| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCorrespondence Contamination and sample mix-up can best explain some patterns of mtDNA instabilities in buccal cells and oral squamous cell carcinoma Hans-Jürgen Bandelt and Antonio Salas BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 113. Published online 2009 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-113.PMCID: PMC2678148 Hypothesis Hypothesis: primary antiangiogenic method proposed to treat early stage breast cancer Michael W Retsky, William JM Hrushesky, and Isaac D Gukas BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 7. Published online 2009 January 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-7.PMCID: PMC2633344 Study Protocol Impact of age, leukocyte count and day 21-bone marrow response to chemotherapy on the long-term outcome of children with philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the pre-imatinib era: results of the FRALLE 93 study Virginie Gandemer, Marie-Francoise Auclerc, Yves Perel, Jean-Pierre Vannier, Edouard Le Gall, Francois Demeocq, Claudine Schmitt, Christophe Piguet, Jean-Louis Stephan, Odile Lejars, Marianne Debre, Philippe Jonveaux, Jean-Michel Cayuela, Sylvie Chevret, Guy Leverger, Andre Baruchel, and the FRALLE group BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 14. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-14.PMCID: PMC2629767 Total laparoscopic hysterectomy versus abdominal hysterectomy in the treatment of patients with early stage endometrial cancer: A randomized multi center study Claudia BM Bijen, Justine M Briët, Geertruida H de Bock, Henriëtte JG Arts, Johanna A Bergsma-Kadijk, and Marian JE Mourits BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 23. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-23.PMCID: PMC2630311 Establishing the added benefit of measuring MMP9 in FOB positive patients as a part of the Wolverhampton colorectal cancer screening programme Sue Wilson, Taina Taskila, Tariq Ismail, Deborah D Stocken, Ashley Martin, Val Redman, Michael Wakelam, Ian Perry, and Richard Hobbs BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 36. Published online 2009 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-36.PMCID: PMC2639610 Preoperative short-course radiotherapy versus combined radiochemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: a multi-centre prospectively randomised study of the Berlin Cancer Society Robert Siegel, Susen Burock, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, Albrecht Kretzschmar, Manfred Dietel, Volker Loy, Stephan Koswig, Volker Budach, and Peter M Schlag BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 50. Published online 2009 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-50.PMCID: PMC2650707 Research Articles Is overexpression of HER-2 a predictor of prognosis in colorectal cancer? Dara O Kavanagh, Gillian Chambers, Liam O' Grady, Kevin M Barry, Ronan P Waldron, Fadel Bennani, Paul W Eustace, and Iqdam Tobbia BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 1. Published online 2009 January 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-1.PMCID: PMC2648993 Morbidity associated with "self-rated health" in epithelial ovarian cancer survivors Astrid Helene Liavaag, Anne Dørum, Sophie D Fosså, Claes Tropé, and Alv A Dahl BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 2. Published online 2009 January 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-2.PMCID: PMC2648995 Activation of the steroid and xenobiotic receptor, SXR, induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells Suman Verma, Michelle M Tabb, and Bruce Blumberg BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 3. Published online 2009 January 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-3.PMCID: PMC2631587 HER-2/neu amplification testing in breast cancer by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification: influence of manual- and laser microdissection Cathy B Moelans, Roel A de Weger, Chantal Ezendam, and Paul J van Diest BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 4. Published online 2009 January 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-4.PMCID: PMC2631004 Frequent loss of heterozygosity and altered expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene 'FAT' in human astrocytic tumors Kunzang Chosdol, Anjan Misra, Sachin Puri, Tapasya Srivastava, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay, Chitra Sarkar, Ashok K Mahapatra, and Subrata Sinha BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 5. Published online 2009 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-5.PMCID: PMC2631005 Evaluation of gene amplification and protein expression of HER-2/neu in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) and immunohistochemistry Yukie Sato-Kuwabara, José I Neves, José HTG Fregnani, Rubens A Sallum, and Fernando A Soares BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 6. Published online 2009 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-6.PMCID: PMC2648997 YKL-40 tissue expression and plasma levels in patients with ovarian cancer Estrid VS Høgdall, Merete Ringsholt, Claus K Høgdall, Ib Jarle Christensen, Julia S Johansen, Susanne K Kjaer, Jan Blaakaer, Lene Ostenfeld-Møller, Paul A Price, and Lise H Christensen BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 8. