Andreas Hilbig, Jens Stieler, Bernhard Opitz, Theo Scholten, Dörte Kauschat-Brüning, Peter Bramlage, Bernd Dörken, and Helmut Oettle
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 361. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-361.
PMCID: PMC2613915
Technical Advances
Rapid detection of carriers with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations using high resolution melting analysis
Elena A Takano, Gillian Mitchell, Stephen B Fox, and Alexander Dobrovic
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 59. Published online 2008 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-59.
PMCID: PMC2266761
Detection of methylation in promoter sequences by melting curve analysis-based semiquantitative real time PCR
Aiala Lorente, Wolf Mueller, Edurne Urdangarín, Paula Lázcoz, Andreas von Deimling, and Javier S Castresana
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 61. Published online 2008 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-61.
PMCID: PMC2266933
A novel circular invasion assay mimics in vivo invasive behavior of cancer cell lines and distinguishes single-cell motility in vitro
Yoonseok Kam, Cherise Guess, Lourdes Estrada, Brandy Weidow, and Vito Quaranta
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 198. Published online 2008 July 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-198.
PMCID: PMC2491634
A high-throughput and sensitive method to measure Global DNA Methylation: Application in Lung Cancer
Anthony Anisowicz, Hui Huang, Karen I Braunschweiger, Ziying Liu, Heidi Giese, Huajun Wang, Sergey Mamaev, Jerzy Olejnik, Pierre P Massion, and Richard G Del Mastro
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 222. Published online 2008 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-222.
PMCID: PMC2546425
Gene expression variation between distinct areas of breast cancer measured from paraffin-embedded tissue cores
Martina Schobesberger, Anna Baltzer, Andrea Oberli, Andreas Kappeler, Mathias Gugger, Hana Burger, and Rolf Jaggi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 343. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-343.
PMCID: PMC2596175
Research Articles
Carbonic anhydrase IX in oligodendroglial brain tumors
Sally Järvelä, Seppo Parkkila, Helena Bragge, Marketta Kähkönen, Anna-Kaisa Parkkila, Ylermi Soini, Silvia Pastorekova, Jaromir Pastorek, and Hannu Haapasalo
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 1. Published online 2008 January 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-1.
PMCID: PMC2245965
Interstitial fluid pressure, vascularity and metastasis in ectopic, orthotopic and spontaneous tumours
Sarah Jane Lunt, Tuula MK Kalliomaki, Allison Brown, Victor X Yang, Michael Milosevic, and Richard P Hill
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 2. Published online 2008 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-2.
PMCID: PMC2245966
Genomic activation of the EGFR and HER2-neu genes in a significant proportion of invasive epithelial ovarian cancers
Joanna Vermeij, Erik Teugels, Claire Bourgain, Ji Xiangming, Peter in 't Veld, Vanessa Ghislain, Bart Neyns, and Jacques De Grève
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 3. Published online 2008 January 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-3.
PMCID: PMC2266762
Coexpression of VEGF-C and COX-2 and its association with lymphangiogenesis in human breast cancer
Xiao-Hua Zhang, Du-Ping Huang, Gui-Long Guo, Guo-Rong Chen, Hu-Xiang Zhang, Li Wan, and Sheng-Ying Chen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 4. Published online 2008 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-4.
PMCID: PMC2253544
Resectable adenocarcinomas in the pancreatic head: the retroperitoneal resection margin is an independent prognostic factor
Arne Westgaard, Svetlana Tafjord, Inger N Farstad, Milada Cvancarova, Tor J Eide, Oystein Mathisen, Ole Petter F Clausen, and Ivar P Gladhaug
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 5. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-5.
PMCID: PMC2249586
Combined effect of CCND1 and COMT polymorphisms and increased breast cancer risk
Ummiye V Onay, Kirsimari Aaltonen, Laurent Briollais, Julia A Knight, Noel Pabalan, Outi Kilpivaara, Irene L Andrulis, Carl Blomqvist, Heli Nevanlinna, and Hilmi Ozcelik
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 6. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-6.
PMCID: PMC2254632
Father's occupational exposure to carcinogenic agents and childhood acute leukemia: a new method to assess exposure (a case-control study)
Maria Luisa Perez-Saldivar, Manuel Carlos Ortega-Alvarez, Arturo Fajardo-Gutierrez, Roberto Bernaldez-Rios, Maria de los Angeles del Campo-Martinez, Aurora Medina-Sanson, Miguel Angel Palomo-Colli, Rogelio Paredes-Aguilera, Armando Martínez-Avalos, Victor Hugo Borja-Aburto, Maria de Jesus Rodriguez-Rivera, Victor Manuel Vargas-Garcia, Jesus Zarco-Contreras, Janet Flores-Lujano, and Juan Manuel Mejia-Arangure
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 7. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-7.
PMCID: PMC2245964
Chemoradiotherapy with or without consolidation chemotherapy using cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil in anal squamous cell carcinoma: long-term results in 31 patients
Byoung Chul Cho, Joong Bae Ahn, Jinsil Seong, Jae Kyung Roh, Joo Hang Kim, Hyun Cheol Chung, Joo Hyuk Sohn, and Nam Kyu Kim
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 8. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-8.
PMCID: PMC2245963
The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors, simvastatin, lovastatin and mevastatin inhibit proliferation and invasion of melanoma cells
Sharon A Glynn, Dermot O'Sullivan, Alex J Eustace, Martin Clynes, and Norma O'Donovan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 9. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-9.
PMCID: PMC2253545
Epidermal growth factor receptor structural alterations in gastric cancer
Cátia Moutinho, Ana R Mateus, Fernanda Milanezi, Fátima Carneiro, Raquel Seruca, and Gianpaolo Suriano
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 10. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-10.
PMCID: PMC2244615
Prospective single-arm study of 72 Gy hyperfractionated radiation therapy and combination chemotherapy for anaplastic astrocytomas
Takuma Nomiya, Kenji Nemoto, Toshihiro Kumabe, Yoshihiro Takai, and Shogo Yamada
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 11. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-11.
PMCID: PMC2254433
Poly I:C enhances cycloheximide-induced apoptosis of tumor cells through TLR3 pathway
Qun Jiang, Haiming Wei, and Zhigang Tian
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 12. Published online 2008 January 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-12.
PMCID: PMC2242792
Clone-specific expression, transcriptional regulation, and action of interleukin-6 in human colon carcinoma cells
Wolfgang Brozek, Giovanna Bises, Gerhild Fabjani, Heide S Cross, and Meinrad Peterlik
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 13. Published online 2008 January 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-13.
PMCID: PMC2257953
Loss of Endocan tumorigenic properties after alternative splicing of exon 2
Florence Depontieu, Bogdan-Dragos Grigoriu, Arnaud Scherpereel, Estelle Adam, Maryse Delehedde, Philippe Gosset, and Philippe Lassalle
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 14. Published online 2008 January 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-14.
PMCID: PMC2254430
Impairment of intellectual functions after surgery and posterior fossa irradiation in children with ependymoma is related to age and neurologic complications
Katja von Hoff, Virginie Kieffer, Jean-Louis Habrand, Chantal Kalifa, Georges Dellatolas, and Jacques Grill
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 15. Published online 2008 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-15.
PMCID: PMC2254428
Augmented serum level of major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A (MICA) protein and reduced NKG2D expression on NK and T cells in patients with cervical cancer and precursor lesions
Naela A Arreygue-Garcia, Adrian Daneri-Navarro, Alicia del Toro-Arreola, Angel Cid-Arregui, Oscar Gonzalez-Ramella, Luis F Jave-Suarez, Adriana Aguilar-Lemarroy, Rogelio Troyo-Sanroman, Alejandro Bravo-Cuellar, Vidal Delgado-Rizo, Trinidad Garcia-Iglesias, Georgina Hernandez-Flores, and Susana del Toro-Arreola
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 16. Published online 2008 January 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-16.
PMCID: PMC2270854
Ovarian carcinomas with genetic and epigenetic BRCA1 loss have distinct molecular abnormalities
Joshua Z Press, Alessandro De Luca, Niki Boyd, Sean Young, Armelle Troussard, Yolanda Ridge, Pardeep Kaurah, Steve E Kalloger, Katherine A Blood, Margaret Smith, Paul T Spellman, Yuker Wang, Dianne M Miller, Doug Horsman, Malek Faham, C Blake Gilks, Joe Gray, and David G Huntsman
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 17. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-17.
PMCID: PMC2245962
Expression profiling to predict the clinical behaviour of ovarian cancer fails independent evaluation
Olivier Gevaert, Frank De Smet, Toon Van Gorp, Nathalie Pochet, Kristof Engelen, Frederic Amant, Bart De Moor, Dirk Timmerman, and Ignace Vergote
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 18. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-18.
PMCID: PMC2259320
Suppression subtractive hybridization profiles of radial growth phase and metastatic melanoma cell lines reveal novel potential targets
Josane F Sousa and Enilza M Espreafico
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 19. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-19.
PMCID: PMC2267200
Identification of genes for normalization of real-time RT-PCR data in breast carcinomas
Maria B Lyng, Anne-Vibeke Lænkholm, Niels Pallisgaard, and Henrik J Ditzel
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 20. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-20.
PMCID: PMC2248196
Comparison of mouse mammary gland imaging techniques and applications: Reflectance confocal microscopy, GFP Imaging, and ultrasound
Maddalena T Tilli, Angela R Parrish, Ion Cotarla, Laundette P Jones, Michael D Johnson, and Priscilla A Furth
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 21. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-21.
PMCID: PMC2266934
Treatment delay of bone tumours, compilation of a sociodemographic risk profile: A retrospective study
Christoph Schnurr, Mathias Pippan, Hartmut Stuetzer, Karl S Delank, Joern WP Michael, and Peer Eysel
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 22. Published online 2008 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-22.
PMCID: PMC2263056
A complex pattern of chemokine receptor expression is seen in osteosarcoma
Irene von Luettichau, Stephan Segerer, Alexandra Wechselberger, Mike Notohamiprodjo, Michaela Nathrath, Markus Kremer, Anna Henger, Roghieh Djafarzadeh, Stefan Burdach, Ralf Huss, and Peter J Nelson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 23. Published online 2008 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-23.
PMCID: PMC2257957
Metabolic and morphological alterations induced by proteolysis-inducing factor from Walker tumour-bearing rats in C2C12 myotubes
Claudia L Yano, Gislaine Ventrucci, William N Field, Michael J Tisdale, and Maria Cristina C Gomes-Marcondes
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 24. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-24.
PMCID: PMC2266935
Frequent expression loss of Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain (ITIH) genes in multiple human solid tumors: A systematic expression analysis
Alexander Hamm, Juergen Veeck, Nuran Bektas, Peter J Wild, Arndt Hartmann, Uwe Heindrichs, Glen Kristiansen, Tamra Werbowetski-Ogilvie, Rolando Del Maestro, Ruth Knuechel, and Edgar Dahl
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 25. Published online 2008 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-25.
PMCID: PMC2268946
Salvage radiotherapy for patients with PSA relapse after radical prostatectomy: a single institution experience
Laurent Quero, Pierre Mongiat-Artus, Vincent Ravery, Claude Maylin, François Desgrandchamps, and Christophe Hennequin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 26. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-26.
PMCID: PMC2257956
TP53 status and taxane-platinum versus platinum-based therapy in ovarian cancer patients: A non-randomized retrospective study
Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Ewa Kraszewska, Izabela Ziolkowska-Seta, Radoslaw Madry, Agnieszka Timorek, Janina Markowska, Jerzy Stelmachow, Mariusz Bidzinski, and the Polish Ovarian Cancer Study Group (POCSG)
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 27. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-27.
PMCID: PMC2268700
Markers of subtypes in inflammatory breast cancer studied by immunohistochemistry: Prominent expression of P-cadherin
Azza Ben Hamida, Intidhar S Labidi, Karima Mrad, Emmanuelle Charafe-Jauffret, Saïda Ben Arab, Benjamin Esterni, Luc Xerri, Patrice Viens, François Bertucci, Daniel Birnbaum, and Jocelyne Jacquemier
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 28. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-28.
PMCID: PMC2267802
Overexpression of CDC2/CyclinB1 in gliomas, and CDC2 depletion inhibits proliferation of human glioma cells in vitro and in vivo
Hua Chen, Qiang Huang, Jun Dong, De-Zhong Zhai, Ai-Dong Wang, and Qing Lan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 29. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-29.
PMCID: PMC2270850
Retinoic acid reduces human neuroblastoma cell migration and invasiveness: effects on DCX, LIS1, neurofilaments-68 and vimentin expression
Elio Messi, Maria C Florian, Claudio Caccia, Mariarosa Zanisi, and Roberto Maggi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 30. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-30.
PMCID: PMC2254429
The impact of comorbidity and stage on ovarian cancer mortality: A nationwide Danish cohort study
Mette S Tetsche, Claus Dethlefsen, Lars Pedersen, Henrik T Sorensen, and Mette Norgaard
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 31. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-31.
PMCID: PMC2266760
Importance of TP53 codon 72 and intron 3 duplication 16bp polymorphisms in prediction of susceptibility on breast cancer
Sandra Costa, Daniela Pinto, Deolinda Pereira, Helena Rodrigues, Jorge Cameselle-Teijeiro, Rui Medeiros, and Fernando Schmitt
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 32. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-32.
PMCID: PMC2254432
Cyclooxygenase-2 overexpression is common in serrated and non-serrated colorectal adenoma, but uncommon in hyperplastic polyp and sessile serrated polyp/adenoma
Takako Kawasaki, Katsuhiko Nosho, Mutsuko Ohnishi, Yuko Suemoto, Jonathan N Glickman, Andrew T Chan, Gregory J Kirkner, Mari Mino-Kenudson, Charles S Fuchs, and Shuji Ogino
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 33. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-33.
PMCID: PMC2257954
Stimulated monocyte IL-6 secretion predicts survival of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
John-Helge Heimdal, Kenneth Kross, Beate Klementsen, Jan Olofsson, and Hans Jørgen Aarstad
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 34. Published online 2008 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-34.
PMCID: PMC2266932
Spatio-temporal evolution of female lung cancer mortality in a region of Spain, is it worth taking migration into account?
Oscar Zurriaga, Hermelinda Vanaclocha, Miguel A Martinez-Beneito, and Paloma Botella-Rocamora
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 35. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-35.
PMCID: PMC2267803
COX-2 and PPARγ expression are potential markers of recurrence risk in mammary duct carcinoma in-situ
Swati Kulkarni, Deepa B Patil, Leslie K Diaz, Elizabeth L Wiley, Monica Morrow, and Seema A Khan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 36. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-36.
PMCID: PMC2254431
Bioinformatic identification of FGF, p38-MAPK, and calcium signalling pathways associated with carcinoma in situ in the urinary bladder
Malene Herbsleb, Ole F Christensen, Thomas Thykjaer, Carsten Wiuf, Michael Borre, Torben F Ørntoft, and Lars Dyrskjøt
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 37. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-37.
