| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCommentary 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? 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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