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-8.PMCID: PMC2645422 Self-renewal and chemotherapy resistance of p75NTR positive cells in esophageal squamous cell carcinomas Sheng-Dong Huang, Yang Yuan, Xiao-Hong Liu, De-Jun Gong, Chen-Guang Bai, Feng Wang, Jun-Hui Luo, and Zhi-Yun Xu BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 9. Published online 2009 January 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-9.PMCID: PMC2637890 RNA interference-mediated c-MYC inhibition prevents cell growth and decreases sensitivity to radio- and chemotherapy in childhood medulloblastoma cells André O von Bueren, Tarek Shalaby, Christoph Oehler-Jänne, Lucia Arnold, Duncan Stearns, Charles G Eberhart, Alexandre Arcaro, Martin Pruschy, and Michael A Grotzer BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 10. Published online 2009 January 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-10.PMCID: PMC2648994 Oral tongue cancer gene expression profiling: Identification of novel potential prognosticators by oligonucleotide microarray analysis Cherry L Estilo, Pornchai O-charoenrat, Simon Talbot, Nicholas D Socci, Diane L Carlson, Ronald Ghossein, Tijaana Williams, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, Yegnanarayana Ramanathan, Jay O Boyle, Dennis H Kraus, Snehal Patel, Ashok R Shaha, Richard J Wong, Joseph M Huryn, Jatin P Shah, and Bhuvanesh Singh BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 11. Published online 2009 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-11.PMCID: PMC2649155 Paxillin-Y118 phosphorylation contributes to the control of Src-induced anchorage-independent growth by FAK and adhesion Sanjay Sachdev, Yahao Bu, and Irwin H Gelman BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 12. Published online 2009 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-12.PMCID: PMC2651180 Results based on 124 cases of breast cancer and 97 controls from Taiwan suggest that the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP309) in the MDM2 gene promoter is associated with earlier onset and increased risk of breast cancer Ying-Fang Sun, Jyh-Der Leu, Su-Mei Chen, I-Feng Lin, and Yi-Jang Lee BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 13. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-13.PMCID: PMC2649157 Cured meat, vegetables, and bean-curd foods in relation to childhood acute leukemia risk: A population based case-control study Chen-yu Liu, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Ming-Tsang Wu, Pi-Chen Pan, Chi-Kung Ho, Li Su, Xin Xu, Yi Li, David C Christiani, and the Kaohsiung Leukemia Research Group BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 15. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-15.PMCID: PMC2653540 Identification of ATP synthase beta subunit (ATPB) on the cell surface as a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) associated antigen Ze-jun Lu, Qi-fang Song, Sa-sa Jiang, Qi Song, Wei Wang, Gao-hua Zhang, Bin Kan, Lan-tu Gou, Li-juan Chen, Feng Luo, Zhi Yong Qian, Jin-liang Yang, and Yu Quan Wei BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 16. Published online 2009 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-16.PMCID: PMC2654462 Combined use of expression and CGH arrays pinpoints novel candidate genes in Ewing sarcoma family of tumors Suvi Savola, Arto Klami, Abhishek Tripathi, Tarja Niini, Massimo Serra, Piero Picci, Samuel Kaski, Diana Zambelli, Katia Scotlandi, and Sakari Knuutila BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 17. Published online 2009 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-17.PMCID: PMC2633345 The value of diffusion-weighted imaging in assessing the ADC changes of tissues adjacent to breast carcinoma Zhang Yili, Huang Xiaoyan, Du Hongwen, Zhang Yun, Chen Xin, Wang Peng, and Guo Youmin BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 18. Published online 2009 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-18.PMCID: PMC2633008 Freund's vaccine adjuvant promotes Her2/Neu breast cancer Michelle S Cotroneo, Jill D Haag, Nicholas R Stapel, Jordy L Waller, Stephan Woditschka, and Michael N Gould BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 19. Published online 2009 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-19.PMCID: PMC2633343 Correlation between MMPs and their inhibitors in breast cancer tumor tissue specimens and in cell lines with different metastatic potential Rita CS Figueira, Luciana R Gomes, João S Neto, Fabricio C Silva, Ismael DCG Silva, and Mari C Sogayar BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 20. Published online 2009 January 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-20.PMCID: PMC2631003 A positioning pillow to improve lumbar puncture success rate in paediatric haematology-oncology patients: a randomized controlled trial Perrine Marec-Bérard, Alvine Bissery, Kamila Kebaïli, Matthias Schell, Françoise Aubert, Ségolène Gaillard, Muriel Rabilloud, Behrouz Kassaï, and Catherine Cornu BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 21. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-21.PMCID: PMC2651181 Gene expression profiling of alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS) Luke H Stockwin, David T Vistica, Susan Kenney, David S Schrump, Donna O Butcher, Mark Raffeld, and Robert H Shoemaker BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 22. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-22.PMCID: PMC2635365 Qualitative analysis of Adenomatous Polyposis Coli promoter: Hypermethylation, engagement and effects on survival of patients with esophageal cancer in a high risk region of the world, a potential molecular marker Maryam Zare, Ferdous Rastgar Jazii, Mohammad Reza Alivand, Negin Karimi Nasseri, Reza Malekzadeh, and Mansour Yazdanbod BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 24. Published online 2009 January 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-24.PMCID: PMC2637891 Microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer and association with thymidylate synthase and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase expression Søren A Jensen, Ben Vainer, Mogens Kruhøffer, and Jens B Sørensen BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 25. Published online 2009 January 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-25.PMCID: PMC2647942 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in breast tumors: prevalence in a group of Mexican patients David Cantu de León, Delia Pérez Montiel, Jana Nemcova, Iva Mykyskova, Elmer Turcios, Verónica Villavicencio, Lucely Cetina, Alberto Coronel, and Ondraj Hes BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 26. Published online 2009 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-26.PMCID: PMC2636825 The critical role of ERK in death resistance and invasiveness of hypoxia-selected glioblastoma cells Jee-Youn Kim, Yong-Jun Kim, Sun Lee, and Jae-Hoon Park BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 27. Published online 2009 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-27.PMCID: PMC2645423 Certified causes of death in patients with mesothelioma in South East England Catherine Okello, Tom Treasure, Andrew G Nicholson, Julian Peto, and Henrik Møller BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 28. Published online 2009 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-28.PMCID: PMC2639607 The intraportal injection model: A practical animal model for hepatic metastases and tumor cell dissemination in human colon cancer Andreas Thalheimer, Christoph Otto, Marco Bueter, Bertram Illert, Stefan Gattenlohner, Martin Gasser, Detlef Meyer, Martin Fein, Christoph T Germer, and Ana M Waaga-Gasser BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 29. Published online 2009 January 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-29.PMCID: PMC2648996 Characterization of SV-40 Tag rats as a model to study prostate cancer Curt E Harper, Brijesh B Patel, Leah M Cook, Jun Wang, Tomoyuki Shirai, Isam A Eltoum, and Coral A Lamartiniere BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 30. Published online 2009 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-30.PMCID: PMC2639608 Autocrine regulation of cell proliferation by estrogen receptor-alpha in estrogen receptor-alpha-positive breast cancer cell lines Huining Tan, Yili Zhong, and Zhongzong Pan BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 31. Published online 2009 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-31.PMCID: PMC2636826 Clinical significance of altered nm23-H1, EGFR, RB and p53 expression in bilharzial bladder cancer Hussein M Khaled, Abeer A Bahnassy, Amira A Raafat, Abdel-Rahman N Zekri, Maha S Madboul, and Nadia M Mokhtar BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 32. Published online 2009 January 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-32.PMCID: PMC2657793 Early and very early hepatocellular carcinoma: when and how much do staging and choice of treatment really matter? A multi-center study Fabio Farinati, Adriana Sergio, Anna Baldan, Anna Giacomin, Maria Anna Di Nolfo, Paolo Del Poggio, Luisa Benvegnu, Gianludovico Rapaccini, Marco Zoli, Franco Borzio, Edoardo G Giannini, Eugenio Caturelli, and Franco Trevisani BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 33. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-33.PMCID: PMC2640412 Metastatic renal cell cancer treatments: An indirect comparison meta-analysis Edward J Mills, Beth Rachlis, Chris O'Regan, Lehana Thabane, and Dan Perri BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 34. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-34.PMCID: PMC2637892 The association between RCAS1 expression in laryngeal and pharyngeal cancer and its healthy stroma with cancer relapse Magdalena Dutsch-Wicherek, Romana Tomaszewska, Agata Lazar, Lukasz Wicherek, and Jacek Skladzien BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 35. Published online 2009 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-35.PMCID: PMC2639609 Bioelectrical impedance phase angle in clinical practice: implications for prognosis in stage IIIB and IV non-small cell lung cancer Digant Gupta, Carolyn A Lammersfeld, Pankaj G Vashi, Jessica King, Sadie L Dahlk, James F Grutsch, and Christopher G Lis BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 37. Published online 2009 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-37.PMCID: PMC2637288 Activity of mevalonate pathway inhibitors against breast and ovarian cancers in the ATP-based tumour chemosensitivity assay Louise A Knight, Christian M Kurbacher, Sharon Glaysher, Augusta Fernando, Ralf Reichelt, Susanne Dexel, Uwe Reinhold, and Ian A Cree BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 38. Published online 2009 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-38.PMCID: PMC2642836 Disclosure of cancer diagnosis and quality of life in cancer patients: should it be the same everywhere? Ali Montazeri, Azadeh Tavoli, Mohammad Ali Mohagheghi, Rasool Roshan, and Zahra Tavoli BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 