PMCID: PMC2268699
Development of fragment-specific osteopontin antibodies and ELISA for quantification in human metastatic breast cancer
Alicia Plumer, Hongyi Duan, Sripriya Subramaniam, F Lee Lucas, Susan Miesfeldt, Ah-Kau Ng, and Lucy Liaw
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 38. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-38.
PMCID: PMC2259319
Clinical significance of gelsolin-like actin-capping protein expression in oral carcinogenesis: an immunohistochemical study of premalignant and malignant lesions of the oral cavity
Hitomi Nomura, Katsuhiro Uzawa, Takashi Ishigami, Yukinao Kouzu, Hirofumi Koike, Katsunori Ogawara, Masashi Siiba, Hiroki Bukawa, Hidetaka Yokoe, Hitoshi Kubosawa, and Hideki Tanzawa
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 39. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-39.
PMCID: PMC2263057
Flow-cytometric monitoring of disease-associated expression of 9-O-acetylated sialoglycoproteins in combination with known CD antigens, as an index for MRD in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a two-year longitudinal follow-up study
Suchandra Chowdhury, Suman Bandyopadhyay, Chandan Mandal, Sarmila Chandra, and Chitra Mandal
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 40. Published online 2008 February 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-40.
PMCID: PMC2268943
NF-kappa B genes have a major role in Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Florence Lerebours, Sophie Vacher, Catherine Andrieu, Marc Espie, Michel Marty, Rosette Lidereau, and Ivan Bieche
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 41. Published online 2008 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-41.
PMCID: PMC2267801
Tight correlation between expression of the Forkhead transcription factor FOXM1 and HER2 in human breast cancer
Nuran Bektas, Anette ten Haaf, Jürgen Veeck, Peter Johannes Wild, Juliane Lüscher-Firzlaff, Arndt Hartmann, Ruth Knüchel, and Edgar Dahl
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 42. Published online 2008 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-42.
PMCID: PMC2265720
Immunohistochemical analysis of changes in signaling pathway activation downstream of growth factor receptors in pancreatic duct cell carcinogenesis
Nhu-An Pham, Joerg Schwock, Vladimir Iakovlev, Greg Pond, David W Hedley, and Ming-Sound Tsao
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 43. Published online 2008 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-43.
PMCID: PMC2270852
Detection of mismatch repair gene germline mutation carrier among Chinese population with colorectal cancer
Hei-Ying Jin, Xiufang Liu, Vicky Ka Ming Li, Yijiang Ding, Bolin Yang, Jianxiang Geng, Rensheng Lai, Shuqing Ding, Min Ni, and Ronghua Zhao
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 44. Published online 2008 February 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-44.
PMCID: PMC2275286
Cervical squamous carcinoma cells are resistant to the combined action of tumor necrosis factor-α and histamine whereas normal keratinocytes undergo cytolysis
Nicolae-Costin Diaconu, Jaana Rummukainen, Mikko Mättö, Anita Naukkarinen, Rauno J Harvima, Jukka Pelkonen, and Ilkka T Harvima
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 46. Published online 2008 February 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-46.
PMCID: PMC2259318
Rosiglitazone inhibits metastasis development of a murine mammary tumor cell line LMM3
Gabriela Magenta, Ximena Borenstein, Romina Rolando, and María Adela Jasnis
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 47. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-47.
PMCID: PMC2268944
Expression of the "stem cell marker" CD133 in pancreas and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas
Heike Immervoll, Dag Hoem, Per Øystein Sakariassen, Ole Johnny Steffensen, and Anders Molven
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 48. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-48.
PMCID: PMC2268945
Celecoxib concentration predicts decrease in prostaglandin E2 concentrations in nipple aspirate fluid from high risk women
Edward R Sauter, Wenyi Qin, John E Hewett, Rachel L Ruhlen, John T Flynn, George Rottinghaus, and Yin-Chieh Chen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 49. Published online 2008 February 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-49.
PMCID: PMC2259321
ERCC2 2251A>C genetic polymorphism was highly correlated with early relapse in high-risk stage II and stage III colorectal cancer patients: A preliminary study
Ming-Yii Huang, Wei-Yu Fang, Su-Chen Lee, Tian-Lu Cheng, Jaw-Yuan Wang, and Shiu-Ru Lin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 50. Published online 2008 February 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-50.
PMCID: PMC2262891
Zosuquidar restores drug sensitivity in P-glycoprotein expressing acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Ruoping Tang, Anne-Marie Faussat, Jean-Yves Perrot, Zora Marjanovic, Simy Cohen, Thomas Storme, Hamid Morjani, Ollivier Legrand, and Jean-Pierre Marie
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 51. Published online 2008 February 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-51.
PMCID: PMC2258302
Mutation analysis of the MDM4 gene in German breast cancer patients
Scarlett Reincke, Lina Govbakh, Bettina Wilhelm, Haiyan Jin, Natalia Bogdanova, Michael Bremer, Johann H Karstens, and Thilo Dörk
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 52. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-52.
PMCID: PMC2259322
K-ras mutations in sinonasal cancers in relation to wood dust exposure
Jette Bornholdt, Johnni Hansen, Torben Steiniche, Michael Dictor, Annemarie Antonsen, Henrik Wolff, Vivi Schlünssen, Reetta Holmila, Danièle Luce, Ulla Vogel, Kirsti Husgafvel-Pursiainen, and Håkan Wallin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 53. Published online 2008 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-53.
PMCID: PMC2278146
A haplotype of polymorphisms in ASE-1, RAI and ERCC1 and the effects of tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption on risk of colorectal cancer: a danish prospective case-cohort study
Rikke D Hansen, Mette Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, Kim Overvad, Håkan Wallin, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, and Ulla Vogel
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 54. Published online 2008 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-54.
PMCID: PMC2263058
Detection of mammaglobin mRNA in peripheral blood is associated with high grade breast cancer: Interim results of a prospective cohort study
Kaidi Mikhitarian, Renee Hebert Martin, Megan Baker Ruppel, William E Gillanders, Rana Hoda, Del H Schutte, Kathi Callahan, Michael Mitas, and David J Cole
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 55. Published online 2008 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-55.
PMCID: PMC2292197
Incidence of reversible amenorrhea in women with breast cancer undergoing adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy with or without docetaxel
Martine Berliere, Florence Dalenc, Nathalie Malingret, Anita Vindevogel, Philippe Piette, Henry Roche, Jacques Donnez, Michel Symann, Joseph Kerger, and Jean-Pascal Machiels
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 56. Published online 2008 February 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-56.
PMCID: PMC2287183
FOXP3+ Tregs and B7-H1+/PD-1+ T lymphocytes co-infiltrate the tumor tissues of high-risk breast cancer patients: Implication for immunotherapy
Hazem Ghebeh, Eman Barhoush, Asma Tulbah, Naser Elkum, Taher Al-Tweigeri, and Said Dermime
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 57. Published online 2008 February 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-57.
PMCID: PMC2279136
Berberine enhances inhibition of glioma tumor cell migration and invasiveness mediated by arsenic trioxide
Tseng-Hsi Lin, Hsing-Chun Kuo, Fen-Pi Chou, and Fung-Jou Lu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 58. Published online 2008 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-58.
PMCID: PMC2275285
Do genetic factors protect for early onset lung cancer? A case control study before the age of 50 years
Albert Rosenberger, Thomas Illig, Katrin Korb, Norman Klopp, Vera Zietemann, Gabi Wölke, Eckart Meese, Gerhard Sybrecht, Florian Kronenberg, Matthias Cebulla, Maria Degen, Peter Drings, Andreas Gröschel, Nikolaus Konietzko, Karsten grosse Kreymborg, Karl Häußinger, Gerd Höffken, Bettina Jilge, You-Dschun Ko, Harald Morr, Christine Schmidt, E-Wilhelm Schmidt, Dagmar Täuscher, Heike Bickeböller, and H-Erich Wichmann
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 60. Published online 2008 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-60.
PMCID: PMC2292731
Neoadjuvant letrozole in postmenopausal estrogen and/or progesterone receptor positive breast cancer: A phase IIb/III trial to investigate optimal duration of preoperative endocrine therapy
Ute E Krainick-Strobel, Werner Lichtenegger, Diethelm Wallwiener, Augustinus H Tulusan, Fritz Jänicke, Gunther Bastert, Ludwig Kiesel, Birgit Wackwitz, and Stefan Paepke
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 62. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-62.
PMCID: PMC2270851
A prospective study of physical activity and the risk of pancreatic cancer among women (United States)
Brook A Calton, Rachael Z Stolzenberg-Solomon, Steven C Moore, Arthur Schatzkin, Catherine Schairer, Demetrius Albanes, and Michael F Leitzmann
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 63. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-63.
PMCID: PMC2277426
Lymph vascular invasion in invasive mammary carcinomas identified by the endothelial lymphatic marker D2-40 is associated with other indicators of poor prognosis
Vanessa FZ Marinho, Konradin Metze, Fernanda SF Sanches, Gislene FS Rocha, and Helenice Gobbi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 64. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-64.
PMCID: PMC2294134
Comparative study of the radiosensitising and cell cycle effects of vinflunine and vinorelbine, in vitro
Cindy Simoens, Filip Lardon, Bea Pauwels, Christel MJ De Pooter, Hilde AJ Lambrechts, Greet GO Pattyn, Fabienne Breillout, and Jan B Vermorken
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 65. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-65.
PMCID: PMC2311317
New models and online calculator for predicting non-sentinel lymph node status in sentinel lymph node positive breast cancer patients
Holbrook E Kohrt, Richard A Olshen, Honnie R Bermas, William H Goodson, Douglas J Wood, Solomon Henry, Robert V Rouse, Lisa Bailey, Vicki J Philben, Frederick M Dirbas, Jocelyn J Dunn, Denise L Johnson, Irene L Wapnir, Robert W Carlson, Frank E Stockdale, Nora M Hansen, Stefanie S Jeffrey, and The Bay Area SLN Study
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 66. Published online 2008 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-66.
PMCID: PMC2311316
CDKN1C/p57kip2 is a candidate tumor suppressor gene in human breast cancer
Pamela S Larson, Benjamin L Schlechter, Chia-Lin King, Qiong Yang, Chelsea N Glass, Charline Mack, Robert Pistey, Antonio de las Morenas, and Carol L Rosenberg
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 68. Published online 2008 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-68.
PMCID: PMC2323395
Tissue factor/FVIIa activates Bcl-2 and prevents doxorubicin-induced apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells
Jun Fang, Lubing Gu, Ningxi Zhu, Hao Tang, Carlos S Alvarado, and Muxiang Zhou
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 69. Published online 2008 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-69.
PMCID: PMC2275284
Expression and clinical significance of Glucose Regulated Proteins GRP78 (BiP) and GRP94 (GP96) in human adenocarcinomas of the esophagus
Rupert Langer, Marcus Feith, Joerg Rüdiger Siewert, Hans-Juergen Wester, and Heinz Hoefler
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 70. Published online 2008 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-70.
PMCID: PMC2270853
Comprehensive analysis of NuMA variation in breast cancer
Outi Kilpivaara, Matias Rantanen, Anitta Tamminen, Kristiina Aittomäki, Carl Blomqvist, and Heli Nevanlinna
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 71. Published online 2008 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-71.
PMCID: PMC2311318
Thymostimulin in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: A phase II trial
Matthias M Dollinger, Christa M Behrens, Joachim Lesske, Susanne Behl, Curd Behrmann, and Wolfgang E Fleig
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 72. Published online 2008 March 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-72.
PMCID: PMC2323008
In vivo measurement of tumor estradiol and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in breast cancer patients
Stina Garvin and Charlotta Dabrosin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 73. Published online 2008 March 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-73.
PMCID: PMC2279135
Aminopeptidase N (APN)/CD13 inhibitor, Ubenimex, enhances radiation sensitivity in human cervical cancer
Hirohisa Tsukamoto, Kiyosumi Shibata, Hiroaki Kajiyama, Mikio Terauchi, Akihiro Nawa, and Fumitaka Kikkawa
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 74. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-74.
PMCID: PMC2289833
Epithelial cells in nipple aspirate fluid and subsequent breast cancer risk: A historic prospective study
Kimberly A Baltzell, Michelle Moghadassi, Terri Rice, Jennette D Sison, and Margaret Wrensch
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 75. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-75.
PMCID: PMC2292198
Expression of TNF-superfamily members BAFF and APRIL in breast cancer: Immunohistochemical study in 52 invasive ductal breast carcinomas
Vassiliki Pelekanou, Marilena Kampa, Maria Kafousi, Katerina Darivianaki, Elias Sanidas, Dimitrios D Tsiftsis, Efstathios N Stathopoulos, Andreas Tsapis, and Elias Castanas
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 76. Published online 2008 March 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-76.
PMCID: PMC2323393
Plasma MMP1 and MMP8 expression in breast cancer: Protective role of MMP8 against lymph node metastasis
Julie Decock, Wouter Hendrickx, Ulla Vanleeuw, Vanya Van Belle, Sabine Van Huffel, Marie-Rose Christiaens, Shu Ye, and Robert Paridaens
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 77. Published online 2008 March 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-77.
PMCID: PMC2278147
The immunomodulator PSK induces in vitro cytotoxic activity in tumour cell lines via arrest of cell cycle and induction of apoptosis
Eva Jiménez-Medina, Enrique Berruguilla, Irene Romero, Ignacio Algarra, Antonia Collado, Federico Garrido, and Angel Garcia-Lora
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 78. Published online 2008 March 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-78.
PMCID: PMC2291471
Increased expression of EphA7 correlates with adverse outcome in primary and recurrent glioblastoma multiforme patients
Lin-Fang Wang, Emmanouil Fokas, Janko Juricko, An You, Frank Rose, Axel Pagenstecher, Rita Engenhart-Cabillic, and Han-Xiang An
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 79. Published online 2008 March 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-79.
PMCID: PMC2292196
Self evaluation of communication experiences after laryngeal cancer – A longitudinal questionnaire study in patients with laryngeal cancer
Mia Johansson, Anna Rydén, and Caterina Finizia
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 80. Published online 2008 March 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-80.
PMCID: PMC2329650
Alendronate decreases orthotopic PC-3 prostate tumor growth and metastasis to prostate-draining lymph nodes in nude mice
Johanna M Tuomela, Maija P Valta, Kalervo Väänänen, and Pirkko L Härkönen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 81. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-81.
PMCID: PMC2294135
Meta-analysis of randomized trials: evaluation of benefit from gemcitabine-based combination chemotherapy applied in advanced pancreatic cancer
Volker Heinemann, Stefan Boeck, Axel Hinke, Roberto Labianca, and Christophe Louvet
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 82. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-82.
PMCID: PMC2292732
Tumor-derived Matrix Metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) correlates with poor prognoses of invasive breast cancer
Bin Zhang, Xuchen Cao, Yanxue Liu, Wenfeng Cao, Fei Zhang, Shiwu Zhang, Hongtao Li, Liansheng Ning, Li Fu, Yun Niu, Ruifang Niu, Baocun Sun, and Xishan Hao
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 83. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-83.
