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  1. Adolescent and young adults (AYA) enrolment rates into cancer clinical trials (CCT) are the lowest of any age group globally. As AYA have distinct biological, psychosocial and relational needs, we aimed to exp...

    Authors: Jennifer A.H. Bell, Victoria Forcina, Laura Mitchell, Seline Tam, Kate Wang, Abha A. Gupta and Jeremy Lewin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:629
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Indole-3-carbinol, derived from Cruciferous vegetables is an estrogen receptor antagonist considered a preventive agent that is naturally present in diet. There are no previous studies on its effects in human ...

    Authors: Asunción Martín-Ruiz, Laura Peña, Alfredo González-Gil, Lucía Teresa Díez-Córdova, Sara Cáceres and Juan Carlos Illera
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:626
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  3. Pancreatic cancer is acquiring increasing prominence as a cause of cancer death in the population. The purpose of this study was to analyze long-term pancreatic cancer mortality trends in Spain and evaluate th...

    Authors: Daniel Seoane-Mato, Olivier Nuñez, Nerea Fernández-de-Larrea, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez, Marina Pollán, Gonzalo López-Abente and Nuria Aragonés
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:625
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  4. This study examined the prognostic significance of microtubule-associated protein light chain 3B (LC3B) expression in oropharyngeal and oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The prognostic significance of...

    Authors: Kenneth Lai, Slade Matthews, James S. Wilmott, Murray C. Killingsworth, Jim L. Yong, Nicole J. Caixeiro, James Wykes, Allan Samakeh, Dion Forstner, Mark Lee, John McGuinness, Navin Niles, Angela Hong, Ardalan Ebrahimi and Cheok Soon Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:624
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  5. Currently, young colon cancer (CC) patients continue to increase and represent a heterogeneous patient group. The aim of this study was to explore the optimal minimum lymph node count after CC resection for yo...

    Authors: Xu Guan, Yuliuming Wang, Hanqing Hu, Zhixun Zhao, Zheng Jiang, Zheng Liu, Yinggang Chen, Guiyu Wang and Xishan Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:623
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Metastasis is a complex process which is difficult to study and model. Experimental ingenuity is therefore essential when seeking to elucidate the biological mechanisms involved.

    Authors: Shirley Jean Keeton, Jean Marie Delalande, Mark Cranfield, Alan Burns and Philip Richard Dash
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:622
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  7. It is essential to understand the mechanisms responsible for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression and chemoresistance in order to identify prognostic biomarkers as well as potential therapeutic avenues. ...

    Authors: Lui Ng, Ariel K. M. Chow, Johnny H. W. Man, Thomas C. C. Yau, Timothy M. H. Wan, Deepak N. Iyer, Virginia H. T. Kwan, Ronnie T. P. Poon, Roberta W. C. Pang and Wai-Lun Law
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:621
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are standard treatments for non-small cell lung cancer. Unique cases with paradoxical acceleration of the disease after immunotherapy have been reported. These have been described ...

    Authors: Taro Shinozaki, Eri Iwami, Shinnosuke Ikemura, Tatsu Matsuzaki, Takahiro Nakajima, Kazuhiko Hashimoto and Takeshi Terashima
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:620
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  9. This study was performed to examine the usefulness of combined androgen blockade (CAB) therapy with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist (CAB-antagonist therapy), instead of CAB therapy with GnRH...

    Authors: Takeshi Kashiwabara and Sayo Suda
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:619
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. For the expanding population of bladder cancer survivors in Korea, the development of subsequent cancers is a significant concern. Here, we provide the second primary cancer incidence rates and types in Korean...

    Authors: Whi-An Kwon, Jae Young Joung, Jiwon Lim, Chang-Mo Oh, Kyu-Won Jung, Sung Han Kim, Ho Kyung Seo, Weon Seo Park, Jinsoo Chung, Kang Hyun Lee and Young-Joo Won
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:617
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  12. Earlier epidemiological studies indicate that associations between obesity and breast cancer risk may not only depend on menopausal status and use of exogenous hormones, but might also differ by tumor subtype....