39. Published online 2009 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-39.PMCID: PMC2639611 Increased PADI4 expression in blood and tissues of patients with malignant tumors Xiaotian Chang, Jinxiang Han, Li Pang, Yan Zhao, Yi Yang, and Zhonglin Shen BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 40. Published online 2009 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-40.PMCID: PMC2637889 Identification of a potent herbal molecule for the treatment of breast cancer Srinivas Koduru, Srinivasan Sowmyalakshmi, Raj Kumar, Rohini Gomathinayagam, Jürgen Rohr, and Chendil Damodaran BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 41. Published online 2009 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-41.PMCID: PMC2649156 Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging of lipids in cancer metastasis Thuc T Le, Terry B Huff, and Ji-Xin Cheng BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 42. Published online 2009 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-42.PMCID: PMC2640413 Screening and association testing of common coding variation in steroid hormone receptor co-activator and co-repressor genes in relation to breast cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort Christopher A Haiman, Rachel R Garcia, Chris Hsu, Lucy Xia, Helen Ha, Xin Sheng, Loic Le Marchand, Laurence N Kolonel, Brian E Henderson, Michael R Stallcup, Geoffrey L Greene, and Michael F Press BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 43. Published online 2009 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-43.PMCID: PMC2637888 Specific gene expression profiles and chromosomal abnormalities are associated with infant disseminated neuroblastoma Cinzia Lavarino, Nai-Kong V Cheung, Idoia Garcia, Gema Domenech, Carmen de Torres, Miguel Alaminos, Jose Rios, William L Gerald, Brian Kushner, Mike LaQuaglia, and Jaume Mora BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 44. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-44.PMCID: PMC2642835 Secretion of MCP-1 and other paracrine factors in a novel tumor-bone coculture model Katherine R Schiller, Marion R Zillhardt, Jeremy Alley, Dori L Borjesson, Alvin J Beitz, and Laura J Mauro BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 45. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-45.PMCID: PMC2644314 Survival and hepatitis status among Asian Americans with hepatocellular carcinoma treated without liver transplantation Jessica P Hwang and Manal M Hassan BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 46. Published online 2009 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-46.PMCID: PMC2644315 Risk factors for lower limb lymphedema after lymph node dissection in patients with ovarian and uterine carcinoma Harue Tada, Satoshi Teramukai, Masanori Fukushima, and Hiroshi Sasaki BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 47. Published online 2009 February 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-47.PMCID: PMC2660366 High resolution human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II allele typing in Mexican mestizo women with sporadic breast cancer: case-control study David Cantú de León, Delia Pérez-Montiel, Verónica Villavicencio, Alejandro García Carranca, Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Alberto López-Tello, Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón, Rodrigo Barquera, Neng Yu, Edmond J Yunis, and Julio Granados BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 48. Published online 2009 February 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-48.PMCID: PMC2653544 Suitable reference genes for real-time PCR in human HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma with different clinical prognoses Li-Yun Fu, Hu-Liang Jia, Qiong-Zhu Dong, Jin-Cai Wu, Yue Zhao, Hai-Jun Zhou, Ning Ren, Qin-Hai Ye, and Lun-Xiu Qin BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 49. Published online 2009 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-49.PMCID: PMC2644316 Oncoprotein HCCR-1 expression in breast cancer is well correlated with known breast cancer prognostic factors including the HER2 overexpression, p53 mutation, and ER/PR status Seon-Ah Ha, Youn Soo Lee, Seung Min Shin, Hyun Kee Kim, Sanghee Kim, Hong Namkoong, Hae Joo Kim, Sang Min Jung, Yu Sun Lee, Yeun Jun Chung, Sang Seol Jung, and Jin Woo Kim BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 51. Published online 2009 February 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-51.PMCID: PMC2672955 Loss of full length CtBP1 expression enhances the invasive potential of human melanoma Andreas Winklmeier, Ina Poser, Keith S Hoek, and Anja K Bosserhoff BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 52. Published online 2009 February 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-52.PMCID: PMC2650708 The effect of the dual Src/Abl kinase inhibitor AZD0530 on Philadelphia positive leukaemia cell lines Patricia Mambou Gwanmesia, Annette Romanski, Kerstin Schwarz, Biserka Bacic, Martin Ruthardt, and Oliver G Ottmann BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 53. Published online 2009 February 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-53.PMCID: PMC2654659 Arrested neural and advanced mesenchymal differentiation of glioblastoma cells-comparative study with neural progenitors Piotr Rieske, Ewa Golanska, Magdalena Zakrzewska, Sylwester Piaskowski, Krystyna Hulas-Bigoszewska, Magdalena Wolańczyk, Malgorzata Szybka, Monika Witusik-Perkowska, Dariusz J Jaskolski, Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Wojciech Biernat, Barbara Krynska, and Pawel P Liberski BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 54. Published online 2009 February 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-54.PMCID: PMC2657909 Dynamic distribution and expression in vivo of the human interferon gamma gene delivered by adenoviral vector Jiangxue Wu, Xia Xiao, Hongyun Jia, Jiemin Chen, Yinghui Zhu, Peng Zhao, Huanxin Lin, and Wenlin Huang BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 55. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-55.PMCID: PMC2667533 Role of oxidative stress and intracellular glutathione in the sensitivity to apoptosis induced by proteasome inhibitor in thyroid cancer cells Zhen-Xian Du, Hai-Yan Zhang, Xin Meng, Yifu Guan, and Hua-Qin Wang BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 56. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-56.PMCID: PMC2666756 Absence of polysialylated NCAM is an unfavorable prognostic phenotype for advanced stage neuroblastoma Miikka Korja, Anne Jokilammi, Toivo T Salmi, Hannu Kalimo, Tarja-Terttu Pelliniemi, Jorma Isola, Immo Rantala, Hannu Haapasalo, and Jukka Finne BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 57. Published online 2009 February 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-57.PMCID: PMC2661096 Two mechanisms of the enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) efficacy of non-fucosylated therapeutic antibodies in human blood Shigeru Iida, Reiko Kuni-Kamochi, Katsuhiro Mori, Hirofumi Misaka, Miho Inoue, Akira Okazaki, Kenya Shitara, and Mitsuo Satoh BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 58. Published online 2009 February 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-58.PMCID: PMC2649154 The carboxyl terminal trimer of procollagen I induces pro-metastatic changes and vascularization in breast cancer cells xenografts Davide Visigalli, Daniela Palmieri, Antonella Strangio, Simonetta Astigiano, Ottavia Barbieri, Gianluigi Casartelli, Antonio Zicca, and Paola Manduca BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 59. Published online 2009 February 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-59.PMCID: PMC2652491 Effects of the single nucleotide polymorphism at MDM2 309 on breast cancer patients with/without BRCA1/2 mutations Hovav Nechushtan, Tamar Hamburger, Susan Mendelson, Luna Kadouri, Nir Sharon, Eli Pikarsky, and Tamar Peretz BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 60. Published online 2009 February 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-60.PMCID: PMC2667534 Expression of Bmi-1 is a prognostic marker in bladder cancer Zi-Ke Qin, Jian-An Yang, Yun-lin Ye, Xing Zhang, Li-Hua Xu, Fang-Jian Zhou, Hui Han, Zuo-Wei Liu, Li-Bing Song, and Mu-Sheng Zeng BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 61. Published online 2009 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-61.PMCID: PMC2652492 Role of BRCA2 mutation status on overall survival among breast cancer patients from Sardinia Mario Budroni, Rosaria Cesaraccio, Vincenzo Coviello, Ornelia Sechi, Daniela Pirino, Antonio Cossu, Francesco Tanda, Marina Pisano, Grazia Palomba, and Giuseppe Palmieri BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 62. Published online 2009 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-62.PMCID: PMC2653541 ARC (NSC 188491) has identical activity to Sangivamycin (NSC 65346) including inhibition of both P-TEFb and PKC Luke H Stockwin, Sherry X Yu, Howard Stotler, Melinda G Hollingshead, and Dianne L Newton BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 63. Published online 2009 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-63.PMCID: PMC2651907 Clinical implications of increased lymph vessel density in the lymphatic metastasis of early-stage invasive cervical carcinoma: a clinical immunohistochemical method study Shi-qian Zhang, Hao Yu, and Lin-lin Zhang BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 64. Published online 2009 February 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-64.PMCID: PMC2650709 Differential expression of Caveolin-1 in hepatocellular carcinoma: correlation with differentiation state, motility and invasion Murat Cokakli, Esra Erdal, Deniz Nart, Funda Yilmaz, Ozgul Sagol, Murat Kilic, Sedat Karademir, and Nese Atabey BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 65. Published online 2009 February 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-65.PMCID: PMC2656543 Randomised Phase I/II trial assessing the safety and efficacy of radiolabelled anti-carcinoembryonic antigen I131 KAb201 antibodies given intra-arterially or intravenously in patients with unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma Asma Sultana, Susannah Shore, Michael GT Raraty, Sobhan Vinjamuri, Jonathan E Evans, Catrin Tudur Smith, Steven Lane, Seema Chauhan, Lorraine Bosonnet, Conall Garvey, Robert Sutton, John P Neoptolemos, and Paula Ghaneh BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 66. Published online 2009 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-66.PMCID: PMC2656541 Expression of verotoxin-1 receptor Gb3 in breast cancer tissue and verotoxin-1 signal transduction to apoptosis David Johansson, Eldina Kosovac, Jasmin Moharer, Ingrid Ljuslinder, Thomas Brännström, Anders Johansson, and Parviz Behnam-Motlagh BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 67. Published online 2009 