PMCID: PMC2362123
Systematic review of the clinical effect of glucocorticoids on nonhematologic malignancy
Bruce D Keith
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 84. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-84.
PMCID: PMC2330150
Val103Ile polymorphism of the melanocortin-4 receptor gene (MC4R) in cancer cachexia
Susanne Knoll, Sabiene Zimmer, Anke Hinney, André Scherag, Andreas Neubauer, and Johannes Hebebrand
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 85. Published online 2008 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-85.
PMCID: PMC2359760
Primary breast lymphoma: Patient profile, outcome and prognostic factors. A multicentre Rare Cancer Network study
Wendy Jeanneret-Sozzi, Alphonse Taghian, Ron Epelbaum, Philip Poortmans, Daniel Zwahlen, Beat Amsler, Sylviane Villette, Yazid Belkacémi, Tan Nguyen, Pierre Scalliet, Philippe Maingon, Cristina Gutiérrez, Pauline Gastelblum, Marco Krengli, Rita Abi Raad, Mahmut Ozsahin, and René-Olivier Mirimanoff
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 86. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-86.
PMCID: PMC2330152
Genome-wide linkage scan for colorectal cancer susceptibility genes supports linkage to chromosome 3q
Simone Picelli, Jana Vandrovcova, Siân Jones, Tatjana Djureinovic, Johanna Skoglund, Xiao-Lei Zhou, Victor E Velculescu, Bert Vogelstein, and Annika Lindblom
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 87. Published online 2008 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-87.
PMCID: PMC2324103
The assessment of angiogenesis and fibroblastic stromagenesis in hyperplastic and pre-invasive breast lesions
Kitty Pavlakis, Irene Messini, Thomas Vrekoussis, Petros Yiannou, Dimitrios Keramopoullos, Niki Louvrou, Theodoros Liakakos, and Efstathios N Stathopoulos
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 88. Published online 2008 April 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-88.
PMCID: PMC2323394
Sex-specific incidence and temporal trends in solid tumours in young people from Northern England, 1968–2005
Brooke L Magnanti, M Tevfik Dorak, Louise Parker, Alan W Craft, Peter W James, and Richard JQ McNally
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 89. Published online 2008 April 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-89.
PMCID: PMC2358914
Ovarian cancer risk in Polish BRCA1 mutation carriers is not associated with the prohibitin 3' untranslated region polymorphism
Anna Jakubowska, Jacek Gronwald, Janusz Menkiszak, Bohdan Górski, Tomasz Huzarski, Tomasz Byrski, Axel Benner, Jan Lubiński, Rodney J Scott, and Ute Hamann
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 90. Published online 2008 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-90.
PMCID: PMC2364631
The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer – An emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank
Sambit K Mohanty, Amita T Mistry, Waqas Amin, Anil V Parwani, Andrew K Pople, Linda Schmandt, Sharon B Winters, Erin Milliken, Paula Kim, Nancy B Whelan, Ghada Farhat, Jonathan Melamed, Emanuela Taioli, Rajiv Dhir, Harvey I Pass, and Michael J Becich
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 91. Published online 2008 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-91.
PMCID: PMC2329649
Altered regulation of Prox1-gene-expression in liver tumors
Jozsef Dudas, Tümen Mansuroglu, Federico Moriconi, Florian Haller, Joerg Wilting, Thomas Lorf, Laszlo Füzesi, and Giuliano Ramadori
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 92. Published online 2008 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-92.
PMCID: PMC2359759
Management of SPN in France. Pathways for definitive diagnosis of solitary pulmonary nodule: a multicentre study in 18 French districts
Kazem Alzahouri, Michel Velten, Patrick Arveux, Marie-Christine Woronoff-Lemsi, Damien Jolly, and Francis Guillemin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 93. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-93.
PMCID: PMC2373300
Prodrug converting enzyme gene delivery by L. monocytogenes
Jochen Stritzker, Sabine Pilgrim, Aladar A Szalay, and Werner Goebel
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 94. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-94.
PMCID: PMC2329648
Facile whole mitochondrial genome resequencing from nipple aspirate fluid using MitoChip v2.0
John P Jakupciak, Andrea Maggrah, Samantha Maragh, Jennifer Maki, Brian Reguly, Katrina Maki, Roy Wittock, Kerry Robinson, Paul D Wagner, Robert E Thayer, Ken Gehman, Teresa Gehman, Sudhir Srivastava, Alioune Ngom, Gabriel D Dakubo, and Ryan L Parr
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 95. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-95.
PMCID: PMC2375897
Haplotype analysis of TP53 polymorphisms, Arg72Pro and Ins16, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers of French Canadian descent
Luca Cavallone, Suzanna L Arcand, Christine Maugard, Parviz Ghadirian, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, Diane Provencher, and Patricia N Tonin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 96. Published online 2008 April 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-96.
PMCID: PMC2329651
ERCC1 and BRCA1 mRNA expression levels in metastatic malignant effusions is associated with chemosensitivity to cisplatin and/or docetaxel
Lifeng Wang, Jia Wei, Xiaoping Qian, Haitao Yin, Yang Zhao, Lixia Yu, Tingting Wang, and Baorui Liu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 97. Published online 2008 April 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-97.
PMCID: PMC2394535
Prognostic Impact of Array-based Genomic Profiles in Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer
Ana Carneiro, Anna Isinger, Anna Karlsson, Jan Johansson, Göran Jönsson, Pär-Ola Bendahl, Dan Falkenback, Britta Halvarsson, and Mef Nilbert
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 98. Published online 2008 April 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-98.
PMCID: PMC2374796
Apoptosis induction in Jurkat cells and sCD95 levels in women's sera are related with the risk of developing cervical cancer
Adriana Aguilar-Lemarroy, Jose E Romero-Ramos, Vicente Olimon-Andalon, Georgina Hernandez-Flores, Jose M Lerma-Diaz, Pablo C Ortiz-Lazareno, Gilberto Morgan-Villela, Susana del Toro-Arreola, Alejandro Bravo-Cuellar, and Luis F Jave-Suarez
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 99. Published online 2008 April 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-99.
PMCID: PMC2330055
Expression of estrogen receptor beta in the breast carcinoma of BRCA1 mutation carriers
Maria M Litwiniuk, Krzysztof Rożnowski, Violetta Filas, Dariusz D Godlewski, Małgorzata Stawicka, Remigiusz Kaleta, and Jan Bręborowicz
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 100. Published online 2008 April 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-100.
PMCID: PMC2387169
Coordinated prophylactic surgical management for women with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome
Larissa I Batista, Karen H Lu, Elisabeth K Beahm, Banu K Arun, Diane C Bodurka, and Funda Meric-Bernstam
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 101. Published online 2008 April 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-101.
PMCID: PMC2362122
Self-testing for cancer: a community survey
Sue Wilson, Angela V Ryan, Sheila M Greenfield, Sue C Clifford, Roger L Holder, Helen M Pattison, David A Fitzmaurice, and Richard J McManus
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 102. Published online 2008 April 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-102.
PMCID: PMC2330151
Pharmacokinetic characteristics and anticancer effects of 5-Fluorouracil loaded nanoparticles
Su Li, Anxun Wang, Wenqi Jiang, and Zhongzhen Guan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 103. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-103.
PMCID: PMC2375900
Impact of organised programs on colorectal cancer screening
François Eisinger, Laurent Cals, Anne Calazel-Benque, Jean-Yves Blay, Yvan Coscas, Sylvie Dolbeault, Moïse Namer, Xavier Pivot, Olivier Rixe, Daniel Serin, Claire Roussel, Jean-François Morère, and The EDIFICE committee
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 104. Published online 2008 April 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-104.
PMCID: PMC2373301
ATBF1 and NQO1 as candidate targets for allelic loss at chromosome arm 16q in breast cancer: Absence of somatic ATBF1 mutations and no role for the C609T NQO1 polymorphism
Anne-Marie Cleton-Jansen, Ronald van Eijk, Marcel Lombaerts, Marjanka K Schmidt, Laura J Van't Veer, Katja Philippo, Rhyenne ME Zimmerman, Johannes L Peterse, Vincent TBHM Smit, Tom van Wezel, and Cees J Cornelisse
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 105. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-105.
PMCID: PMC2377272
Explorative data analysis of MCL reveals gene expression networks implicated in survival and prognosis supported by explorative CGH analysis
Steffen Blenk, Julia C Engelmann, Stefan Pinkert, Markus Weniger, Jörg Schultz, Andreas Rosenwald, Hans K Müller-Hermelink, Tobias Müller, and Thomas Dandekar
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 106. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-106.
PMCID: PMC2442114
Two-dimensional electrophoretic comparison of metastatic and non-metastatic human breast tumors using in vitro cultured epithelial cells derived from the cancer tissues
Jan Vydra, Irena Selicharová, Kateřina Smutná, Miloslav Šanda, Eva Matoušková, Eva Buršíková, Markéta Prchalová, Zuzana Velenská, David Coufal, and Jiří Jiráček
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 107. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-107.
PMCID: PMC2377273
Stem-cell-abundant proteins Nanog, Nucleostemin and Musashi1 are highly expressed in malignant cervical epithelial cells
Feng Ye, Caiyun Zhou, Qi Cheng, Jiajie Shen, and Huaizeng Chen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 108. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-108.
PMCID: PMC2387168
Implication of Xenobiotic Metabolizing Enzyme gene (CYP2E1, CYP2C19, CYP2D6, mEH and NAT2) Polymorphisms in Breast Carcinoma
Achraf Khedhaier, Elham Hassen, Noureddine Bouaouina, Sallouha Gabbouj, Slim Ben Ahmed, and Lotfi Chouchane
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 109. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-109.
PMCID: PMC2377277
Methylation alterations are not a major cause of PTTG1 missregulation
Manuel Hidalgo, Jose Jorge Galan, Carmen Sáez, Eduardo Ferrero, Carolina Castilla, Reposo Ramirez-Lorca, Pablo Pelaez, Agustin Ruiz, Miguel A Japón, and Jose Luis Royo
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 110. Published online 2008 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-110.
PMCID: PMC2377271
Quantum dots in axillary lymph node mapping: Biodistribution study in healthy mice
Anne Robe, Emilie Pic, Henri-Pierre Lassalle, Lina Bezdetnaya, François Guillemin, and Frédéric Marchal
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 111. Published online 2008 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-111.
PMCID: PMC2375898
Inflammatory response gene polymorphisms and their relationship with colorectal cancer risk
Janina Suchy, Ewa Kłujszo-Grabowska, Józef Kładny, Cezary Cybulski, Dominika Wokołorczyk, Jolanta Szymańska-Pasternak, Grzegorz Kurzawski, Rodney J Scott, and Jan Lubiński
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 112. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-112.
PMCID: PMC2386482
Early onset lung cancer, cigarette smoking and the SNP309 of the murine double minute-2 (MDM2) gene
Kirstin Mittelstrass, Wiebke Sauter, Albert Rosenberger, Thomas Illig, Maria Timofeeva, Norman Klopp, Hendrik Dienemann, Eckart Meese, Gerhard Sybrecht, Gabi Woelke, Mathias Cebulla, Maria Degen, Harald Morr, Peter Drings, Andreas Groeschel, Karsten Grosse Kreymborg, Karl Haeußinger, Gerd Hoeffken, Christine Schmidt, Bettina Jilge, Wilhelm Schmidt, You-Dschun Ko, Dagmar Taeuscher, Jenny Chang-Claude, Heinz-Erich Wichmann, Heike Bickeboeller, and Angela Risch
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 113. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-113.
PMCID: PMC2377274
Sequencing chemotherapy and radiotherapy in locoregional advanced breast cancer patients after mastectomy – a retrospective analysis
Marc D Piroth, Michael Pinkawa, Bernd Gagel, Sven Stanzel, Branka Asadpour, and Michael J Eble
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 114. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-114.
PMCID: PMC2377278
Clinical and prognostic analysis of hepatitis B virus infection in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Feng Wang, Rui-hua Xu, Hui-yan Luo, Dong-shen Zhang, Wen-qi Jiang, Hui-qiang Huang, Xiao-fei Sun, Zhong-jun Xia, and Zhong-zhen Guan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 115. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-115.
PMCID: PMC2377276
MDM2 gene SNP309 T/G and p53 gene SNP72 G/C do not influence diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma onset or survival in central European Caucasians
Joerg Bittenbring, Frédérique Parisot, Alain Wabo, Monika Mueller, Lynn Kerschenmeyer, Markus Kreuz, Lorenz Truemper, Olfert Landt, Alain Menzel, Michael Pfreundschuh, and Klaus Roemer
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 116. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-116.
PMCID: PMC2375899
Association of common ATM variants with familial breast cancer in a South American population
Patricio González-Hormazábal, Teresa Bravo, Rafael Blanco, Carlos Y Valenzuela, Fernando Gómez, Enrique Waugh, Octavio Peralta, Waldo Ortuzar, Jose M Reyes, and Lilian Jara
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 117. Published online 2008 April 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-117.
PMCID: PMC2386480
CD24 cross-linking induces apoptosis in, and inhibits migration of, MCF-7 breast cancer cells
Jong Bin Kim, Eunyoung Ko, Wonshik Han, Jeong Eon Lee, Kyung-Min Lee, Incheol Shin, Sangmin Kim, Jong Won Lee, Jihyoung Cho, Ji-Yeon Bae, Hyeon-Gun Jee, and Dong-Young Noh
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 118. Published online 2008 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-118.
PMCID: PMC2386794
A stable explant culture of HER2/neu invasive carcinoma supported by alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin expressing stromal cells to evaluate therapeutic agents
Marie P Piechocki
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 119. Published online 2008 April 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-119.
PMCID: PMC2377275
Importance of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in potentially curable colorectal cancer liver metastases
Birgit Gruenberger, Werner Scheithauer, Robert Punzengruber, Christoph Zielinski, Dietmar Tamandl, and Thomas Gruenberger
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 120. Published online 2008 April 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-120.
PMCID: PMC2386791
Proteomic analysis of differential proteins in pancreatic carcinomas: Effects of MBD1 knock-down by stable RNA interference
Chen Liu, Yaohui Chen, Xianjun Yu, Chen Jin, Jin Xu, Jiang Long, Quanxing Ni, Deliang Fu, Hong Jin, and Chen Bai
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 121. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-121.
PMCID: PMC2386481
Growth of human gastric cancer cells in nude mice is delayed by a ketogenic diet supplemented with omega-3 fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides
Christoph Otto, Ulrike Kaemmerer, Bertram Illert, Bettina Muehling, Nadja Pfetzer, Rainer Wittig, Hans Ullrich Voelker, Arnulf Thiede, and Johannes F Coy
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 122. Published online 2008 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-122.
