Journal Articles
Review
Cisplatin and platinum drugs at the molecular level (Review)
Teni Boulikas, Maria Vougiouka
Pages: 1663-1682 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Review
Intervention efficacy and malignant transformation to oral cancer among patients with leukoplakia (Review)
Ming-Neng Shiu, Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen
Pages: 1683-1692 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Review
Carcinogenetic process in gallbladder mucosa with pancreaticobiliary maljunction (Review)
Akihiko Tsuchida, Takao Itoi, Tatsuya Aoki, Yasuhisa Koyanagi
Pages: 1693-1699 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
The usefulness of 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT in monitoring the response to chemotherapy in lung cancer patients
Angela Spanu, Francesco Ginesu, Pietro Pirina, Orazio Schillaci, Antonio Farris, Francesca Chessa, Giordano Madeddu, Antonio Falchi, Giuseppe Madeddu
Pages: 1701-1707 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Establishment of patient-like SCID mouse model by orthotopically implanting primary cultured cells from surgically-resected lung cancer tissues
Haruhiko Fujino, Kazuya Kondo, Takanori Miyoshi, Hisashi Ishikura, Yuji Takahashi, Naruhiko Sawada, Yukiko Hirose, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Taeko Nagao, Shoji Sakiyama, Yasumasa Monden
Pages: 1709-1715 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Expression of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN is not altered in the progression of ovarian carcinomas and does not correlate with p27Kip1 expression
Thomas Schöndorf, Markus Hoopmann, Barbara Eversheim, Markus M. Valter, Martina Becker, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Uwe-Jochen Göhring, Tanja Kübler, Rita K. Schmutzler, Robert Schäfer
Pages: 1717-1722 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Direct effects of octreotide, galanin and serotonin on human colon cancer cells
Magdy El-Salhy, Anna Starefeldt
Pages: 1723-1728 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
A comparison between electrocautery and scalpel plus scissor in breast conserving surgery
Daigo Yamamoto, Masanori Yamada, Homa Okugawa, Yasunori Yonekura, Kanji Tanaka
Pages: 1729-1732 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Telomere stability correlates with longevity of human beings exposed to ionizing radiations
Girdhar G. Sharma, Eric J. Hall, Sonu Dhar, Arun Gupta, Pulivarthi H. Rao, Tej K. Pandita
Pages: 1733-1736 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Mutational analysis of the ST7 gene in human myeloid tumor cell lines
Karnan Sivasundaram, Hiroko Suzuki, Masao Seto, Yoshitaka Hosokawa
Pages: 1737-1739 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Proliferative, infiltrative, and metastatic activities in colorectal tumors assessed by MIB-1 antibody
Hideki Ishida, Sotaro Sadahiro, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Kenji Ishikawa, Akemi Kamijo, Tomoo Tajima, Hiroyasu Makuuchi, Chieko Murayama
Pages: 1741-1745 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Vascular endothelial growth factor C expression correlates with lymphatic involvement and poor prognosis in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Yasue Kimura, Masayuki Watanabe, Takefumi Ohga, Hiroshi Saeki, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Hideo Baba, Yoshihiko Maehara
Pages: 1747-1751 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Selection criteria for high risk and low risk groups of recurrence and metastasis in patients with primary colorectal cancer
Masaya Mukai, Shinkichi Sato, Tomomi Nishida, Nobukazu Komatsu, Kazuaki Shiba, Hisao Nakasaki, Hiroyasu Makuuchi
Pages: 1753-1758 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Alpha-2,6-sialylation of L-PHA reactive oligosaccharides and expression of N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase V in human diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Osamu Suzuki, Yoshihiro Nozawa, Takanori Kawaguchi, Masafumi Abe
