Journal Articles

Review

Role of telomerase in radiocurability (Review)

Tej K. Pandita, Joseph L. Roti Roti

Pages: 263-270 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Reduction of dihydrodiol dehydrogenase expression in resected hepatocellular carcinoma

Mei-Due Yang, Cheng-Chung Wu, Shiow-Her Chiou, Chang-Fang Chiu, Tze-Yi Lin, I-Ping Chiang, Kuan-Chih Chow

Pages: 271-276 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Comparative analysis of K-ras point mutation, telomerase activity, and p53 overexpression in pancreatic tumours

Kenichiro Uemura, Eiso Hiyama, Yoshiaki Murakami, Tetsuya Kanehiro, Hiroki Ohge, Taijiro Sueda, Takashi Yokoyama

Pages: 277-283 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Expression of bcl-2 in oral squamous cell carcinoma: An immunohistochemical study of 90 cases with clinico-pathological correlations

L. Lo Muzio, M. D. Mignogna, G. Pannone, C. Rubini, R. Grassi, P. F. Nocini, F. Ferrari, R. Serpico, G. Favia, G. De Rosa, E. Maiorano

Pages: 285-291 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

VBP-1 is necessary for morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Harumi Ichimiya, Okio Hino, Yuji Kohara, Naoaki Ishii

Pages: 293-295 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Cyanidin 3-O-β-D-glucoside isolated from skin of black Glycine max and other anthocyanins isolated from skin of red grape induce apoptosis in human lymphoid leukemia Molt 4B cells

Hirotaka Katsuzaki, Hiroshige Hibasami, Shinji Ohwaki, Kengo Ishikawa, Kunio Imai, Kumiko Date, Yukinobu Kimura, Takashi Komiya

Pages: 297-300 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Papillary renal cell carcinoma in a young adult: serial changes in diagnostic images

Tatsuya Nakatani, Hiroyuki Iwata, Masato Kamizuru, Katsuyuki Kuratsukuri, Toshihide Naganuma, Kazunobu Sugimura

Pages: 301-303 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Expression of a novel splicing variant deleting exons 4 and 6 of the progesterone receptor gene is a rare event in breast cancer

Kumi Nagao, Norio Kohno, Kazuyuki Wakita, Kazumasa Hikiji, Shigeki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Hirata, Hisashi Hisatomi

Pages: 305-308 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Prognostic significance of CD8+ T cell and macrophage peritumoral infiltration in colorectal cancer

Yukihiro Funada, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Ryuichi Kikuchi, Shinsuke Takeno, Yuzo Uchida, Helmut E. Gabbert

Pages: 309-313 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Sentinel lymph node navigation surgery for pancreatic head cancers

Tetsuo Ohta, Hirohisa Kitagawa, Masato Kayahara, Shin-Ichi Kinami, Itasu Ninomiya, Sachio Fushida, Takashi Fujimura, Gen-Ichi Nishimura, Koichi Shimizu, Shuangqin Yi, Koichi Miwa

Pages: 315-319 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 expression in laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas and its prognostic implications

Youyi Dong, Li Sui, Yasuo Watanabe, Katsuyoshi Sugimoto, Masaaki Tokuda

Pages: 321-325 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Immunohistochemical analysis of transforming growth factor β in gallbladder cancer

Keiichi Kitamura, Kazuhiko Kasuya, Akihiko Tsuchida, Akihiro Mimuro, Keiichiro Inoue, Toshiaki Aoki, Tatsuya Aoki, Yasuhisa Koyanagi

Pages: 327-332 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Histone H4 acetylation and histone deacetylase 1 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Yasushi Toh, Manabu Yamamoto, Kazuya Endo, Yasuharu Ikeda, Hideo Baba, Shunji Kohnoe, Hirotoshi Yonemasu, Yoichi Hachitanda, Takeshi Okamura, Keizo Sugimachi

Pages: 333-338 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Immunohistochemical analysis of cyclooxygenase-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor in pancreaticobiliary maljunction

Akihiko Tsuchida, Yuichi Nagakawa, Kazuhiko Kasuya, Takao Itoi, Mitsufumi Endo, Takashi Ozawa, Tatsuya Aoki, Yasuhisa Koyanagi

Pages: 339-343 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Expression of matrix metalloproteinases in human transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder

Toshiyuki Sumi, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Yoji Hyun, Tomoyo Yasui, Yoshinari Matsumoto, Kanae Hattori, Kazunobu Sugimura, Hidenori Kawashima, Tatsuya Nakatani, Osamu Ishiko

Pages: 345-349 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Identification of markers of possible prognostic value in 57 giant cell tumors of bone

Gabriella Gamberi, Massimo Serra, Paola Ragazzini, Giovanna Magagnoli, Laura Pazzaglia, Francesca Ponticelli, Cristina Ferrari, Manuela Zanasi, Franco Bertoni, Piero Picci, M. Serena Benassi

Pages: 351-356 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Real-Time RT-PCR of tyrosine hydroxylase to detect bone marrow involvement in advanced neuroblastoma

Andrea Pession, Virginia Libri, Roberta Sartini, Rosa Conforti, Elisabetta Magrini, Livia Bernardi, Raffaele Fronza, Eleonora Olivotto, Arcangelo Prete, Roberto Tonelli, Guido Paolucci

Pages: 357-362 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Effect of the number of uninvolved nodes on survival in early breast cancer

Vincent Vinh-Hung, Gàbor Cserni, Tomasz Burzykowski, Jan Van De Steene, Mia Voordeckers, Guy Storme

Pages: 363-368 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Prognostic value of Bak expression in oral tongue squamous cell carcinomas

Xin Xie, Ole Petter F. Clausen, Morten Boysen

Pages: 369-374 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

A water-soluble extract from cultured medium of Ganoderma lucidum (Rei-shi) mycelia suppresses azoxymethane-induction of colon cancers in male F344 rats

Huimei Lu, Eikai Kyo, Toshihiro Uesaka, Osamu Katoh, Hiromitsu Watanabe

Pages: 375-379 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Preoperative combination chemotherapy with S-1 and low dose cisplatin against highly advanced gastric carcinoma

Yoshiro Saikawa, Yoshikiyo Akasaka, Toshio Kanai, Yoshihide Otani, Koichiro Kumai, Tetsuro Kubota, Masaki Kitajima

Pages: 381-386 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

A new thin-type bronchoscope improves diagnostic accuracy of peripheral pulmonary carcinoma

Akira Iyoda, Makoto Suzuki, Masako Chiyo, Yasumitsu Moriya, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Yasuo Sekine, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toshihiko Iizasa, Yukio Saitoh, Kenzo Hiroshima, Masayuki Baba, Takehiko Fujisawa

Pages: 387-389 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

The preventive effect of antineoplaston AS2-1 on HCC recurrence

Hideaki Tsuda, Michio Sata, Tutomu Kumabe, Masafumi Uchida, Hiroshi Hara

Pages: 391-397 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

External beam radiotherapy in bone metastatic prostate cancer: Impact on patients' pain relief and quality of life

Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Riccardo Autorino, Fortunato Ciardiello, David Raben, Cataldo Bianco, Teresa Troiani, Carmine Pizza, Michele De Laurentiis, Matilde Pensabene, Massimo D'Armiento, A. Raffaele Bianco, Sabino De Placido

Pages: 399-404 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Expression of tetraspanin adaptor proteins below defined threshold values is associated with in vitro invasiveness of mammary carcinoma cells

Georg Sauer, Christian Kurzeder, Regina Grundmann, Rolf Kreienberg, Robert Zeillinger, Helmut Deissler

Pages: 405-410 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Increased serum midkine concentration as a possible tumor marker in patients with superficial esophageal cancer

Hideaki Shimada, Yoshihiro Nabeya, Shin-Ichi Okazumi, Hisahiro Matsubara, Kenji Kadomatsu, Takashi Muramatsu, Shinya Ikematsu, Sadatoshi Sakuma, Takenori Ochiai

Pages: 411-414 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Thermoradiotherapy combined with adenoviral p53 gene therapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines

Yuzuru Higuchi, Jun-Ichi Asaumi, Jun Murakami, Hidenobu Matsuzaki, Toru Wakasa, Tetsuyoshi Inoue, Hironobu Konoucni, Miki Hisatomi, Yoshinobu Yanagi, Yasutoshi Honda, Hiroshi Shigehara, Kanji Kishi

Pages: 415-420 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Promotion effects of hot water on N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine-induced esophageal tumorigenesis in F344 rats