PMCID: PMC2408928
Clinicopathologic significance of HIF-1α, p53, and VEGF expression and preoperative serum VEGF level in gastric cancer
Sung Yong Oh, Hyuk-Chan Kwon, Sung-Hyun Kim, Jin Seok Jang, Min Chan Kim, Kyeong Hee Kim, Jin-Yeong Han, Chung Ock Kim, Su-Jin Kim, Jin-sook Jeong, and Hyo-Jin Kim
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 123. Published online 2008 May 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-123.
PMCID: PMC2397429
Quantitative correlation between promoter methylation and messenger RNA levels of the reduced folate carrier
Rui Yang, Wei-Wei Li, Bang H Hoang, Hansoo Kim, Debabrata Banerjee, Albert Kheradpour, John H Healey, Paul A Meyers, Joseph R Bertino, and Richard Gorlick
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 124. Published online 2008 May 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-124.
PMCID: PMC2387170
Expression of TRPC6 channels in human epithelial breast cancer cells
Arnaud Guilbert, Isabelle Dhennin-Duthille, Yassine EL Hiani, Nathalie Haren, Hafida Khorsi, Henri Sevestre, Ahmed Ahidouch, and Halima Ouadid-Ahidouch
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 125. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-125.
PMCID: PMC2409351
Use of a cancer registry is preferable to a direct-to-community approach for recruitment to a cohort study of wellbeing in women newly diagnosed with invasive breast cancer
Marijana Lijovic, Susan R Davis, Pam Fradkin, Maria La China, Helen Farrugia, Rory Wolfe, and Robin J Bell
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 126. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-126.
PMCID: PMC2396174
Cancer Trajectories at the End of Life: is there an effect of age and gender?
Massimo Costantini, Monica Beccaro, and Irene J Higginson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 127. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-127.
PMCID: PMC2386793
Importance of dose-schedule of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine for epigenetic therapy of cancer
Maryse Lemaire, Guy G Chabot, Noël JM Raynal, Louise F Momparler, Annie Hurtubise, Mark L Bernstein, and Richard L Momparler
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 128. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-128.
PMCID: PMC2386792
Expression of HER-2 in MCF-7 breast cancer cells modulates anti-apoptotic proteins Survivin and Bcl-2 via the extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK) and phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) signalling pathways
Aisha Siddiqa, Linda M Long, Liuxia Li, Robert A Marciniak, and Irene Kazhdan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 129. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-129.
PMCID: PMC2386479
Estrogen and progesterone receptor levels in nonneoplastic breast epithelium of breast cancer cases versus benign breast biopsy controls
Christy G Woolcott, Sandip K SenGupta, Wedad M Hanna, and Kristan J Aronson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 130. Published online 2008 May 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-130.
PMCID: PMC2397427
Increase in mammography detected breast cancer over time at a community based regional cancer center: a longitudinal cohort study 1990–2005
Judith A Malmgren, Mary K Atwood, and Henry G Kaplan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 131. Published online 2008 May 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-131.
PMCID: PMC2405799
Phase II trial of isoflavone in prostate-specific antigen recurrent prostate cancer after previous local therapy
John M Pendleton, Winston W Tan, Satoshi Anai, Myron Chang, Wei Hou, Kathleen T Shiverick, and Charles J Rosser
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 132. Published online 2008 May 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-132.
PMCID: PMC2394534
Knockdown of TFIIS by RNA silencing inhibits cancer cell proliferation and induces apoptosis
Kyle Hubbard, Jennifer Catalano, Raj K Puri, and Averell Gnatt
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 133. Published online 2008 May 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-133.
PMCID: PMC2390572
Skp2 expression is associated with high risk and elevated Ki67 expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumours
Dolores Di Vizio, Francesca Demichelis, Sara Simonetti, Guido Pettinato, Luigi Terracciano, Luigi Tornillo, Michael R Freeman, and Luigi Insabato
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 134. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-134.
PMCID: PMC2396636
Suspension culture combined with chemotherapeutic agents for sorting of breast cancer stem cells
Hai-zhi Li, Tong-bo Yi, and Zheng-yan Wu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 135. Published online 2008 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-135.
PMCID: PMC2390573
Expression analysis of carbohydrate antigens in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast by lectin histochemistry
Soheila Korourian, Eric Siegel, Thomas Kieber-Emmons, and Behjatolah Monzavi-Karbassi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 136. Published online 2008 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-136.
PMCID: PMC2394536
Geographical spread of gastrointestinal tract cancer incidence in the Caspian Sea region of Iran: Spatial analysis of cancer registry data
Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Mahmood Mahmoodi, Rory Wolfe, Keramat Nourijelyani, Kazem Mohammad, Hojjat Zeraati, and Akbar Fotouhi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 137. Published online 2008 May 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-137.
PMCID: PMC2397428
A novel diffuse gastric cancer susceptibility variant in E-cadherin (CDH1) intron 2: A case control study in an Italian population
Soroush Nasri, Helen More, Francesco Graziano, Annamaria Ruzzo, Emily Wilson, Anita Dunbier, Cushla McKinney, Tony Merriman, Parry Guilford, Mauro Magnani, and Bostjan Humar
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 138. Published online 2008 May 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-138.
PMCID: PMC2412889
Histological subtype of lung cancer in relation to socio-economic deprivation in South East England
Victoria A Bennett, Elizabeth A Davies, Ruth H Jack, Vivian Mak, and Henrik Møller
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 139. Published online 2008 May 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-139.
PMCID: PMC2416361
Spectrum and characterisation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deleterious mutations in high-risk Czech patients with breast and/or ovarian cancer
Eva Machackova, Lenka Foretova, Mirka Lukesova, Petra Vasickova, Marie Navratilova, Ilse Coene, Hana Pavlu, Veronika Kosinova, Jitka Kuklova, and Kathleen Claes
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 140. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-140.
PMCID: PMC2413254
Cardiac damage after treatment of childhood cancer: A long-term follow-up
Veronika Velensek, Uros Mazic, Ciril Krzisnik, Damjan Demšar, Janez Jazbec, and Berta Jereb
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 141. Published online 2008 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-141.
PMCID: PMC2430718
High resolution melting analysis for rapid and sensitive EGFR and KRAS mutation detection in formalin fixed paraffin embedded biopsies
Hongdo Do, Michael Krypuy, Paul L Mitchell, Stephen B Fox, and Alexander Dobrovic
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 142. Published online 2008 May 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-142.
PMCID: PMC2408599
Local IGFBP-3 mRNA expression, apoptosis and risk of colorectal adenomas
Temitope O Keku, Robert S Sandler, James G Simmons, Joseph Galanko, John T Woosley, Michelle Proffitt, Oluwaseun Omofoye, Maya McDoom, and Pauline K Lund
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 143. Published online 2008 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-143.
PMCID: PMC2409350
Modulatory role of phospholipase D in the activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)-3 by thyroid oncogenic kinase RET/PTC
Young-Rae Kim, Hee Sun Byun, Minho Won, Kyeong Ah Park, Jin Man Kim, Byung Lyul Choi, Hyunji Lee, Jang Hee Hong, Jongsun Park, Jeong Ho Seok, Dong Wook Kim, Minho Shong, Seung-Kiel Park, and Gang Min Hur
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 144. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-144.
PMCID: PMC2412888
Enhancer of the rudimentary gene homologue (ERH) expression pattern in sporadic human breast cancer and normal breast tissue
Menelaos Zafrakas, Inge Losen, Ruth Knüchel, and Edgar Dahl
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 145. Published online 2008 May 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-145.
PMCID: PMC2426700
Analysis of large deletions in BRCA1, BRCA2 and PALB2 genes in Finnish breast and ovarian cancer families
Katri Pylkäs, Hannele Erkko, Jenni Nikkilä, Szilvia Sólyom, and Robert Winqvist
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 146. Published online 2008 May 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-146.
PMCID: PMC2413256
Cervix carcinoma is associated with an up-regulation and nuclear localization of the dual-specificity protein phosphatase VHR
Rachel Henkens, Philippe Delvenne, Mohammad Arafa, Michel Moutschen, Mustapha Zeddou, Lutz Tautz, Jacques Boniver, Tomas Mustelin, and Souad Rahmouni
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 147. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-147.
PMCID: PMC2413255
Modified FOLFOX-6 chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer: Results of phase II study and comprehensive analysis of polymorphisms as a predictive and prognostic marker
Bhumsuk Keam, Seock-Ah Im, Sae-Won Han, Hye Seon Ham, Min A Kim, Do-Youn Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Jee Hyun Kim, Dong-Wan Kim, Tae-You Kim, Dae Seog Heo, Woo Ho Kim, and Yung-Jue Bang
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 148. Published online 2008 May 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-148.
PMCID: PMC2442115
Androgen receptor expresion in breast cancer: Relationship with clinicopathological characteristics of the tumors, prognosis, and expression of metalloproteases and their inhibitors
Luis O Gonzalez, Maria D Corte, Julio Vazquez, Sara Junquera, Rosario Sanchez, Ana C Alvarez, Juan C Rodriguez, Maria L Lamelas, and Francisco J Vizoso
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 149. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-149.
PMCID: PMC2416360
SOCS3 inhibiting migration of A549 cells correlates with PYK2 signaling in vitro
Siyang Zhang, Dawei Guo, Lili Jiang, Qingfu Zhang, Xueshan Qiu, and Enhua Wang
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 150. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-150.
PMCID: PMC2429913
Analysis of the effects of exposure to acute hypoxia on oxidative lesions and tumour progression in a transgenic mouse breast cancer model
Tuula M Kalliomäki, Gordon McCallum, Sarah Jane Lunt, Peter G Wells, and Richard P Hill
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 151. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-151.
PMCID: PMC2427038
Characterization of three new serous epithelial ovarian cancer cell lines
Véronique Ouellet, Magdalena Zietarska, Lise Portelance, Julie Lafontaine, Jason Madore, Marie-Line Puiffe, Suzanna L Arcand, Zhen Shen, Josée Hébert, Patricia N Tonin, Diane M Provencher, and Anne-Marie Mes-Masson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 152. Published online 2008 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-152.
PMCID: PMC2467432
Meta-analysis confirms BCL2 is an independent prognostic marker in breast cancer
Grace M Callagy, Mark J Webber, Paul DP Pharoah, and Carlos Caldas
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 153. Published online 2008 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-153.
PMCID: PMC2430210
Promoter methylation-associated loss of ID4 expression is a marker of tumour recurrence in human breast cancer
Erik Noetzel, Jürgen Veeck, Dieter Niederacher, Oliver Galm, Felicitas Horn, Arndt Hartmann, Ruth Knüchel, and Edgar Dahl
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 154. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-154.
PMCID: PMC2435120
Penetrance estimates for BRCA1 and BRCA2 based on genetic testing in a Clinical Cancer Genetics service setting: Risks of breast/ovarian cancer quoted should reflect the cancer burden in the family
D Gareth Evans, Andrew Shenton, Emma Woodward, Fiona Lalloo, Anthony Howell, and Eamonn R Maher
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 155. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-155.
PMCID: PMC2447846
Diagnostic utility of LunX mRNA in peripheral blood and pleural fluid in patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer
Min Cheng, Yongyan Chen, Xiaoqing Yu, Zhigang Tian, and Haiming Wei
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 156. Published online 2008 May 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-156.
PMCID: PMC2424066
Case-control study of tobacco smoke exposure and breast cancer risk in Delaware
Dana E Rollison, Ross C Brownson, H Leroy Hathcock, and Craig J Newschaffer
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 157. Published online 2008 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-157.
PMCID: PMC2424067
Vav3 oncogene activates estrogen receptor and its overexpression may be involved in human breast cancer
Kiwon Lee, Yin Liu, Jun Qin Mo, Jinsong Zhang, Zhongyun Dong, and Shan Lu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 158. Published online 2008 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-158.
PMCID: PMC2430719
Antisense oligonucleotides and all-trans retinoic acid have a synergistic anti-tumor effect on oral squamous cell carcinoma
Qin Xu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Ping Zhang, and Wantao Chen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 159. Published online 2008 June 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-159.
PMCID: PMC2427037
Over-expression of Adenine Nucleotide Translocase 1 (ANT1) Induces Apoptosis and Tumor Regression in vivo
Ji-Young Jang, Yun Choi, Yoon-Kyung Jeon, Khin Chaw Yu Aung, and Chul-Woo Kim
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 160. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-160.
PMCID: PMC2430968
Induction of maturation and activation of human dendritic cells: A mechanism underlying the beneficial effect of Viscum album as complimentary therapy in cancer
Sri Ramulu Elluru, Jean-Paul Duong van Huyen, Sandrine Delignat, Michel D Kazatchkine, Alain Friboulet, Srini V Kaveri, and Jagadeesh Bayry
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 161. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-161.
PMCID: PMC2442603
A limited role for p53 in modulating the immediate phenotype of Apc loss in the intestine
Karen R Reed, Valerie S Meniel, Victoria Marsh, Alicia Cole, Owen J Sansom, and Alan R Clarke
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 162. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-162.
PMCID: PMC2443808
Involvement of TSC genes and differential expression of other members of the mTOR signaling pathway in oral squamous cell carcinoma
Sanjukta Chakraborty, SM Azeem Mohiyuddin, KS Gopinath, and Arun Kumar
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 163. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-163.
PMCID: PMC2430211
Is the Satisfaction with Cancer Information Profile (SCIP) valid for tailoring information for patients with head and neck cancer?
Matthew C Hankins and Carrie D Llewellyn
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 164. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-164.
PMCID: PMC2447847
Utility of 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose emission tomography/computed tomography fusion imaging (18F-FDG PET/CT) in combination with ultrasonography for axillary staging in primary breast cancer
Shigeto Ueda, Hitoshi Tsuda, Hideki Asakawa, Jiro Omata, Kazuhiko Fukatsu, Nobuo Kondo, Tadaharu Kondo, Yukihiro Hama, Katsumi Tamura, Jiro Ishida, Yoshiyuki Abe, and Hidetaka Mochizuki
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 165. Published online 2008 June 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-165.
PMCID: PMC2430574
Comparative actions of progesterone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, drospirenone and nestorone on breast cancer cell migration and invasion
Xiao-Dong Fu, Maria Silvia Giretti, Lorenzo Goglia, Marina Ines Flamini, Angel Matias Sanchez, Chiara Baldacci, Silvia Garibaldi, Regine Sitruk-Ware, Andrea Riccardo Genazzani, and Tommaso Simoncini
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 166. Published online 2008 June 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-166.
PMCID: PMC2443160
Expression of hepcidin mRNA is uniformly suppressed in hepatocellular carcinoma
Hiroaki Kijima, Tokihiko Sawada, Naohisa Tomosugi, and Keiichi Kubota
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 167. Published online 2008 June 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-167.
PMCID: PMC2430575
Gene-expression of metastasized versus non-metastasized primary head and neck squamous cell carcinomas: A pathway-based analysis
Erik F Hensen, Maria J De Herdt, Jelle J Goeman, Jan Oosting, Vincent THBM Smit, Cees J Cornelisse, and Robert J Baatenburg de Jong
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 168. Published online 2008 June 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-168.
