Volume 1

Issue A

Pages
Title
Type
Authors
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1 -9

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

Research Article Adorján F. Kovács MD, DMD

11-19

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

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

21-29

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

 

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

31-37

Vascular endothelial growth factor modulates cisplatin sensitivity in human ovarian carcinoma cells


Research Article Guodong Hu, Sean Ryan, Yunfeng Zhu, Eddie Reed, Xiping Li, Gangduo Wang, and Qingdi Q. L

39-46

Overexpression of angiogenic growth factors in lung cancer cells is associated with cisplatin resistance


 

Research Article Xiping Li1, Xuyi Liu, Jie Wang, Zengli Wang, Wei Jiang, Eddie Reed, Yi Zhang, Yuanlin Liu, and Q. Quentin Li
47-61

Cisplatin nephrotoxicity: molecular mechanisms


 

Review Article Marie H. Hanigan and Prasad Devarajan
63-70

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

Research Article Massimo Federico, Vincenzo Callea, Romano Danesi, Antonella Montanini1, Nicola Di Renzo, Mario Petrini, Mario Del Tacca, Maria Angela Sirotti, Giovanni Santacroce, Alberto Bagnulo, Matteo Dell’Olio and Maura Brugiatelli
71-79

Chemotherapy in elderly patients with advanced breast cancer

 

 

Review Article Giuseppe Colantuoni, Antonio Rossi, Carmine Ferrara, Dario Nicolella, Filomena Del Gaizo, Ciro Guerriero, Giuseppe Airoma, Maria Luisa Barzelloni, Paolo Maione, Vincenzo Salerno, Cesare Gridelli
81-92

Drug resistance in breast cancer


Review Article Hermann Lage
93-102

Screening for lung cancer: a review and current status

Review Article Deborah S Bruno and William Tester
103-107

Expression of RB1CC1, a novel tumor suppressor gene, is inversely correlated with the Ki-67 proliferation index in primary breast cancers


 

Research Article Koji Teramoto, Tokuhiro Chano, Yoshitomo Ozaki, Satoru Sawai, Noriaki Tezuka, Keiichi Kontani, Shozo Fujino, Hidetoshi Okabe
109-120

 

Approaches to the treatment of brain tumors using cytokine-secreting allogeneic fibroblasts


 

Research Article Terry Lichtor, Roberta P Glick, Edward P Cohe

121-131

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

 

Research Article Matthias Loehr, Jens-Christian Krueger, Anne Hoffmeyer, Mathias Freund, Johannes Hain, Albrecht Holle, Wolfram T. Knoefel, Stefan Liebe, Horst Nizze, Matthias Renner, Robert Saller, Petra Mueller, Thomas Wagner, Karlheinz Hauenstein, Brian Salmons and Walter H. Guenzburg
133-142

 

Electrochemotherapy: advantages and drawbacks in treatment of cancer patients



Review Article  
143-151

p16 downregulates VEGF and inhibits angiogenesis in breast cancer cells


 

Research Article Yi Lu, Jun Zhang, Derrick J. Beech, Linda K. Myers, and Lisa K. Jennings
153-162

 

Basic fibroblast growth factor antisense oligonucleotides inhibit renal cell carcinoma cell growth and angiogenesis



Research Article Wenyin Shi and Dietmar W. Siemann
163-171

 

Antitumoral cell-based therapies


 

 

Review Article Javier García-Castro, Daniel Rubio, Ricardo de la Fuente, Antonio Bernad
173-178

 

Can mortalin be a candidate target for cancer therapy?


Review Article Renu Wadhwa, Kazunari Taira and Sunil C Kaul
179-190

 

Therapeutic potential of antinuclear autoantibodies in cancer


 

Review Article / Hypothesis Vladimir P. Torchilin, Leonid Z. Iakoubov, Zeev Estrov
191-196

 

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

 

 

Research Article

Yolande B. Saab, Leyla Sharaf, Ismail Zeidan

197-202

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

 

 

 

Research Article Vittorio Gebbia, Francesco Giuliani, Generoso Uomo, Evaristo Maiello, Maria Rosaria Valerio, Nicolo Borsellino, Nicolò Gebbia4 and Giuseppe Colucci
203-208

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

 



Research Article Limacher JM, Duclos B, Dufour P, Wihlm J§, Leveque D, Jehl F, Eichler F, Keiling R, Natarajan-Ame S, Kurtz JE, Bergerat JP
209-213

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



 

Research Article Toshiaki Hitora, Takashi Marui, Tetsuji Yamamoto, Toshihiro Akisue, Teruya Kawamoto, Keiko Nagira, Tetsuya Nakatani, Shinichi Yoshiya, Masahiro Kurosaka
215-221

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



Research Article RF Ambinder, S. Lee, WJ Curran, JA Sparano4, RL Krigel, J McArthur, C Schultz, CE Freter7, L Kaplan, JH VonRoenn
223-232

Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer: addressing the controversies

 

 

Review Article Anees Chagpar, John Pilavas, Celia Chao, Robert C.G. Martin II, Kelly M. McMasters
233-236

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


Review Article P.G. Corrie, D.J. Kerr, K Bennett, C.B. Wilson , R. Midgley2, P. Brown
237-244

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


 

 

Review Article Susannah E. Motl
145-256

 

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


 

Research Article Berghmans T, Lafitte JJ, Mascaux C, Meert AP1, Paesmans M2 and Sculier JP
257-262

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

 

Research Article


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

263-268

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


 

 

Review Article Mark Levin
269-273

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


 

 

Review Article Afshin Teymoortash*, Jochen A. Werner
275-281

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

Review Article

Jihua Liu, David Durrant and Ray M. Lee* Huntsman Cancer Institute and Section of Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112

283-291

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


 

 

Research Article

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


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

293-298

Allelic loss at the SEP15 locus in breast cancer


 

 

Research Article

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


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

299-314

Dendritic cell based vaccines for immunotherapy of cancer


 

 

Review Article

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


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

315-322

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


 

 

Review Article

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


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

323-333

Molecular therapy of gastric cancer


 

Review Article

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


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

335-342

Tumor angiogenesis as a strategy for radiosensitization


 

 

Review Article

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


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

343-351

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


 

 

Review Article

Yinghui Huang and Ruth A. Gjerset

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

353-362

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


 

 

Review Article

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


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

363-371

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


 

 

Review Article Brittney-Shea Herbert Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and The Indiana University Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
373-391

Treatment planning in endometrial cancer


 

 

Review Article Angiolo Gadducci, Stefania Cosio, Andrea Riccardo Genazzani
393-405

Dendritic cell-mediated immunosuppression in malignant melanoma

 

 

Review Article


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