Zhi Gang Li, Yutaka Shimada, Fumiaki Sato, Masato Maeda, Atsushi Itami, Junichi Kaganoi, Izumi Komoto, Atsushi Kawabe, Masayuki Imamura

Pages: 421-426 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Immunohistological study of cell cycle-related factors, oncogene expression, and cell proliferation in adenocarcinoma developed in Barrett's esophagus

Teruhiko Fujii, Shino Nakagawa, Mai Hanzawa, Susumu Sueyoshi, Hiromasa Fujita, Kazuo Shirouzu, Hideaki Yamana

Pages: 427-431 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with CDDP and 5-fluorouracil for gastric cancer with serosal invasion

Nobuhiro Takiguchi, Masao Nunomura, Keiji Koda, Kenji Oda, Hirofumi Suzuki, Masaru Miyazaki

Pages: 433-438 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Clinicopathologic characteristics related to the high variability of coding mononucleotide repeat sequences in tumors with high-microsatellite instability

Kyung Young Chung, Nam-Gyun Kim, Long Shan Li, Haeryoung Kim, Hyunki Kim, Chung Mo Nam, Hoguen Kim, Dong-Hwan Shin

Pages: 439-444 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Co-expression of receptor for advanced glycation end products and the ligand amphoterin associates closely with metastasis of colorectal cancer

Hiroki Kuniyasu, Yoshitomo Chihara, Tadateru Takahashi

Pages: 445-448 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Review

Epidemiology and pathogenesis of esophageal cancer: Management and its controversial results (Review)

G. P. Stathopoulos, N. Tsiaras

Pages: 449-454 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Pin1 is overexpressed in oral squamous cell carcinoma and its levels correlate with cyclin D1 overexpression

Hitoshi Miyashita, Shiro Mori, Katutoshi Motegi, Manabu Fukumoto, Takafumi Uchida

Pages: 455-461 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Determinants of the interval between diagnosis and treatment in patients with digestive tract cancer

M. Mariscal, J. Llorca, D. Prieto-Salceda, S. Palma, M. Delgado-Rodríguez

Pages: 463-467 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Resistance to cytotoxic chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells is associated with intracellular clusterin expression

Hideaki Miyake, Isao Hara, Sadao Kamidono, Martin E. Gleave, Hiroshi Eto

Pages: 469-473 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Evaluation of different markers in non-small cell lung cancer: Prognostic value of clinical staging, tumour cell detection and tumour marker analysis for tumour progression and overall survival

Sabine Kasimir-Bauer, Norbert Schleucher, Rainer Weber, Rainer Neumann, Siegfried Seeber

Pages: 475-482 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Glutathione S-transferase M1 associated with cancer occurrence in Korean HNPCC families carrying the hMLH1/hMSH2 mutation

Joo-Ho Shin, Ja-Lok Ku, Ki-Hyuk Shin, Young-Kyoung Shin, Sung-Bum Kang, Jae-Gahb Park

Pages: 483-486 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Low frequency of human polyomavirus BKV and JCV DNA in urothelial carcinomas of the renal pelvis and renal cell carcinomas

Antje Knöll, Robert Stoehr, Wolfgang Jilg, Arndt Hartmann

Pages: 487-491 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Meizothrombin, an intermediate of prothrombin cleavage potently activates renal carcinoma cells by interaction with PAR-type thrombin receptors

R. Kaufmann, U. Junker, M. Schilli-Westermann, C. Klötzer, J. Scheele, K. Junker

Pages: 493-496 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

β-sitosterol, a plant sterol, induces apoptosis and activates key caspases in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells

Atif B. Awad, Rajat Roy, Carol S. Fink

Pages: 497-500 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Epigenetic control of E-cadherin (CDH1) by CpG methylation in metastasising laryngeal cancer

Pia Azarschab, Agnieszka Stembalska, Mirela Baus Loncar, Markus Pfister, Maria M. Sasiadek, Nikolaus Blin

Pages: 501-503 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Article

Ultrasonographic detection of regional lymph node metastases in patients with intermediate or thick malignant melanoma

Elias N. Brountzos, Irene E. Panagiotou, Dimitrios I. Bafaloukos, Dimitrios A. Kelekis

Pages: 505-510 Published online on: 01 March 2003
Journal Cover

March-April 2003
Volume 10 Issue 2

Print ISSN: 1021-335X
Online ISSN: 1791-2431

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