PMCID: PMC2438367
A polymorphism of EGFR extracellular domain is associated with progression free-survival in metastatic colorectal cancer patients receiving cetuximab-based treatment
Anthony Gonçalves, Séverine Esteyries, Brynn Taylor-Smedra, Arnaud Lagarde, Mounay Ayadi, Geneviève Monges, François Bertucci, Benjamin Esterni, Jean-Robert Delpero, Olivier Turrini, Bernard Lelong, Patrice Viens, Jean-Paul Borg, Daniel Birnbaum, Sylviane Olschwang, and Frédéric Viret
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 169. Published online 2008 June 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-169.
PMCID: PMC2432064
Pancreatobiliary versus intestinal histologic type of differentiation is an independent prognostic factor in resected periampullary adenocarcinoma
Arne Westgaard, Svetlana Tafjord, Inger N Farstad, Milada Cvancarova, Tor J Eide, Oystein Mathisen, Ole Petter F Clausen, and Ivar P Gladhaug
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 170. Published online 2008 June 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-170.
PMCID: PMC2430209
Knowledge, attitudes, and preventive practices about colorectal cancer among adults in an area of Southern Italy
Alessandra Sessa, Rossella Abbate, Gabriella Di Giuseppe, Paolo Marinelli, and Italo F Angelillo
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 171. Published online 2008 June 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-171.
PMCID: PMC2474634
The metastasis-associated protein S100A4 exists in several charged variants suggesting the presence of posttranslational modifications
Mads H Haugen, Kjersti Flatmark, Svein-Ole Mikalsen, and Gunhild M Malandsmo
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 172. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-172.
PMCID: PMC2443394
CADM1 is a strong neuroblastoma candidate gene that maps within a 3.72 Mb critical region of loss on 11q23
Evi Michels, Jasmien Hoebeeck, Katleen De Preter, Alexander Schramm, Bénédicte Brichard, Anne De Paepe, Angelika Eggert, Geneviève Laureys, Jo Vandesompele, and Frank Speleman
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 173. Published online 2008 June 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-173.
PMCID: PMC2442116
Human pregnane X receptor is expressed in breast carcinomas, potential heterodimers formation between hPXR and RXR-alpha
Isabel Conde, María VT Lobo, Javier Zamora, Julio Pérez, Francisco J González, Emilio Alba, Benito Fraile, Ricardo Paniagua, and María I Arenas
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 174. Published online 2008 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-174.
PMCID: PMC2442113
Altered localisation of the copper efflux transporters ATP7A and ATP7B associated with cisplatin resistance in human ovarian carcinoma cells
Ganna V Kalayda, Christina H Wagner, Irina Buß, Jan Reedijk, and Ulrich Jaehde
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 175. Published online 2008 June 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-175.
PMCID: PMC2442842
Rapamycin delays growth of Wnt-1 tumors in spite of suppression of host immunity
Elena V Svirshchevskaya, Jacopo Mariotti, Mollie H Wright, Natalia Y Viskova, William Telford, Daniel H Fowler, and Lyuba Varticovski
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 176. Published online 2008 June 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-176.
PMCID: PMC2453140
Depression and quality of life in cancer patients with and without pain: the role of pain beliefs
Azadeh Tavoli, Ali Montazeri, Rasool Roshan, Zahra Tavoli, and Mahdiyeh Melyani
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 177. Published online 2008 June 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-177.
PMCID: PMC2443809
ELR+ CXC chemokine expression in benign and malignant colorectal conditions
Claudia Rubie, Vilma Oliveira Frick, Mathias Wagner, Jochen Schuld, Stefan Gräber, Brigitte Brittner, Rainer M Bohle, and Martin K Schilling
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 178. Published online 2008 June 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-178.
PMCID: PMC2459188
ADAM9 is highly expressed in renal cell cancer and is associated with tumour progression
Florian R Fritzsche, Kirsten Wassermann, Monika Jung, Angelika Tölle, Ilka Kristiansen, Michael Lein, Manfred Johannsen, Manfred Dietel, Klaus Jung, and Glen Kristiansen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 179. Published online 2008 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-179.
PMCID: PMC2442841
Does increased local bone resorption secondary to breast and prostate cancer result in increased cartilage degradation?
Diana J Leeming, Inger Byrjalsen, Per Qvist, Mitsuru Koizumi, Niels Lynnerup, Michael Fregerslev, Mette G Sørensen, Claus Christiansen, and Morten A Karsdal
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 180. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-180.
PMCID: PMC2453141
Chrysotile effects on human lung cell carcinoma in culture: 3-D reconstruction and DNA quantification by image analysis
Beatriz A Cortez and Glaucia M Machado-Santelli
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 181. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-181.
PMCID: PMC2464777
Suppression of local invasion of ameloblastoma by inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-2 in vitro
Anxun Wang, Bin Zhang, Hongzhang Huang, Leitao Zhang, Donglin Zeng, Qian Tao, Jianguang Wang, and Chaobin Pan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 182. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-182.
PMCID: PMC2443806
Recurrent and multiple bladder tumors show conserved expression profiles
David Lindgren, Sigurdur Gudjonsson, Kowan Ja Jee, Fredrik Liedberg, Sonja Aits, Anna Andersson, Gunilla Chebil, Åke Borg, Sakari Knuutila, Thoas Fioretos, Wiking Månsson, and Mattias Höglund
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 183. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-183.
PMCID: PMC2483988
Estrogen enhanced cell-cell signalling in breast cancer cells exposed to targeted irradiation
Chunlin Shao, Melvyn Folkard, Kathryn D Held, and Kevin M Prise
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 184. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-184.
PMCID: PMC2443807
Association of loss of epithelial syndecan-1 with stage and local metastasis of colorectal adenocarcinomas: An immunohistochemical study of clinically annotated tumors
Yosuke Hashimoto, Marek Skacel, and Josephine C Adams
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 185. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-185.
PMCID: PMC2459187
Peripheral pulmonary nodules: Relationship between multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging and tumor angiogenesis and VEGF expression
Shu-Hua Ma, Hong-Bo Le, Bao-hui Jia, Zhao-Xin Wang, Zhuang-Wei Xiao, Xiao-Ling Cheng, Wei Mei, Min Wu, Zhi-Guo Hu, and Yu-Guang Li
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 186. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-186.
PMCID: PMC2474637
Metastatic susceptibility locus, an 8p hot-spot for tumour progression disrupted in colorectal liver metastases: 13 candidate genes examined at the DNA, mRNA and protein level
Donia P Macartney-Coxson, Kylie A Hood, Hong-jun Shi, Teresa Ward, Anna Wiles, Rosemary O'Connor, David A Hall, Rod A Lea, Janice A Royds, Richard S Stubbs, and Serena Rooker
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 187. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-187.
PMCID: PMC2488356
Clinical implications of thymidylate synthetase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase and orotate phosphoribosyl transferase activity levels in colorectal carcinoma following radical resection and administration of adjuvant 5-FU chemotherapy
Masashi Ishikawa, Takayuki Miyauchi, and Yutaka Kashiwagi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 188. Published online 2008 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-188.
PMCID: PMC2491633
TDAG51 is an ERK signaling target that opposes ERK-mediated HME16C mammary epithelial cell transformation
Michael D Oberst, Stacey J Beberman, Liu Zhao, Juan Juan Yin, Yvona Ward, and Kathleen Kelly
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 189. Published online 2008 July 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-189.
PMCID: PMC2474852
TGFbeta induces apoptosis and EMT in primary mouse hepatocytes independently of p53, p21Cip1 or Rb status
Sharon Sheahan, Christopher O Bellamy, Stephen N Harland, David J Harrison, and Sandrine Prost
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 191. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-191.
PMCID: PMC2467431
Gemcitabine based combination chemotherapy in advanced pancreatic cancer-indirect comparison
Asma Sultana, Paula Ghaneh, David Cunningham, Naureen Starling, John P Neoptolemos, and Catrin Tudur Smith
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 192. Published online 2008 July 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-192.
PMCID: PMC2474853
EVI1 activation in blast crisis CML due to juxtaposition to the rare 17q22 partner region as part of a 4-way variant translocation t(9;22)
An De Weer, Bruce Poppe, Barbara Cauwelier, Andre Carlier, Jan Dierick, Bruno Verhasselt, Jan Philippé, Nadine Van Roy, and Frank Speleman
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 193. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-193.
PMCID: PMC2474635
Tumor marker utility and prognostic relevance of cathepsin B, cathepsin L, urokinase-type plasminogen activator, plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1, CEA and CA 19-9 in colorectal cancer
László Herszényi, Fabio Farinati, Romilda Cardin, Gábor István, László D Molnár, István Hritz, Massimo De Paoli, Mario Plebani, and Zsolt Tulassay
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 194. Published online 2008 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-194.
PMCID: PMC2474636
A single dose of pegfilgrastim compared with daily filgrastim for supporting neutrophil recovery in patients treated for low-to-intermediate risk acute myeloid leukemia: results from a randomized, double-blind, phase 2 trial
Jorge Sierra, Jeffrey Szer, Jeannine Kassis, Richard Herrmann, Mario Lazzarino, Xavier Thomas, Stephen J Noga, Nigel Baker, Roger Dansey, and Alberto Bosi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 195. Published online 2008 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-195.
PMCID: PMC2483721
Localization of hRad9 in breast cancer
Vivian Chan, US Khoo, MS Wong, Ken Lau, Dacita Suen, George Li, Ava Kwong, and TK Chan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 196. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-196.
PMCID: PMC2483722
Zinc protoporphyrin IX, a heme oxygenase-1 inhibitor, demonstrates potent antitumor effects but is unable to potentiate antitumor effects of chemotherapeutics in mice
Dominika Nowis, Marek Bugajski, Magdalena Winiarska, Jacek Bil, Angelika Szokalska, Pawel Salwa, Tadeusz Issat, Halina Was, Alicja Jozkowicz, Jozef Dulak, Tomasz Stoklosa, and Jakub Golab
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 197. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-197.
PMCID: PMC2478682
The function of BCL9 in Wnt/β-catenin signaling and colorectal cancer cells
Marc de la Roche, Jesper Worm, and Mariann Bienz
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 199. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-199.
PMCID: PMC2478683
AFP, PIVKAII, GP3, SCCA-1 and follisatin as surveillance biomarkers for hepatocellular cancer in non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver disease
Gary Beale, Dipankar Chattopadhyay, Joe Gray, Stephen Stewart, Mark Hudson, Christopher Day, Paolo Trerotoli, Gianluigi Giannelli, Derek Manas, and Helen Reeves
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 200. Published online 2008 July 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-200.
PMCID: PMC2488355
Cell killing and resistance in pre-operative breast cancer chemotherapy
Paolo Ubezio and David Cameron
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 201. Published online 2008 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-201.
PMCID: PMC2496916
Evaluation of high-risk Human papillomaviruses type distribution in cervical cancer in Sichuan province of China
En-qi Wu, Guo-nan Zhang, Xiang-hui Yu, Yuan Ren, Ying Fan, Yong-ge Wu, Wei Kong, and Xiao Zha
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 202. Published online 2008 July 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-202.
PMCID: PMC2490702
A family history of breast cancer will not predict female early onset breast cancer in a population-based setting
Geertruida H de Bock, Catharina E Jacobi, Caroline Seynaeve, Elly MM Krol-Warmerdam, Jannet Blom, Christi J van Asperen, Cees J Cornelisse, Jan GM Klijn, Peter Devilee, Rob AEM Tollenaar, Cecile TM Brekelmans, and Johannes C van Houwelingen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 203. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-203.
PMCID: PMC2515321
P53 expression is significantly correlated with high risk of malignancy and epithelioid differentiation in GISTs. An immunohistochemical study of 104 cases
Ursula Pauser, Nina Schmedt auf der Günne, Günter Klöppel, Hartmut Merz, and Alfred C Feller
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 204. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-204.
PMCID: PMC2515850
Underexpression of Deleted in liver cancer 2 (DLC2) is associated with overexpression of RhoA and poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Li Xiaorong, Wu Wei, Qian Liyuan, and Yang Kaiyan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 205. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-205.
PMCID: PMC2496915
ENMD-1198, a novel tubulin-binding agent reduces HIF-1alpha and STAT3 activity in human hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) cells, and inhibits growth and vascularization in vivo
Christian Moser, Sven A Lang, Akira Mori, Claus Hellerbrand, Hans J Schlitt, Edward K Geissler, William E Fogler, and Oliver Stoeltzing
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 206. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-206.
PMCID: PMC2496914
Conjugated linoleic acid induces apoptosis through estrogen receptor alpha in human breast tissue
Li-Shu Wang, Yi-Wen Huang, Suling Liu, Pearlly Yan, and Young C Lin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 208. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-208.
PMCID: PMC2517598
Vinorelbine-based salvage therapy in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients progressing during trastuzumab-containing regimens: a retrospective study
Filippo Montemurro, Stefania Redana, Franco Nolè, Michela Donadio, Maria Elena Jacomuzzzi, Giorgio Valabrega, Giuseppe Viale, Anna Sapino, and Massimo Aglietta
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 209. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-209.
PMCID: PMC2503990
Efficacy of laser capture microdissection plus RT-PCR technique in analyzing gene expression levels in human gastric cancer and colon cancer
Hiroshi Makino, Hiroyuki Uetake, Kathleen Danenberg, Peter V Danenberg, and Kenichi Sugihara
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 210. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-210.
PMCID: PMC2533342
Predictors of persistent cytologic abnormalities after treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in Soweto, South Africa: a cohort study in a HIV high prevalence population
Yasmin Adam, Cyril J van Gelderen, Guy de Bruyn, James A McIntyre, Diane A Turton, and Neil A Martinson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 211. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-211.
PMCID: PMC2515323
Paclitaxel loading in PLGA nanospheres affected the in vitro drug cell accumulation and antiproliferative activity
Luisa Vicari, Teresa Musumeci, Ignazio Giannone, Luana Adamo, Concetta Conticello, Ruggero De Maria, Rosario Pignatello, Giovanni Puglisi, and Massimo Gulisano
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 212. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-212.
PMCID: PMC2519087
Molecular detection (k-ras) of exfoliated tumour cells in the pelvis is a prognostic factor after resection of rectal cancer?
Annette Torgunrud Kristensen, Johan N Wiig, Stein G Larsen, Karl-Erik Giercksky, and Per O Ekstrøm
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 213. Published online 2008 July 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-213.
PMCID: PMC2525659
Novel sequence variants and a high frequency of recurrent polymorphisms in BRCA1 gene in Sri Lankan breast cancer patients and at risk individuals
Wasanthi De Silva, Eric H Karunanayake, Kamani H Tennekoon, Marie Allen, Indrani Amarasinghe, Preethika Angunawala, and Mohamed H Ziard
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 214. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-214.
PMCID: PMC2519088
Divergent mechanisms underlie Smad4-mediated positive regulation of the three genes encoding the basement membrane component laminin-332 (laminin-5)
Dirk Zboralski, Miriam Böckmann, Marc Zapatka, Sabine Hoppe, Anna Schöneck, Stephan A Hahn, Wolff Schmiegel, and Irmgard Schwarte-Waldhoff
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 215. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-215.