Pages: 1759-1764 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Study of cancer gene therapy using IL-12-secreting endothelial progenitor cells in a rat solid tumor model
Mariko Muta, Gaku Matsumoto, Kiyoshi Hiruma, Emi Nakashima, Masakazu Toi
Pages: 1765-1769 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Expression of cell cycle/growth regulator genes in human hepatocellular carcinoma and adjacent normal liver tissues
Lian-Xin Liu, Hong-Chi Jiang, Zhi-Hua Liu, An-Long Zhu, Wei-Hui Zhang, Lin-Feng Wu, Jing Zhou, Xiu-Qin Wang, Min Wu
Pages: 1771-1775 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Heat shock protein 105 is overexpressed in a variety of human tumors
Mikio Kai, Tetsuya Nakatsura, Hiroshi Egami, Satoru Senju, Yasuharu Nishimura, Michio Ogawa
Pages: 1777-1782 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Maspin in thyroid cancer: its relationship with p53 and clinical outcome
Carsten Boltze, Regine Schneider-Stock, Frank Meyer, Brigitte Peters, Claudia Quednow, Cuong Hoang-Vu, Albert Roessner
Pages: 1783-1787 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Complex chromosomal rearrangements in a secondary acute myeloblastic leukemia after chemotherapy in TRAPS
Anita Heller, Vladimir Trifonov, Nikolai Rubtsov, Axel Sauerbrey, Heike Starke, Ivan F. Loncarevic, Uwe Claussen, Thomas Liehr
Pages: 1789-1792 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Intraperitoneal treatment using Taxol is effective for experimental peritoneal carcinomatosis in a rat model
Arndt Hribaschek, Karsten Ridwelski, Matthias Pross, Frank Meyer, Roger Kuhn, Walter Halangk, Carsten Boltze, Hans Lippert
Pages: 1793-1798 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Cyclooxygenase-2 expression in lymph node metastasis of cervical and vulvar cancer
Gabriella Ferrandina, Franco Oreste Ranelletti, Libero Lauriola, Gian Franco Zannoni, Francesco Legge, Marco Gessi, Vanda Salutari, Giovanni Scambia
Pages: 1799-1804 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Pentoxifylline promotes development of murine colon adenocarcinoma-derived metastatic tumors in liver
Tomasz Grzela, Maciej Lazarczyk, Justyna Niderla, Jakub Golab, Marta Alicja Lazarczyk, Piotr Skopinski
Pages: 1805-1809 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Tumor-derived aberrant methylation in plasma of invasive ductal breast cancer patients: Clinical implications
Xi-Chun Hu, Ivy H.N. Wong, Louis W.C. Chow
Pages: 1811-1815 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Paclitaxel and liposomal doxorubicin (Caelyx) combination in advanced breast cancer patients: a Phase II study
Sotiris K. Rigatos, Dimitrios Tsavdaridis, Athanasios Athanasiadis, John G. Stathopoulos, George P. Stathopoulos
Pages: 1817-1819 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Repeated hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy using an implanted port system in patients with unresectable malignant liver neoplasms: Significant factors affecting early hepatic arterial occlusion
Ayumi Hamada, Koichiro Yamakado, Atsuhiro Nakatsuka, Naoshi Tanaka, Kan Takeda
Pages: 1821-1827 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Genetic polymorphisms of CYP1A1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 genes and lung cancer risk
Ioanna A. Dialyna, Spiros Miyakis, Niki Georgatou, Demetrios A. Spandidos
Pages: 1829-1835 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Somatic mutation in mitochondrial DNA and nuclear microsatellite instability in gastric cancer
Toru Hiyama, Shinji Tanaka, Hideyuki Shima, Kazuhiro Kose, Handan Tuncel, Masanori Ito, Yasuhiko Kitadai, Masaharu Sumii, Masaharu Yoshihara, Fumio Shimamoto, Ken Haruma, Kazuaki Chayama
Pages: 1837-1841 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Role of tumor-associated macrophages in renal cell carcinoma
Shinichi Ikemoto, Naomasa Yoshida, Keisuke Narita, Seiji Wada, Taketoshi Kishimoto, Kazunobu Sugimura, Tatsuya Nakatani
Pages: 1843-1849 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Induction of tumor cell death by high hydrostatic pressure as a novel supporting technique in orthopedic surgery