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-67.PMCID: PMC2650710 Rectal cancer treatment and outcome in the elderly: an audit based on the Swedish rectal cancer registry 1995–2004 Bärbel Jung, Lars Påhlman, Robert Johansson, and Erik Nilsson BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 68. Published online 2009 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-68.PMCID: PMC2653041 Carboxypeptidase 4 gene variants and early-onset intermediate-to-high risk prostate cancer Phillip L Ross, Iona Cheng, Xin Liu, Mine S Cicek, Peter R Carroll, Graham Casey, and John S Witte BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 69. Published online 2009 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-69.PMCID: PMC2657151 Clustering of cancer among families of cases with Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL), Multiple Myeloma (MM), Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL), Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS) and control subjects Helen H McDuffie, Punam Pahwa, Chandima P Karunanayake, John J Spinelli, and James A Dosman BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 70. Published online 2009 February 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-70.PMCID: PMC2653543 Loss of heterozygosity of TRIM3 in malignant gliomas Jean-Louis Boulay, Urs Stiefel, Elisabeth Taylor, Béatrice Dolder, Adrian Merlo, and Frank Hirth BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 71. Published online 2009 February 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-71.PMCID: PMC2653542 Differential expression of topoisomerase IIα protein in salivary gland carcinomas: histogenetic and prognostic implications Shin-ichiro Maruya, Takashi Shirasaki, Takahiko Nagaki, Seiji Kakehata, Hidekachi Kurotaki, Hiroki Mizukami, and Hideichi Shinkawa BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 72. Published online 2009 February 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-72.PMCID: PMC2654461 The role of PET/CT in detection of gastric cancer recurrence Sung Hoon Sim, Yu Jung Kim, Do-Youn Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Won Jun Kang, Seock-Ah Im, Tae-You Kim, Woo Ho Kim, Dae Seog Heo, and Yung-Jue Bang BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 73. Published online 2009 March 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-73.PMCID: PMC2651906 Functional characterization of E- and P-cadherin in invasive breast cancer cells David Sarrió, José Palacios, Marta Hergueta-Redondo, Gonzalo Gómez-López, Amparo Cano, and Gema Moreno-Bueno BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 74. Published online 2009 March 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-74.PMCID: PMC2656544 Id2 promotes the invasive growth of MCF-7 and SKOV-3 cells by a novel mechanism independent of dimerization to basic helix-loop-helix factors Yuanguang Meng, Chenglei Gu, Zhiqiang Wu, Yali Zhao, Yiling Si, Xiaobing Fu, and Weidong Han BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 75. Published online 2009 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-75.PMCID: PMC2654660 Knowledge of risk factors, beliefs and practices of female healthcare professionals towards breast cancer in a tertiary institution in Lagos, Nigeria Nasiru A Ibrahim and Olumuyiwa O Odusanya BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 76. Published online 2009 March 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-76.PMCID: PMC2656542 Genes of cell-cell interactions, chemotherapy detoxification and apoptosis are induced during chemotherapy of acute myeloid leukemia Anne Margrete Øyan, Nina Ånensen, Trond Hellem Bø, Laila Stordrange, Inge Jonassen, Øystein Bruserud, Karl-Henning Kalland, and Bjørn Tore Gjertsen BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 77. Published online 2009 March 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-77.PMCID: PMC2673224 The prognostic value of four interleukin-1 gene polymorphisms in caucasian women with breast cancer – a multicenter study Christoph Grimm, Eva Kantelhardt, Georg Heinze, Stephan Polterauer, Robert Zeillinger, Heinz Kölbl, Alexander Reinthaller, and Lukas Hefler BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 78. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-78.PMCID: PMC2656545 The high affinity selectin glycan ligand C2-O-sLex and mRNA transcripts of the core 2 β-1,6-N-acetylglusaminyltransferase (C2GnT1) gene are highly expressed in human colorectal adenocarcinomas Catherine A St Hill, Mariya Farooqui, Gregory Mitcheltree, H Evin Gulbahce, Jose Jessurun, Qing Cao, and Bruce Walcheck BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 79. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-79.PMCID: PMC2662873 ADAM33 gene silencing by promoter hypermethylation as a molecular marker in breast invasive lobular carcinoma Gerusa G Seniski, Anamaria A Camargo, Daniela F Ierardi, Edneia AS Ramos, Mariana Grochoski, Enilze SF Ribeiro, Iglenir J Cavalli, Fabio O Pedrosa, Emanuel M de Souza, Silvio M Zanata, Fabrício F Costa, and Giseli Klassen BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 80. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-80.PMCID: PMC2660367 Characterization of STAT3 activation and expression in canine and human osteosarcoma Stacey L Fossey, Albert T Liao, Jennifer K McCleese, Misty D Bear, Jiayuh Lin, Pui-Kai Li, William C Kisseberth, and Cheryl A London BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 81. Published online 2009 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-81.PMCID: PMC2666757 Sunitinib treatment for patients with clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma: clinical outcomes and plasma angiogenesis markers Loukas F Kontovinis, Konstantinos T Papazisis, Panagiota Touplikioti, Charalambos Andreadis, Despoina Mouratidou, and Alexandros H Kortsaris BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 82. Published online 2009 March 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-82.PMCID: PMC2662874 APRIL is overexpressed in cancer: link with tumor progression Jérôme Moreaux, Jean-Luc Veyrune, John De Vos, and Bernard Klein BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 83. Published online 2009 March 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-83.PMCID: PMC2662875 Breast cancer epidemiology according to recognized breast cancer risk factors in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Cohort James V Lacey, Jr, Aimee R Kreimer, Saundra S Buys, Pamela M Marcus, Shih-Chen Chang, Michael F Leitzmann, Robert N Hoover, Philip C Prorok, Christine D Berg, Patricia Hartge, and the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Project Team BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 84. Published online 2009 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-84.PMCID: PMC2670317 Enhanced antitumor efficacy of cisplatin in combination with HemoHIM in tumor-bearing mice Hae-Ran Park, Eun-Jin Ju, Sung-Kee Jo, Uhee Jung, Sung-Ho Kim, and Sung-Tae Yee BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 85. Published online 2009 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-85.PMCID: PMC2666758 The prevalence of BRCA1 mutations among young women with triple-negative breast cancer SR Young, Robert T Pilarski, Talia Donenberg, Charles Shapiro, Lyn S Hammond, Judith Miller, Karen A Brooks, Stephanie Cohen, Beverly Tenenholz, Damini DeSai, Inuk Zandvakili, Robert Royer, Song Li, and Steven A Narod BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 86. Published online 2009 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-86.PMCID: PMC2666759 Overexpression of UbcH10 alternates the cell cycle profile and accelerate the tumor proliferation in colon cancer Takeo Fujita, Hirokuni Ikeda, Naruto Taira, Shinji Hatoh, Minoru Naito, and Hiroyoshi Doihara BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 87. Published online 2009 March 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-87.PMCID: PMC2666760 Circulating cell death products predict clinical outcome of colorectal cancer patients Pim J Koelink, Cornelis BHW Lamers, Daan W Hommes, and Hein W Verspaget BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 88. Published online 2009 March 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-88.PMCID: PMC2666761 Plausibility of stromal initiation of epithelial cancers without a mutation in the epithelium: a computer simulation of morphostats Stuart G Baker, Ana M Soto, Carlos Sonnenschein, Antonio Cappuccio, John D Potter, and Barnett S Kramer BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 89. Published online 2009 March 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-89.PMCID: PMC2663766 Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and chromogenic in situ hybridization: precise methods to detect HER-2 status in breast carcinoma Fabíola E Rosa, Sara M Silveira, Cássia GT Silveira, Nádia A Bérgamo, Francisco A Moraes Neto, Maria AC Domingues, Fernando A Soares, José RF Caldeira, and Silvia R Rogatto BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 90. Published online 2009 March 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-90.PMCID: PMC2667535 Population based prostate cancer screening in north Mexico reveals a high prevalence of aggressive tumors in detected cases Lauro S Gomez-Guerra, Margarita L Martinez-Fierro, Valeria Alcantara-Aragon, Rocio Ortiz-Lopez, Rebeca T Martinez-Villarreal, Idelma B Morales-Rodriguez, Raquel Garza-Guajardo, Marco A Ponce-Camacho, and Augusto Rojas-Martinez BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 91. Published online 2009 March 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-91.PMCID: PMC2666762 Androgen deprivation modulates the inflammatory response induced by irradiation Chun-Te Wu, Wen-Cheng Chen, Paul-Yang Lin, Shuen-Kuei Liao, and Miao-Fen Chen BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 92. Published online 2009 March 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-92.PMCID: PMC2667536 QPRT: a potential marker for follicular thyroid carcinoma including minimal invasive variant; a gene expression, RNA and immunohistochemical study Nora Hinsch, Matthias Frank, Claudia Döring, Christian Vorländer, and Martin-Leo Hansmann BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 93. Published online 2009 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-93.PMCID: PMC2667537 Staged stromal extracellular 3D matrices differentially regulate breast cancer cell responses through PI3K and beta1-integrins Remedios Castelló-Cros, David R Khan, Jeffrey Simons, Matthildi Valianou, and Edna Cukierman BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 94. Published online 2009 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-94.PMCID: PMC2669806 Microvessel density as new prognostic marker after radiotherapy in rectal cancer Saulius Svagzdys, Vaiva Lesauskaite, Dainius Pavalkis, Irena Nedzelskienė, Darius Pranys, and Algimantas Tamelis BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 95. Published online 2009 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-95.PMCID: PMC2666763 MRM screening/biomarker discovery with linear ion trap MS: a library of human cancer-specific peptides Xu Yang and Iulia M Lazar BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 96. Published online 2009 March 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-96.PMCID: PMC2670839 Fenretinide-induced caspase-8 activation and apoptosis in an established model of metastatic neuroblastoma Gilda Raguénez, Annick Mühlethaler-Mottet, Roland Meier, Caroline Duros, Jean Bénard, and Nicole Gross BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 97. Published online 2009 March 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-97.PMCID: PMC2670318 New structural analogues of curcumin exhibit potent growth suppressive activity in human colorectal carcinoma cells Ling Cen, Brian Hutzen, Sarah Ball, Stephanie DeAngelis, Chun-Liang Chen, James R Fuchs, Chenglong Li, Pui-Kai Li, and Jiayuh Lin BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 99. Published online 2009 March 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-99.PMCID: PMC2674881 Treatment of recurrent malignant gliomas with fotemustine monotherapy: impact of dose and correlation with MGMT promoter methylation Alessandra Fabi, Giulio Metro, Michelangelo Russillo, Antonello Vidiri, Carmine Maria Carapella, Marta Maschio, Francesco Cognetti, Bruno Jandolo, Maria Alessandra Mirri, Isabella Sperduti, Stefano Telera, Mariantonia Carosi, and Andrea Pace BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 101. Published online 2009 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-101.PMCID: PMC2667532 Up-regulation of bone marrow stromal protein 2 (BST2) in breast cancer with bone metastasis Dongqing Cai, Jie Cao, Zhen Li, Xin Zheng, Yao Yao, Wanglin Li, and Ziqiang Yuan BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 102. Published online 2009 April 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-102.PMCID: PMC2674058 The subcellular localization of IGFBP5 affects its cell growth and migration functions in breast cancer Mustafa Akkiprik, Limei Hu, Aysegul Sahin, Xishan Hao, and Wei Zhang BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 103. Published online 2009 April 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-103.PMCID: PMC2670316 Prognostic scores in brain metastases from breast cancer Carsten Nieder, Kirsten Marienhagen, Sabrina T Astner, and Michael Molls BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 105. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-105.PMCID: PMC2674059 Rosiglitazone synergizes anticancer activity of cisplatin and reduces its nephrotoxicity in 7, 12-dimethyl benz{a}anthracene (DMBA) induced breast cancer rats Kulbhushan Tikoo, Parveen Kumar, and Jeena Gupta BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 107. Published online 2009 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-107.PMCID: PMC2676298 Immunostaining with D2–40 improves evaluation of lymphovascular invasion, but may not predict sentinel lymph node status in early breast cancer Anna V Britto, André A Schenka, Natália G Moraes-Schenka, Marcelo Alvarenga, Júlia Y Shinzato, José Vassallo, and Laura S Ward BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 109. Published online 2009 April 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-109.PMCID: PMC2674880 A retrospective analysis of second-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer Sang Hoon Ji, Do Hyoung Lim, Seong Yoon Yi, Hyo Song Kim, Hyun Jung Jun, Kyoung Ha Kim, Myung Hee Chang, Min Jae Park, Ji Eun Uhm, Jeeyun Lee, Se Hoon Park, Joon Oh Park, Young Suk Park, Ho Yeong Lim, and Won Ki Kang BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 110. Published online 2009 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-110.PMCID: PMC2671521 KRAS mutation analysis in ovarian samples using a high sensitivity biochip assay Veronika Auner, Gernot Kriegshäuser, Dan Tong, Reinhard Horvat, Alexander Reinthaller, Alexander Mustea, and Robert Zeillinger BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 111. Published online 2009 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-111.PMCID: PMC2671522 Cetuximab in combination with irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid (FOLFIRI) in the initial treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer: a multicentre two-part phase I/II study Jean-Luc Raoul, Jean-Luc Van Laethem, Marc Peeters, Catherine Brezault, Fares Husseini, Laurent Cals, Johannes Nippgen, Anja-Helena Loos, and Philippe Rougier BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 112. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-112.PMCID: PMC2678147 Activation of P2X7-mediated apoptosis Inhibits DMBA/TPA-induced formation of skin papillomas and cancer in mice Wen Fu, Tom McCormick, Xiaoping Qi, Liping Luo, Lingyin Zhou, Xin Li, Bing-Cheng Wang, Heidi E Gibbons, Fadi W Abdul-Karim, and George I Gorodeski BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 114. Published online 2009 April 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-114.PMCID: PMC2676299 Debate Revisiting perioperative chemotherapy: the critical importance of targeting residual cancer prior to wound healing William W Harless BMC Cancer. 2009; 9: 118. Published online 2009 April 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-118.PMCID: PMC2678149 |