PMCID: PMC2525660
Pemetrexed single agent chemotherapy in previously treated patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Francesca Russo, Alessandra Bearz, Gianni Pampaloni, and the investigators of the Italian Pemetrexed monotherapy of NSCLC group
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 216. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-216.
PMCID: PMC2529337
Colonic perianastomotic carcinogenesis in an experimental model
Sergio Pérez-Holanda, Luis Rodrigo, Carme Pinyol-Felis, and Joan Vinyas-Salas
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 217. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-217.
PMCID: PMC2518563
Effects of COX-2 inhibition on expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and interleukin-8 in lung cancer cells
Yong Ming Zhu, Nor Saadah M Azahri, Danny CW Yu, and Penella J Woll
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 218. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-218.
PMCID: PMC2516523
Androgen regulation of the androgen receptor coregulators
Alfonso Urbanucci, Kati K Waltering, Hanna E Suikki, Merja A Helenius, and Tapio Visakorpi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 219. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-219.
PMCID: PMC2518564
Prognostic value analysis of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor in oral squamous cell carcinoma: an immunohistochemical study
Roberta Bacchiocchi, Corrado Rubini, Elisa Pierpaoli, Giulia Borghetti, Pasquale Procacci, Pier Francesco Nocini, Andrea Santarelli, Romina Rocchetti, Domenico Ciavarella, Lorenzo Lo Muzio, and Francesca Fazioli
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 220. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-220.
PMCID: PMC2527016
Esophageal cancer risk by type of alcohol drinking and smoking: a case-control study in Spain
Jesus Vioque, Xavier Barber, Francisco Bolumar, Miquel Porta, Miguel Santibáñez, Manuela García de la Hera, Eduardo Moreno-Osset, and the PANESOES Study Group
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 221. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-221.
PMCID: PMC2529333
Collagen I but not Matrigel matrices provide an MMP-dependent barrier to ovarian cancer cell penetration
Katharine L Sodek, Theodore J Brown, and Maurice J Ringuette
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 223. Published online 2008 August 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-223.
PMCID: PMC2519089
A genetic polymorphism of the osteoprotegerin gene is associated with an increased risk of advanced prostate cancer
Naofumi Narita, Takeshi Yuasa, Norihiko Tsuchiya, Teruaki Kumazawa, Shintaro Narita, Takamitsu Inoue, Zhiyong Ma, Mitsuru Saito, Yohei Horikawa, Shigeru Satoh, Osamu Ogawa, and Tomonori Habuchi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 224. Published online 2008 August 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-224.
PMCID: PMC2527333
AIDS-related primary central nervous system lymphoma: a Norwegian national survey 1989–2003
Ingfrid S Haldorsen, Jostein Kråkenes, Anne K Goplen, Oona Dunlop, Olav Mella, and Ansgar Espeland
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 225. Published online 2008 August 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-225.
PMCID: PMC2525658
Displayed correlation between gene expression profiles and submicroscopic alterations in response to cetuximab, gefitinib and EGF in human colon cancer cell lines
Rossella Solmi, Mattia Lauriola, Mirko Francesconi, Désirée Martini, Manuela Voltattorni, Claudio Ceccarelli, Giampaolo Ugolini, Giancarlo Rosati, Simone Zanotti, Isacco Montroni, Gabriella Mattei, Mario Taffurelli, Donatella Santini, Furio Pezzetti, Alessandro Ruggeri, Gastone Castellani, Lia Guidotti, Domenico Coppola, and Pierluigi Strippoli
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 227. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-227.
PMCID: PMC2528013
Imagable 4T1 model for the study of late stage breast cancer
Kai Tao, Min Fang, Joseph Alroy, and G Gary Sahagian
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 228. Published online 2008 August 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-228.
PMCID: PMC2529338
Cigarette smoke induces endoplasmic reticulum stress and the unfolded protein response in normal and malignant human lung cells
Ellen Jorgensen, Andy Stinson, Lin Shan, Jin Yang, Diana Gietl, and Anthony P Albino
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 229. Published online 2008 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-229.
PMCID: PMC2527015
Association of TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion with clinical characteristics and outcomes: results from a population-based study of prostate cancer
Liesel M FitzGerald, Ilir Agalliu, Karynn Johnson, Melinda A Miller, Erika M Kwon, Antonio Hurtado-Coll, Ladan Fazli, Ashish B Rajput, Martin E Gleave, Michael E Cox, Elaine A Ostrander, Janet L Stanford, and David G Huntsman
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 230. Published online 2008 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-230.
PMCID: PMC2519091
Tetratricopeptide repeat domain 9A is an interacting protein for tropomyosin Tm5NM-1
Shenglan Cao, Gay Hui Ho, and Valerie CL Lin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 231. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-231.
PMCID: PMC2538545
EGFR and HER2 expression in primary cervical cancers and corresponding lymph node metastases: Implications for targeted radiotherapy
Li Shen, Yongjie Shui, Xiaojia Wang, Liming Sheng, Zhengyan Yang, Danfeng Xue, and Qichun Wei
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 232. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-232.
PMCID: PMC2519090
Prognostic relevance of Centromere protein H expression in esophageal carcinoma
Xian-Zhi Guo, Ge Zhang, Jun-Ye Wang, Wan-Li Liu, Fang Wang, Ju-Qin Dong, Li-Hua Xu, Jing-Yan Cao, Li-Bing Song, and Mu-Sheng Zeng
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 233. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-233.
PMCID: PMC2535782
Potential value of PTEN in predicting cetuximab response in colorectal cancer: An exploratory study
Evangelia Razis, Evangelos Briasoulis, Eleni Vrettou, Dimosthenis V Skarlos, Dimitrios Papamichael, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Epaminontas Samantas, Ioannis Xanthakis, Mattheos Bobos, Eleni Galanidi, Maria Bai, Ioanna Gikonti, Alona Koukouma, Georgia Kafiri, Pavlos Papakostas, Konstantine T Kalogeras, Paris Kosmidis, and George Fountzilas
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 234. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-234.
PMCID: PMC2527615
Lymphotoxin-alpha polymorphisms and presence of cancer in 1,536 consecutive autopsy cases
Kako Takei, Shinobu Ikeda, Tomio Arai, Noriko Tanaka, Masaaki Muramatsu, and Motoji Sawabe
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 235. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-235.
PMCID: PMC2527017
National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: A standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research
Waqas Amin, Anil V Parwani, Linda Schmandt, Sambit K Mohanty, Ghada Farhat, Andrew K Pople, Sharon B Winters, Nancy B Whelan, Althea M Schneider, John T Milnes, Federico A Valdivieso, Michael Feldman, Harvey I Pass, Rajiv Dhir, Jonathan Melamed, and Michael J Becich
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 236. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-236.
PMCID: PMC2533341
Similar reductions in the risk of human colon cancer by selective and nonselective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors
Randall E Harris, Joanne Beebe-Donk, and Galal A Alshafie
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 237. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-237.
PMCID: PMC2529335
DNA methylation patterns in bladder cancer and washing cell sediments: a perspective for tumor recurrence detection
Priscilla D Negraes, Francine P Favaro, João Lauro V Camargo, Maria Luiza CS Oliveira, José Goldberg, Cláudia A Rainho, and Daisy MF Salvadori
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 238. Published online 2008 August 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-238.
PMCID: PMC2527332
Identification of a novel CHEK2 variant and assessment of its contribution to the risk of breast cancer in French Canadian women
David J Novak, Long Qi Chen, Parviz Ghadirian, Nancy Hamel, Phil Zhang, Vanessa Rossiny, Guy Cardinal, André Robidoux, Patricia N Tonin, Francois Rousseau, Steven A Narod, and William D Foulkes
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 239. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-239.
PMCID: PMC2532692
Establishing an in vivo model of canine prostate carcinoma using the new cell line CT1258
Melani AM Fork, Hugo Murua Escobar, Jan T Soller, Katharina A Sterenczak, Saskia Willenbrock, Susanne Winkler, Martina Dorsch, Nicola Reimann-Berg, Hans J Hedrich, Jörn Bullerdiek, and Ingo Nolte
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 240. Published online 2008 August 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-240.
PMCID: PMC2527616
Proteomic analysis identifies MMP-9, DJ-1 and A1BG as overexpressed proteins in pancreatic juice from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients
Mei Tian, Ya-Zhou Cui, Guan-Hua Song, Mei-Juan Zong, Xiao-Yan Zhou, Yu Chen, and Jin-Xiang Han
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 241. Published online 2008 August 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-241.
PMCID: PMC2528014
Improved therapeutic effectiveness by combining liposomal honokiol with cisplatin in lung cancer model
Qi-qi Jiang, Lin-yu Fan, Guang-li Yang, Wen-Hao Guo, Wen-li Hou, Li-juan Chen, and Yu-quan Wei
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 242. Published online 2008 August 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-242.
PMCID: PMC2543046
Differential expression of 12 histone deacetylase (HDAC) genes in astrocytomas and normal brain tissue: class II and IV are hypoexpressed in glioblastomas
Agda KB Lucio-Eterovic, Maria AA Cortez, Elvis T Valera, Fabio JN Motta, Rosane GP Queiroz, Helio R Machado, Carlos G Carlotti, Jr, Luciano Neder, Carlos A Scrideli, and Luiz G Tone
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 243. Published online 2008 August 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-243.
PMCID: PMC2536671
Breast cancer, psychological distress and life events among young women
Ronit Peled, Devora Carmil, Orly Siboni-Samocha, and Ilana Shoham-Vardi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 245. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-245.
PMCID: PMC2527614
Interaction between polymorphisms of the Human Leukocyte Antigen and HPV-16 Variants on the risk of invasive cervical cancer
Patricia S de Araujo Souza, Paulo C Maciag, Karina B Ribeiro, Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler, Eduardo L Franco, and Luisa L Villa
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 246. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-246.
PMCID: PMC2546426
Native human autoantibodies targeting GIPC1 identify differential expression in malignant tumors of the breast and ovary
Victoria Yavelsky, Sarit Rohkin, Ruthy Shaco-Levy, Alina Tzikinovsky, Tamar Amir, Hila Kohn, Berta Delgado, Alex Rabinovich, Benjamin Piura, Gerald Chan, Gavreel Kalantarov, Ilya Trakht, and Leslie Lobel
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 247. Published online 2008 August 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-247.
PMCID: PMC2535783
A human monoclonal autoantibody to breast cancer identifies the PDZ domain containing protein GIPC1 as a novel breast cancer-associated antigen
Sergei Rudchenko, Matthew Scanlan, Gavreel Kalantarov, Victoria Yavelsky, Chen Levy, Alison Estabrook, Lloyd Old, Gerald L Chan, Leslie Lobel, and Ilya Trakht
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 248. Published online 2008 August 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-248.
PMCID: PMC2529336
Bioelectrical impedance phase angle as a prognostic indicator in breast cancer
Digant Gupta, Carolyn A Lammersfeld, Pankaj G Vashi, Jessica King, Sadie L Dahlk, James F Grutsch, and Christopher G Lis
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 249. Published online 2008 August 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-249.
PMCID: PMC2527613
Muscle invasive bladder cancer in Upper Egypt: the shift in risk factors and tumor characteristics
Ali H Zarzour, Mohie Selim, Alaa A Abd-Elsayed, Diaa A Hameed, and Mohammad A AbdelAziz
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 250. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-250.
PMCID: PMC2533340
Activity of chemotherapy in mucinous ovarian cancer with a recurrence free interval of more than 6 months: results from the SOCRATES retrospective study
Sandro Pignata, Gabriella Ferrandina, Giovanna Scarfone, Paolo Scollo, Franco Odicino, Gennaro Cormio, Dionyssios Katsaros, Antonella Villa, Liliana Mereu, Fabio Ghezzi, Luigi Manzione, Rossella Lauria, Enrico Breda, Desiderio Gueli Alletti, Michela Ballardini, Alessandra Vernaglia Lombardi, Roberto Sorio, Giorgia Mangili, Domenico Priolo, Giovanna Magni, and Alessandro Morabito
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 252. Published online 2008 September 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-252.
PMCID: PMC2538544
Promoter methylation inhibits BRD7 expression in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells
Huaying Liu, Liming Zhang, Zhaoxia Niu, Ming Zhou, Cong Peng, Xiayu Li, Tan Deng, Lei Shi, Yixin Tan, and Guiyuan Li
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 253. Published online 2008 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-253.
PMCID: PMC2543047
Gene expression variation to predict 10-year survival in lymph-node-negative breast cancer
Elin Karlsson, Ulla Delle, Anna Danielsson, Björn Olsson, Frida Abel, Per Karlsson, and Khalil Helou
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 254. Published online 2008 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-254.
PMCID: PMC2559847
BRAF, KRAS and PIK3CA mutations in colorectal serrated polyps and cancer: Primary or secondary genetic events in colorectal carcinogenesis?
Sérgia Velho, Cátia Moutinho, Luís Cirnes, Cristina Albuquerque, Richard Hamelin, Fernando Schmitt, Fátima Carneiro, Carla Oliveira, and Raquel Seruca
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 255. Published online 2008 September 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-255.
PMCID: PMC2553419
Association between H-RAS T81C genetic polymorphism and gastrointestinal cancer risk: A population based case-control study in China
Yongjing Zhang, Mingjuan Jin, Bing Liu, Xinyuan Ma, Kaiyan Yao, Qilong Li, and Kun Chen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 256. Published online 2008 September 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-256.
PMCID: PMC2546424
Cancer incidence in relatives of British Fanconi Anaemia patients
Marc Tischkowitz, Douglas F Easton, Jan Ball, Shirley V Hodgson, and Christopher G Mathew
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 257. Published online 2008 September 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-257.
PMCID: PMC2556683
Municipal distribution of ovarian cancer mortality in Spain
Virginia Lope, Marina Pollán, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Nuria Aragonés, Enrique Vidal, Diana Gómez-Barroso, Rebeca Ramis, Javier García-Pérez, Anna Cabanes, and Gonzalo López-Abente
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 258. Published online 2008 September 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-258.
PMCID: PMC2564976
Lack of correlation between MYCN expression and the Warburg effect in neuroblastoma cell lines
Danielle J Smith, Luke R Cossins, Irene Hatzinisiriou, Michelle Haber, and Phillip Nagley
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 259. Published online 2008 September 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-259.
PMCID: PMC2551622
MAP kinase pathways and calcitonin influence CD44 alternate isoform expression in prostate cancer cells
Eric W Robbins, Emily A Travanty, Kui Yang, and Kenneth A Iczkowski
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 260. Published online 2008 September 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-260.
PMCID: PMC2551621
In silico analysis and verification of S100 gene expression in gastric cancer
Ji Liu, Xue Li, Guang-Long Dong, Hong-Wei Zhang, Dong-Li Chen, Jian-Jun Du, Jian-Yong Zheng, Ji-Peng Li, and Wei-Zhong Wang
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 261. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-261.