Peter Diehl, Manfred Schmitt, Gerrit Blümelhuber, Benjamin Frey, Susanne Van Laak, Steffen Fischer, Bernd Muehlenweg, Roland Meyer-Pittroff, Hans Gollwitzer, Wolfram Mittelmeier
Pages: 1851-1855 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Alteration in the metastatic potential of ovarian cancer cells by transfection of the antisense gene of β-1,4-galactosyltransferase
Hiroshi Yamashita, Kaneyuki Kubushiro, Jun Ma, Takuma Fujii, Katsumi Tsukazaki, Masao Iwamori, Shiro Nozawa
Pages: 1857-1862 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Amphoterin induction in prostatic stromal cells by androgen deprivation is associated with metastatic prostate cancer
Hiroki Kuniyasu, Yoshitomo Chihara, Hideaki Kondo, Hitoshi Ohmori, Rinzo Ukai
Pages: 1863-1868 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
The inhibition of growth and angiogenesis in heterotransplanted esophageal carcinoma via intratumoral injection of arsenic trioxide
Zhong-Ying Shen, Jian Shen, Ming-Hua Chen, Xian-Ying Wu, Min-Hua Wu, Yi Zeng
Pages: 1869-1874 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Evaluation of CD44 variant 6 expression and clinicopathological factors in pulmonary metastases from colon carcinoma
Marileda Indinnimeo, Claudia Cicchini, Enrico Giarnieri, Alessandro Stazi, Pietro Luigi Mingazzini, Vincenzo Stipa
Pages: 1875-1877 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Bone marrow micrometastasis detected by RT-PCR in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Shoji Natsugoe, Saburo Nakashima, Akihiro Nakajo, Masataka Matsumoto, Hiroshi Okumura, Koki Tokuda, Futoshi Miyazono, Fumio Kijima, Kuniaki Aridome, Sumiya Ishigami, Sonshin Takao, Takashi Aikou
Pages: 1879-1883 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Independent action of serine/threonine protein phosphatase in ovarian cancer plasma membrane and cytosol during gonadotropin-releasing hormone stimulation
Michiyo Sugiyama, Atsushi Imai, Tatsuro Furui, Teruhiko Tamaya
Pages: 1885-1889 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Protein and gene expression of tumor-associated antigen RCAS1 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Masahide Ikeguchi, Shotaro Ohoro, Yoshihiko Maeda, Ken-Ichi Yamaguchi, Kenji Fukuda, Hiroyuki Shirai, Akira Kondo, Shun-Ichi Tsujitani, Nobuaki Kaibara
Pages: 1891-1894 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
β-carotene supplementation in patients radically treated for stage I-II head and neck cancer: Results of a randomized trial
Salvatore Toma, Luigina Bonelli, Alberto Sartoris, Eugenio Mira, Antonio Antonelli, Fabio Beatrice, Carlo Giordano, Marco Benazzo, Angelo Caroggio, Andrea Luigi Cavalot, Sergio Gandolfo, Aldo Garozzo, Giovanni Margarino, Guido Schenone, Nicoletta Spadini, Francesco Zibordi, Fabbrizio Balzarini, Italo Serafini, Piero Miani, Giorgio Cortesina
Pages: 1895-1901 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Higher processing rates of Alu-containing sequences in kidney tumors and cell lines with overexpressed Alu-mRNAs
Maya R. Vilà, Carmen Gelpí, Antoni Nicolás, Joan Morote, Simó Schwartz, Simón Schwartz, Anna Meseguer
Pages: 1903-1909 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Tissue harmonic imaging sonography of the axillary lymph nodes: Evaluation of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients
Kei Kubota, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Tohru Nishigawa, Shoji Yoshida
Pages: 1911-1914 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Rituximab in combination with platinum-containing chemotherapy in patients with relapsed or primary refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Ralf Bieker, Torsten Kessler, Wolfgang E. Berdel, Rolf M. Mesters
Pages: 1915-1917 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
CD44 variant exon 6 expressions in colon cancer assessed by quantitative analysis using real time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction
Yoichi Yamada, Naoki Itano, Hisashi Narimatsu, Takashi Kudo, Setsuo Hirohashi, Atsushi Ochiai, Iwai Tohnai, Minoru Ueda, Koji Kimata
Pages: 1919-1924 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Death receptor-dependent and -independent pathways in anticancer drug-induced apoptosis of breast cancer cells
Ryungsa Kim, Kazuaki Tanabe, Manabu Emi, Yoko Uchida, Tetsuya Toge
Pages: 1925-1930 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
The cytotoxicity of hydrophobic bile acids is ameliorated by more hydrophilic bile acids in intestinal cell lines IEC-6 and Caco-2
Yoshio Araki, Akira Andoh, Hiromichi Bamba, Kouhei Yoshikawa, Hisakazu Doi, Yasunobu Komai, Akihiko Higuchi, Yoshihide Fujiyama
Pages: 1931-1936 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Clinical significance in molecular detection of p53 mutation in serum of patients with colorectal carcinoma
Tomohiro Ito, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Reiko Makino, Kazuo Konishi, Toshinori Kurahashi, Hiroaki Ito, Atsushi Katagiri, Miki Kushima, Mitsuo Kusano, Keiji Mitamura, Michio Imawari
Pages: 1937-1942 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Detection of a novel alteration of the Axin gene in various pediatric neoplasms
Jiangyong Miao, Takeshi Kusafuka, Akira Okada
Pages: 1943-1946 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Effects of tumor necrosis factor α in renal cell carcinoma
Shinichi Ikemoto, Keisuke Narita, Naomasa Yoshida, Seiji Wada, Taketoshi Kishimoto, Kazunobu Sugimura, Tatsuya Nakatani
Pages: 1947-1955 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Case Report
Case report: Recurrence of soft tissue MFH in bone due to minute intravenous tumor emboli detected by MRI
Tomoki Nakamura, Katsuyuki Kusuzaki, Masashi Seto, Akihiko Matsumine, Atsumasa Uchida
Pages: 1957-1960 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Effect of retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene expression on chemosensitivity of human osteosarcoma cell lines
Koji Iida, Tsutomu Nobori, Akihiko Matsumine, Akihiko Isaka, Masashi Seto, Taizou Shiraishi, Atsumasa Uchida
Pages: 1961-1965 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
The effect of epidermal growth factor receptor antisense morpholino oligomer on non-small cell lung cancer cell line
Kazuhiro Washio, Motoi Aoe, Shinichi Toyooka, Hiroyuki Mushiake, Kazunori Tsukuda, Nobuyoshi Shimizu
Pages: 1967-1971 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Pituitary stalk metastasis from breast cancer treated with systemic chemotherapy
Yoriko Murata, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Isamu Yokoe, Shinji Kariya, Kazuo Morio, Toshikazu Sasaki, Akihito Nishioka, Shoji Yoshida
Pages: 1973-1975 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
The relative contributions of carboxylesterase and β-glucuronidase in the formation of SN-38 in human colorectal tumours
Peter J. Tobin, Helen M. Dodds, Stephen Clarke, Margaret Schnitzler, Laurent P. Rivory
Pages: 1977-1979 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Evaluation of MUC1 splice variants as prognostic markers in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast
Bernd C. Schmid, Magarethe Rudas, Gerhild Fabjani, Paul Speiser, Klaus Kaserer, Sepp Leodolter, Robert Zeillinger
Pages: 1981-1985 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Genetic and biochemical changes in colorectal carcinoma in relation to morphologic characteristics
Maria Notarnicola, Michele Linsalata, Maria Gabriella Caruso, Maria Lucia Caruso, Donato Altomare, Dionigi Lorusso, Silvana Leo, Alfredo Di Leo
Pages: 1987-1991 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Long-term cryopreservation of peripheral blood stem cells in patients with advanced germ cell tumors using the dump-freezing method at −80°C
Mototsugu Muramaki, Isao Hara, Hideaki Miyake, Yuji Yamada, Hiroshi Okada, Sadao Kamidono
Pages: 1993-1998 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Angiogenesis is continuous with two peaks during azaserine-induced rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma progression: An electron microscopic morphometrical study