PMCID: PMC2567992
Loss of heterozygosity at the ATBF1-A locus located in the 16q22 minimal region in breast cancer
Kazuharu Kai, Zhenhuan Zhang, Hiroko Yamashita, Yutaka Yamamoto, Yutaka Miura, and Hirotaka Iwase
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 262. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-262.
PMCID: PMC2564977
Somatic mutation analysis of MYH11 in breast and prostate cancer
Pia Alhopuro, Auli Karhu, Robert Winqvist, Kati Waltering, Tapio Visakorpi, and Lauri A Aaltonen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 263. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-263.
PMCID: PMC2562392
IFN-gamma Impairs Release of IL-8 by IL-1beta-stimulated A549 Lung Carcinoma Cells
Kim A Boost, Christian D Sadik, Malte Bachmann, Bernhard Zwissler, Josef Pfeilschifter, and Heiko Mühl
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 265. Published online 2008 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-265.
PMCID: PMC2556346
Restoration of tumor suppressor miR-34 inhibits human p53-mutant gastric cancer tumorspheres
Qing Ji, Xinbao Hao, Yang Meng, Min Zhang, Jeffrey DeSano, Daiming Fan, and Liang Xu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 266. Published online 2008 September 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-266.
PMCID: PMC2564978
Keratin 8 expression in head and neck epithelia
Christoph Matthias, Brigitte Mack, Alexander Berghaus, and Olivier Gires
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 267. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-267.
PMCID: PMC2556347
The transcription factor ATF3 acts as an oncogene in mouse mammary tumorigenesis
Aijin Wang, Stacey Arantes, Leqin Yan, Kaoru Kiguchi, Mark J McArthur, Aysegul Sahin, Howard D Thames, C Marcelo Aldaz, and Michael C MacLeod
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 268. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-268.
PMCID: PMC2564979
A haplotype variation affecting the mitochondrial transportation of hMYH protein could be a risk factor for colorectal cancer in Chinese
Huimei Chen, Lizhi Xu, Qiufeng Qi, Yanweng Yao, Ming Zhu, and Yaping Wang
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 269. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-269.
PMCID: PMC2565682
Different gene-expression profiles for the poorly differentiated carcinoma and the highly differentiated papillary adenocarcinoma in mammary glands support distinct metabolic pathways
Tali Eilon and Itamar Barash
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 270. Published online 2008 September 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-270.
PMCID: PMC2564980
Variation in incidence of breast, lung and cervical cancer and malignant melanoma of skin by socioeconomic group in England
Lorraine Shack, Catrina Jordan, Catherine S Thomson, Vivian Mak, Henrik Møller, and UK Association of Cancer Registries
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 271. Published online 2008 September 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-271.
PMCID: PMC2577116
The influence of the Cyclin D1 870 G>A polymorphism as an endometrial cancer risk factor
Katie A Ashton, Anthony Proietto, Geoffrey Otton, Ian Symonds, Mark McEvoy, John Attia, Michael Gilbert, Ute Hamann, and Rodney J Scott
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 272. Published online 2008 September 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-272.
PMCID: PMC2567988
The -786T>C promoter polymorphism of the NOS3 gene is associated with prostate cancer progression
Karina Marangoni, Thaíse G Araújo, Adriana F Neves, and Luiz R Goulart
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 273. Published online 2008 September 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-273.
PMCID: PMC2571109
CXCR4 expression in papillary thyroid carcinoma: induction by nitric oxide and correlation with lymph node metastasis
Hironao Yasuoka, Rieko Kodama, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Yuuki Takamura, Akira Miyauchi, Tokio Sanke, and Yasushi Nakamura
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 274. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-274.
PMCID: PMC2572635
Sensitivity of imaging for multifocal-multicentric breast carcinoma
Anna Bozzini, Giuseppe Renne, Lorenza Meneghetti, Giuseppe Bandi, Gabriela Santos, Anna Rita Vento, Simona Menna, Stefania Andrighetto, Giuseppe Viale, Enrico Cassano, and Massimo Bellomi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 275. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-275.
PMCID: PMC2576336
The fatty acid binding protein 7 (FABP7) is involved in proliferation and invasion of melanoma cells
Ana Slipicevic, Kjersti Jørgensen, Martina Skrede, Anne Katrine Ree Rosnes, Gunhild Trøen, Ben Davidson, and Vivi Ann Flørenes
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 276. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-276.
PMCID: PMC2569959
The effects of timing of fine needle aspiration biopsies on gene expression profiles in breast cancers
Vietty Wong, Dong-Yu Wang, Keisha Warren, Supriya Kulkarni, Scott Boerner, Susan Jane Done, and Wey Liang Leong
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 277. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-277.
PMCID: PMC2567989
Weight, height, body mass index and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: a case-control study
Ali Montazeri, Jila Sadighi, Faranak Farzadi, Farzaneh Maftoon, Mariam Vahdaninia, Mariam Ansari, Akram Sajadian, Mandana Ebrahimi, Shahpar Haghighat, and Iraj Harirchi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 278. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-278.
PMCID: PMC2569958
The effect of menopause and hysterectomy on systemic vascular endothelial growth factor in women undergoing surgery for breast cancer
Aoife J Lowery, Karl J Sweeney, Alan P Molloy, Emer Hennessy, Catherine Curran, and Michael J Kerin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 279. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-279.
PMCID: PMC2569957
Musashi1 modulates cell proliferation genes in the medulloblastoma cell line Daoy
Patricia C Sanchez-Diaz, Tarea L Burton, Suzanne C Burns, Jaclyn Y Hung, and Luiz OF Penalva
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 280. Published online 2008 September 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-280.
PMCID: PMC2572071
MDM2 SNP309 is associated with high grade node positive breast tumours and is in linkage disequilibrium with a novel MDM2 intron 1 polymorphism
Fiona EM Paulin, Mary O'Neill, Gillian McGregor, Andrew Cassidy, Alison Ashfield, Clinton W Ali, Alastair J Munro, Lee Baker, Colin A Purdie, David P Lane, and Alastair M Thompson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 281. Published online 2008 October 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-281.
PMCID: PMC2576335
TOR complex 2 is needed for cell cycle progression and anchorage-independent growth of MCF7 and PC3 tumor cells
Ville Hietakangas and Stephen M Cohen
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 282. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-282.
PMCID: PMC2566983
Methylation screening of the TGFBI promoter in human lung and prostate cancer by methylation-specific PCR
Jinesh N Shah, Genze Shao, Tom K Hei, and Yongliang Zhao
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 284. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-284.
PMCID: PMC2572632
Performance of mitochondrial DNA mutations detecting early stage cancer
John P Jakupciak, Samantha Maragh, Maura E Markowitz, Alissa K Greenberg, Mohammad O Hoque, Anirban Maitra, Peter E Barker, Paul D Wagner, William N Rom, Sudhir Srivastava, David Sidransky, and Catherine D O'Connell
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 285. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-285.
PMCID: PMC2572633
Upregulated HSP27 in human breast cancer cells reduces Herceptin susceptibility by increasing Her2 protein stability
Se Hun Kang, Keon Wook Kang, Kyung-Hee Kim, Bumi Kwon, Seok-Ki Kim, Ho-Young Lee, Sun-Young Kong, Eun Sook Lee, Sang-Geun Jang, and Byong Chul Yoo
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 286. Published online 2008 October 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-286.
PMCID: PMC2567332
Identification of biomarkers in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast with microinvasion
Yasuhiro Okumura, Yutaka Yamamoto, Zhenhuan Zhang, Tatsuya Toyama, Teru Kawasoe, Mutsuko Ibusuki, Yumi Honda, Ken-ichi Iyama, Hiroko Yamashita, and Hirotaka Iwase
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 287. Published online 2008 October 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-287.
PMCID: PMC2567990
High-resolution array CGH clarifies events occurring on 8p in carcinogenesis
Susanna L Cooke, Jessica CM Pole, Suet-Feung Chin, Ian O Ellis, Carlos Caldas, and Paul AW Edwards
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 288. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-288.
PMCID: PMC2576333
Cell-cycle and suppressor proteins expression in uterine cervix in HIV/HPV co-infection: comparative study by tissue micro-array (TMA)
Alcina F Nicol, Andréa Rodrigues Cordovil Pires, Simone R de Souza, Gerard J Nuovo, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Aparecida Tristão, Fabio B Russomano, Luciane Velasque, José R Lapa e Silva, and Claude Pirmez
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 289. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-289.
PMCID: PMC2577688
Nuclear hBD-1 accumulation in malignant salivary gland tumours
M Wenghoefer, A Pantelis, H Dommisch, W Götz, R Reich, S Bergé, M Martini, JP Allam, S Jepsen, S Merkelbach-Bruse, HP Fischer, N Novak, and J Winter
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 290. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-290.
PMCID: PMC2567991
Characterization of cells recovered from the xenotransplanted NG97 human-derived glioma cell line subcultured in a long-term in vitro
Camila ML Machado, Rafael Y Ikemori, Tatiana Q Zorzeto, Ana CMA Nogueira, Suse DS Barbosa, Wilson Savino, André A Schenka, José Vassallo, Juliana K Heinrich, Fátima Boetcher-Luiz, and Liana Verinaud
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 291. Published online 2008 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-291.
PMCID: PMC2572634
Limited clinical relevance of mitochondrial DNA mutation and gene expression analyses in ovarian cancer
Piotr Bragoszewski, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Ewa Bartnik, Andrea Rachinger, and Jerzy Ostrowski
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 292. Published online 2008 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-292.
PMCID: PMC2571110
Kidney cancer mortality in Spain: geographic patterns and possible hypotheses
Gonzalo López-Abente, Nuria Aragonés, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Rebeca Ramis, Enrique Vidal, Javier García-Pérez, Pablo Fernández-Navarro, and Marina Pollán
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 293. Published online 2008 October 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-293.
PMCID: PMC2577691
Triphala inhibits both in vitro and in vivo xenograft growth of pancreatic tumor cells by inducing apoptosis
Yan Shi, Ravi P Sahu, and Sanjay K Srivastava
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 294. Published online 2008 October 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-294.
PMCID: PMC2576337
Prognostic significance of VEGF expression in patients with bulky cervical carcinoma undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Chel Hun Choi, Sang Yong Song, Jung-Joo Choi, Young Ae Park, Heeseok Kang, Tae-Joong Kim, Jeong-Won Lee, Byoung-Gie Kim, Je-Ho Lee, and Duk-Soo Bae
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 295. Published online 2008 October 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-295.
PMCID: PMC2572070
Prognostic parameters for recurrence of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma
Tae Yong Kim, Suck Joon Hong, Jung Min Kim, Won Gu Kim, Gyungyub Gong, Jin Sook Ryu, Won Bae Kim, Sung-Cheol Yun, and Young Kee Shong
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 296. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-296.
PMCID: PMC2576338
Amplification of HER2 is a marker for global genomic instability
Rachel E Ellsworth, Darrell L Ellsworth, Heather L Patney, Brenda Deyarmin, Brad Love, Jeffrey A Hooke, and Craig D Shriver
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 297. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-297.
PMCID: PMC2571108
uPA is upregulated by high dose celecoxib in women at increased risk of developing breast cancer
Wenyi Qin, Weizhu Zhu, John E Hewett, George Rottinghaus, Yin-Chieh Chen, John T Flynn, Beth Kliethermes, Ferdinando Mannello, and Edward R Sauter
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 298. Published online 2008 October 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-298.
PMCID: PMC2580770
Genome profiling of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia: frequent alterations of RAS and RUNX1 genes
Véronique Gelsi-Boyer, Virginie Trouplin, José Adélaïde, Nicola Aceto, Virginie Remy, Stephane Pinson, Claude Houdayer, Christine Arnoulet, Danielle Sainty, Mohamed Bentires-Alj, Sylviane Olschwang, Norbert Vey, Marie-Joëlle Mozziconacci, Daniel Birnbaum, and Max Chaffanet
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 299. Published online 2008 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-299.
PMCID: PMC2588460
Nestin expression in osteosarcomas and derivation of nestin/CD133 positive osteosarcoma cell lines
Renata Veselska, Marketa Hermanova, Tomas Loja, Petr Chlapek, Iva Zambo, Karel Vesely, Karel Zitterbart, and Jaroslav Sterba
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 300. Published online 2008 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-300.
PMCID: PMC2588620
Role of protease activated receptor-2 in lymph node metastasis of uterine cervical cancers
Israt Jahan, Jiro Fujimoto, Syed Mahfuzul Alam, Eriko Sato, and Teruhiko Tamaya
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 301. Published online 2008 October 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-301.
PMCID: PMC2587477
STAT3 can be activated through paracrine signaling in breast epithelial cells
Jacqueline C Lieblein, Sarah Ball, Brian Hutzen, A Kate Sasser, Huey-Jen Lin, Tim HM Huang, Brett M Hall, and Jiayuh Lin
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 302. Published online 2008 October 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-302.
PMCID: PMC2582243
Reduced expression of N-Myc downstream-regulated gene 2 in human thyroid cancer
Huadong Zhao, Jian Zhang, Jianguo Lu, Xianli He, Changsheng Chen, Xiaojun Li, Li Gong, Guoqiang Bao, Qiang Fu, Suning Chen, Wei Lin, Hai Shi, Jianjun Ma, Xinping Liu, Qingjiu Ma, and Libo Yao
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 303. Published online 2008 October 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-303.
PMCID: PMC2576469
Glioma stem cells are more aggressive in recurrent tumors with malignant progression than in the primary tumor, and both can be maintained long-term in vitro
Qiang Huang, Quan-Bin Zhang, Jun Dong, Yin-Yan Wu, Yun-Tian Shen, Yao-Dong Zhao, Yu-De Zhu, Yi Diao, Ai-Dong Wang, and Qing Lan
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 304. Published online 2008 October 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-304.
PMCID: PMC2584338
Leptin/HER2 crosstalk in breast cancer: in vitro study and preliminary in vivo analysis
Elena Fiorio, Anna Mercanti, Marianna Terrasi, Rocco Micciolo, Andrea Remo, Alessandra Auriemma, Annamaria Molino, Veronica Parolin, Bruno Di Stefano, Franco Bonetti, Antonio Giordano, Gian Luigi Cetto, and Eva Surmacz
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 305. Published online 2008 October 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-305.
PMCID: PMC2588622
Anti-angiogenesis therapy based on the bone marrow-derived stromal cells genetically engineered to express sFlt-1 in mouse tumor model
M Hu, J-L Yang, H Teng, Y-Q Jia, R Wang, X-W Zhang, Y Wu, Y Luo, X-C Chen, R Zhang, L Tian, X Zhao, and Y-Q Wei
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 306. Published online 2008 October 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-306.
PMCID: PMC2580769
The clinicopathologic characteristics and prognostic significance of triple-negativity in node-negative breast cancer
Jiyoung Rhee, Sae-Won Han, Do-Youn Oh, Jee Hyun Kim, Seock-Ah Im, Wonshik Han, In Ae Park, Dong-Young Noh, Yung-Jue Bang, and Tae-You Kim
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 307. Published online 2008 October 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-307.