Krisztina Nagy, Szilveszter Tóth, Zsolt Pálfia, Gábor Réz
Pages: 1999-2004 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Review
Tumour MHC class I downregulation and immunotherapy (Review)
Jan Bubeník
Pages: 2005-2008 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
In vitro evaluation of chemopreventive agents using cultured human prostate epithelial cells
X. Steven Wan, Zhoazong Zhou, Ann R. Kennedy, Levy Kopelovich
Pages: 2009-2014 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Plasma leptin and colorectal cancer risk: A prospective study in Northern Sweden
Pär Stattin, Richard Palmqvist, Stefan Söderberg, Carine Biessy, Bjarne Ardnor, Göran Hallmans, Rudolf Kaaks, Tommy Olsson
Pages: 2015-2021 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Potentiation of the antiproliferative activity of MKT-077 by loperamide, diltiazem and tamoxifen
Mansoor Abdul, Naseema Hoosein
Pages: 2023-2026 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Aphidicolin decreases ex vivo resistance to cytosine arabinoside in childhood acute leukaemia
Jean M. Sargent, Christine J. Williamson, Isabelle Hubeek, Alena W. Elgie, Colin G. Taylor, Monique L. Den Boer, Godefridus J. Peters, Gertjan L. Kaspers
Pages: 2027-2031 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
P53 mutations as an identification marker for the clonal origin of bladder tumors and its recurrences
Regine Dahse, Daniela Gärtner, Wolfram Werner, Jörg Schubert, Kerstin Junker
Pages: 2033-2037 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Expression of transglutaminases in human breast cancer and their possible clinical significance
Wen G. Jiang, Richard Ablin, Anthony Douglas-Jones, Robert E. Mansel
Pages: 2039-2044 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Sulforaphane and 2-oxohexyl isothiocyanate induce cell growth arrest and apoptosis in L-1210 leukemia and ME-18 melanoma cells
Irena Misiewicz, Katarzyna Skupinska, Teresa Kasprzycka-Guttman
Pages: 2045-2050 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Older age and second skin cancer as prognostic factors in localized malignant melanomas
Baruch Brenner, Sara Borok, Erica Rakowsky, Eyal Fenig, Haim Gutman, Jaqueline Sulkes, Aaron Sulkes, Jacob Schachter
Pages: 2051-2057 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Case Report
Autologous soluble tumor-associated antigens prevent the toxic side effects of cancer chemotherapy and inhibit the progress of tumorigenesis: Case report
Herzl Ben-Hur, Rebekka Zusman, Itshak Zusman
Pages: 2059-2061 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Development of artificial chimerical gene regulatory elements specific for cancer gene therapy
June Ho Shin, Jea Kyu Yi, Young Jin Lee, Ae Li Kim, Mi Ae Park, Sung-Hyun Kim, Heuiran Lee, Chul Geun Kim
Pages: 2063-2069 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Artifactual formation of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine: role of fluorescent light and inhibitors
Jamal M. Arif, Ramesh C. Gupta
Pages: 2071-2074 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Immunohistochemical profile and treatment of uncommon types of thyroid carcinomas
Jacob Shvero, Rumelia Koren, Thomas Shpitzer, Raphael Feinmesser, Karl Segal
Pages: 2075-2078 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Radiotherapy for partially resected spinal ependymomas: A retrospective study of 60 cases
H. Jacobus Gilhuis, Arnoud C. Kappelle, Guus Beute, Pieter Wesseling, André Grotenhuis, Rudolf H. Boerman
Pages: 2079-2082 Published online on: 01 November 2003
Article
Alterations in the activity and expression of serine/threonine protein phosphatases during all trans retinoic acid-induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells
Ulus Ali Sanli, Ruchan Uslu, Bulent Karabulut, Canfeza Sezgin, Nur Selvi, Hikmet Hakan Aydin, Guray Saydam, Erdem Goker, Serdar Bedii Omay
Pages: 2083-2088 Published online on: 01 November 2003
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