PMCID: PMC2577689
The clinicopathological and prognostic impact of 14-3-3 sigma expression on vulvar squamous cell carcinomas
Zhihui Wang, Claes G Tropè, Zhenhe Suo, Gunhild Trøen, Guanrui Yang, Jahn M Nesland, and Ruth Holm
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 308. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-308.
PMCID: PMC2577690
Frequently increased epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) copy numbers and decreased BRCA1 mRNA expression in Japanese triple-negative breast cancers
Tatsuya Toyama, Hiroko Yamashita, Naoto Kondo, Katsuhiro Okuda, Satoru Takahashi, Hidefumi Sasaki, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hirotaka Iwase, and Yoshitaka Fujii
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 309. Published online 2008 October 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-309.
PMCID: PMC2612006
Anti-proliferative effects of Bifidobacterium adolescentis SPM0212 extract on human colon cancer cell lines
Do Kyung Lee, Seok Jang, Mi Jin Kim, Jung Hyun Kim, Myung Jun Chung, Kyung Jae Kim, and Nam Joo Ha
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 310. Published online 2008 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-310.
PMCID: PMC2605768
The population-based oncological health care study OVIS – recruitment of the patients and analysis of the non-participants
Ron Pritzkuleit, Annika Waldmann, Heiner Raspe, and Alexander Katalinic
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 311. Published online 2008 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-311.
PMCID: PMC2584658
Heat shock protein90 in lobular neoplasia of the breast
Flora Zagouri, Afrodite Nonni, Theodoros N Sergentanis, Christos A Papadimitriou, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos, Andreas C Lazaris, Efstratios Patsouris, and George C Zografos
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 312. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-312.
PMCID: PMC2588461
Heterogeneous in vitro effects of doxorubicin on gene expression in primary human liposarcoma cultures
Daigeler Adrien, Klein-Hitpass Ludger, Chromik Ansgar Michael, Müller Oliver, Hauser Jörg, Homann Heinz-Herbert, Steinau Hans-Ulrich, and Lehnhardt Marcus
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 313. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-313.
PMCID: PMC2585096
Integrating chromosomal aberrations and gene expression profiles to dissect rectal tumorigenesis
Esther H Lips, Ronald van Eijk, Eelco JR de Graaf, Jan Oosting, Noel FCC de Miranda, Tom Karsten, Cornelis J van de Velde, Paul HC Eilers, Rob AEM Tollenaar, Tom van Wezel, and Hans Morreau
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 314. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-314.
PMCID: PMC2584339
Co-regulation analysis of closely linked genes identifies a highly recurrent gain on chromosome 17q25.3 in prostate cancer
Raquel Bermudo, David Abia, Berta Ferrer, Iracema Nayach, Alberto Benguria, Ángel Zaballos, Javier del Rey, Rosa Miró, Elías Campo, Carlos Martínez-A, Ángel R Ortiz, Pedro L Fernández, and Timothy M Thomson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 315. Published online 2008 October 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-315.
PMCID: PMC2585097
Role of drug transporters and drug accumulation in the temporal acquisition of drug resistance
Stacey L Hembruff, Monique L Laberge, David J Villeneuve, Baoqing Guo, Zachary Veitch, Melanie Cecchetto, and Amadeo M Parissenti
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 318. Published online 2008 November 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-318.
PMCID: PMC2596802
Spontaneous transformation of human granulosa cell tumours into an aggressive phenotype: a metastasis model cell line
Misa Imai, Miho Muraki, Kiyoshi Takamatsu, Hidekazu Saito, Motoharu Seiki, and Yuji Takahashi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 319. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-319.
PMCID: PMC2584659
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha expression increases during colorectal carcinogenesis and tumor progression
Nektaria Simiantonaki, Marios Taxeidis, Caren Jayasinghe, Ursula Kurzik-Dumke, and Charles James Kirkpatrick
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 320. Published online 2008 November 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-320.
PMCID: PMC2584660
A prospective study of Helicobacter pylori in relation to the risk for pancreatic cancer
Björn Lindkvist, Dorthe Johansen, Anders Borgström, and Jonas Manjer
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 321. Published online 2008 November 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-321.
PMCID: PMC2613155
Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphism and endometrial cancer risk – a case-control study
Sara Wedrén, Lovisa Lovmar, Keith Humphreys, Cecilia Magnusson, Håkan Melhus, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Andreas Kindmark, Ulf Landegren, Maria Lagerström Fermér, Fredrik Stiger, Ingemar Persson, John A Baron, and Elisabete Weiderpass
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 322. Published online 2008 November 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-322.
PMCID: PMC2613912
The reversal of recurrence hazard rate between ER positive and negative breast cancer patients with axillary lymph node dissection (pathological stage I-III) 3 years after surgery
Takayoshi Kiba, Takashi Inamoto, Tsutomu Nishimura, Masaya Ueno, Kazuhiro Yanagihara, Satoshi Teramukai, Hironori Kato, Masakazu Toi, and Masanori Fukushima
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 323. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-323.
PMCID: PMC2585098
Important prognostic factors for the long-term survival of lung cancer subjects in Taiwan
Tai-An Chiang, Ping-Ho Chen, Pei-Fen Wu, Tsu-Nai Wang, Po-Ya Chang, Albert Min-Shan Ko, Ming-Shyan Huang, and Ying-Chin Ko
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 324. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-324.
PMCID: PMC2587478
Hepatocyte growth factor enhances death receptor-induced apoptosis by up-regulating DR5
Yang Li, Xing Fan, C Rory Goodwin, John Laterra, and Shuli Xia
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 325. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-325.
PMCID: PMC2590617
Low-penetrance alleles predisposing to sporadic colorectal cancers: a French case-controlled genetic association study
Sébastien Küry, Bruno Buecher, Sébastien Robiou-du-Pont, Catherine Scoul, Hélène Colman, Tanguy Le Neel, Claire Le Houérou, Roger Faroux, Jean Ollivry, Bernard Lafraise, Louis-Dominique Chupin, Véronique Sébille, and Stéphane Bézieau
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 326. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-326.
PMCID: PMC2585099
Methylation of WTH3, a possible drug resistant gene, inhibits p53 regulated expression
Kegui Tian, Yuezeng Wang, Yu Huang, Boqiao Sun, Yuxin Li, and Haopeng Xu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 327. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-327.
PMCID: PMC2588621
Clinicopathological significance of expression of p-c-Jun, TCF4 and beta-Catenin in colorectal tumors
Kayoko Takeda, Ichiro Kinoshita, Yasushi Shimizu, Yusuke Ohba, Tomoo Itoh, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Toshiaki Shichinohe, and Hirotoshi Dosaka-Akita
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 328. Published online 2008 November 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-328.
PMCID: PMC2585585
Frameshift mutations in coding repeats of protein tyrosine phosphatase genes in colorectal tumors with microsatellite instability
Sebastian Korff, Stefan M Woerner, Yan P Yuan, Peer Bork, Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, and Johannes Gebert
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 329. Published online 2008 November 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-329.
PMCID: PMC2586028
Quality of life in patients with breast cancer before and after diagnosis: an eighteen months follow-up study
Ali Montazeri, Mariam Vahdaninia, Iraj Harirchi, Mandana Ebrahimi, Fatemeh Khaleghi, and Soghra Jarvandi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 330. Published online 2008 November 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-330.
PMCID: PMC2588619
Deoxycholic acid induces the overexpression of intestinal mucin, MUC2, via NF-kB signaling pathway in human esophageal adenocarcinoma cells
JianTao Wu, Jun Gong, Juan Geng, and YinXue Song
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 333. Published online 2008 November 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-333.
PMCID: PMC2596174
Elevation of circulating big endothelin-1: an independent prognostic factor for tumor recurrence and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Wenjie Jiao, Jing Xu, Jinsheng Zheng, Yi Shen, Lesheng Lin, and Jian Li
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 334. Published online 2008 November 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-334.
PMCID: PMC2605466
Dissemination of periodic mammography and patterns of use, by birth cohort, in Catalonia (Spain)
Montserrat Rue, Misericordia Carles, Ester Vilaprinyo, Montserrat Martinez-Alonso, Josep-Alfons Espinas, Roger Pla, and Pilar Brugulat
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 336. Published online 2008 November 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-336.
PMCID: PMC2613154
Activation of MEK1 or MEK2 isoform is sufficient to fully transform intestinal epithelial cells and induce the formation of metastatic tumors
Laure Voisin, Catherine Julien, Stéphanie Duhamel, Kailesh Gopalbhai, Isabelle Claveau, Marc K Saba-El-Leil, Ian Gaël Rodrigue-Gervais, Louis Gaboury, Daniel Lamarre, Mark Basik, and Sylvain Meloche
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 337. Published online 2008 November 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-337.
PMCID: PMC2596176
Leptin receptor Gln223Arg polymorphism and breast cancer risk in Nigerian women: A case control study
Michael N Okobia, Clareann H Bunker, Seymour J Garte, Joseph M Zmuda, Emmanuel R Ezeome, Stanley N Anyanwu, Emmanuel E Uche, Lewis H Kuller, Robert E Ferrell, and Emanuela Taioli
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 338. Published online 2008 November 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-338.
PMCID: PMC2613914
Male tobacco smoke load and non-lung cancer mortality associations in Massachusetts
Bruce N Leistikow, Zubair Kabir, Gregory N Connolly, Luke Clancy, and Hillel R Alpert
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 341. Published online 2008 November 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-341.
PMCID: PMC2606690
Tripeptide tyroserleutide plus doxorubicin: therapeutic synergy and side effect attenuation
Zhi-feng Zhu, Li-juan Chen, Rong Lu, Jing Jia, Yu Liang, Qiong Xu, Chun-lei Zhou, Li Wang, Song Wang, and Zhi Yao
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 342. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-342.
PMCID: PMC2601048
Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems
S Yousuf Zafar, Amy P Abernethy, David H Abbott, Steven C Grambow, Jennifer E Marcello, James E Herndon, II, Krista L Rowe, Jane T Kolimaga, Leah L Zullig, Meenal B Patwardhan, and Dawn T Provenzale
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 345. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-345.
PMCID: PMC2613913
Immunohistochemical profiling of benign, low malignant potential and low grade serous epithelial ovarian tumors
Véronique Ouellet, Tak Hay Ling, Karine Normandin, Jason Madore, Christian Lussier, Véronique Barrès, Dimcho Bachvarov, Claudine Rancourt, Patricia N Tonin, Diane M Provencher, and Anne-Marie Mes-Masson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 346. Published online 2008 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-346.
PMCID: PMC2610034
Gene expression profile of cervical and skin tissues from human papillomavirus type 16 E6 transgenic mice
D Mendoza-Villanueva, J Diaz-Chavez, L Uribe-Figueroa, C Rangel-Escareão, A Hidalgo-Miranda, S March-Mifsut, G Jimenez-Sanchez, PF Lambert, and P Gariglio
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 347. Published online 2008 November 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-347.
PMCID: PMC2610035
Validation of putative reference genes for gene expression studies in human hepatocellular carcinoma using real-time quantitative RT-PCR
Vito R Cicinnati, Qingli Shen, Georgios C Sotiropoulos, Arnold Radtke, Guido Gerken, and Susanne Beckebaum
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 350. Published online 2008 November 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-350.
PMCID: PMC2607287
Stereotactic body radiation therapy with or without transarterial chemoembolization for patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma: preliminary analysis
Byung Ock Choi, Ihl Bohng Choi, Hong Seok Jang, Young Nam Kang, Ji Sun Jang, Si Hyun Bae, Seung Kew Yoon, Gyu Young Chai, and Ki Mun Kang
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 351. Published online 2008 November 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-351.
PMCID: PMC2615783
Endothelin receptor B antagonists decrease glioma cell viability independently of their cognate receptor
Jennifer P Montgomery and Paul H Patterson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 354. Published online 2008 November 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-354.
PMCID: PMC2613414
Systematic review of the relation between smokeless tobacco and cancer of the pancreas in Europe and North America
Zheng Sponsiello-Wang, Rolf Weitkunat, and Peter N Lee
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 356. Published online 2008 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-356.
PMCID: PMC2612688
The use of gamma-irradiation and ultraviolet-irradiation in the preparation of human melanoma cells for use in autologous whole-cell vaccines
Donna H Deacon, Kevin T Hogan, Erin M Swanson, Kimberly A Chianese-Bullock, Chadrick E Denlinger, Andrea R Czarkowski, Randy S Schrecengost, James W Patterson, Mark W Teague, and Craig L Slingluff, Jr
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 360. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-360.
PMCID: PMC2612687
Analysis of EGFR, HER2, and TOP2A gene status and chromosomal polysomy in gastric adenocarcinoma from Chinese patients
Zhiyong Liang, Xuan Zeng, Jie Gao, Shafei Wu, Peng Wang, Xiaohua Shi, Jing Zhang, and Tonghua Liu
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 363. Published online 2008 December 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-363.
PMCID: PMC2613415
Protein kinase Cepsilon is important for migration of neuroblastoma cells
Helena Stensman and Christer Larsson
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 365. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-365.
PMCID: PMC2615448
Gemcitabine-based versus fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy with or without platinum in unresectable biliary tract cancer: a retrospective study
Mi-Jung Kim, Do-Youn Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Seock-Ah Im, Tae-You Kim, Dae Seog Heo, and Yung-Jue Bang
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 374. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-374.
PMCID: PMC2615782
Aberrant Expression of ID2 protein and its correlation with EBV-LMP1 and P16(INK4A) in Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma in China
Po Zhao, Yali Lu, Lin Liu, and Mei Zhong
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 379. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-379.
PMCID: PMC2625365
Role of cAMP in the promotion of colorectal cancer cell growth by Prostaglandin E2
Ivonne Löffler, Michael Grün, Frank D Böhmer, and Ignacio Rubio
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 380. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-380.
PMCID: PMC2615781
Antioxidant intervention of smoking-induced lung tumor in mice by vitamin E and quercetin
Jie Yang, Lu Wang, Zhaoli Chen, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Min Jin, Xin-Wei Wang, Yufei Zheng, Zhi-Gang Qiu, Jing-feng Wang, and Jun-Wen Li
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 383. Published online 2008 December 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-383.
PMCID: PMC2625366
Correction
Correction: The enhanced expression of the matrix metalloproteinase 9 in nasal NK/T-cell lymphoma
Koh-ichi Sakata, Masanori Someya, Mutsuko Omatsu, Hiroko Asanuma, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shingo Ichimiya, Masato Hareyama, and Tetsuo Himi
BMC Cancer. 2008; 8: 45. Published online 2008 February 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-45.
PMCID: PMC2257955
Corrects: Koh-ichi Sakata, et al. The enhanced expression of the matrix metalloproteinase 9 in nasal NK/T-cell lymphoma. BMC Cancer. 2007; 7: 229.
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