    Authors: Cina J. Nattenmüller, Mark Kriegsmann, Disorn Sookthai, Renée Turzanski Fortner, Annika Steffen, Britta Walter, Theron Johnson, Jutta Kneisel, Verena Katzke, Manuela Bergmann, Hans Peter Sinn, Peter Schirmacher, Esther Herpel, Heiner Boeing, Rudolf Kaaks and Tilman Kühn
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:616
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  13. Emergency presentations (EP) represent over a third of all lung cancer admissions in England. Such presentations usually reflect late stage disease and are associated with poor survival. General practitioners ...

    Authors: Camille Maringe, Nora Pashayan, Francisco Javier Rubio, George Ploubidis, Stephen W. Duffy, Bernard Rachet and Rosalind Raine
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:615
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  16. Prostate Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA) is frequently expressed in prostate cancer but its exact function is unclear.

    Authors: Marie-Christine Heinrich, Cosima Göbel, Martina Kluth, Christian Bernreuther, Charlotte Sauer, Cornelia Schroeder, Christina Möller-Koop, Claudia Hube-Magg, Patrick Lebok, Eike Burandt, Guido Sauter, Ronald Simon, Hartwig Huland, Markus Graefen, Hans Heinzer, Thorsten Schlomm…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:612
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  17. Activation of c-Met, a receptor tyrosine kinase, induces radiation therapy resistance in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The activated residual of c-Met is located in lipid rafts (Duhon et al. Mol Carcinog...

    Authors: Juan Zeng, Heying Zhang, Yonggang Tan, Cheng Sun, Yusi Liang, Jinyang Yu and Huawei Zou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:611
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Gene-expression companion diagnostic tests, such as the Oncotype DX test, assess the risk of early stage Estrogen receptor (ER) positive (+) breast cancers, and guide clinicians in the decision of whether or n...

    Authors: Jon Whitney, German Corredor, Andrew Janowczyk, Shridar Ganesan, Scott Doyle, John Tomaszewski, Michael Feldman, Hannah Gilmore and Anant Madabhushi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:610
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  19. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The disease recurrent rate is relatively high resulted in poor 5-year survival in advanced HCC. Cancer stem cells (...

    Authors: Wei-Chieh Huang, Shiao-Lin Tung, Yao-Li Chen, Po-Ming Chen and Pei-Yi Chu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:609
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  21. Breast cancer (BC) is highly heterogeneous with ~ 60–70% of estrogen receptor positive BC patient’s response to anti-hormone therapy. Estrogen receptors (ERs) play an important role in breast cancer progressio...

    Authors: B. Madhu Krishna, Sanjib Chaudhary, Dipti Ranjan Mishra, Sanoj K. Naik, S. Suklabaidya, A. K. Adhya and Sandip K. Mishra
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:607
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. In the intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) era, great improvement has been made in survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The 7th edition of the International Union against Cancer/American Joint Commi...

    Authors: Xing-Li Yang, Yan Wang, Shao-Bo Liang, Sha-Sha He, Dan-Ming Chen, Hai-Yang Chen, Li-Xia Lu and Yong Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:606
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Aberrant hyperactivation of epithelial proliferation, AKT signaling, and association with unopposed estrogen (E2) exposure is the most common endometrial cancer dysfunction. In the normal uterus, progesterone ...

    Authors: Jung-Yoon Yoo, Hee-Bum Kang, Russell R. Broaddus, John I. Risinger, Kyung-Chul Choi and Tae Hoon Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:605
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  24. Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is considered to be a large challenge for clinicians due to the variable overlaps of symptoms with other severe diseases and a high rate of mortality. Prompt diagnosis...

    Authors: Fei Li, Xiaojie Zhang, Yunyun Wang, Ailin Yang, Zhanglin Zhang, Weiping Tang, Nan Zhong and Huidong Shi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:604
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  26. Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death around the world, where incidence and mortality rates are at a constant increase. Tumourigenic cells are characteristically seen to over-express the 37 kDa/67 ...

    Authors: Leila Vania, Thalia M. Rebelo, Eloise Ferreira and Stefan F. T. Weiss
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:602
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  27. The survival of patients with ovarian cancer has improved because of surgery and chemotherapy. This study aimed to estimate the changes in survival rates among Korean women with ovarian cancer prior to the int...

    Authors: Jung-Yun Lee, Sunghoon Kim, Young Tae Kim, Myong Cheol Lim, Boram Lee, Kyu-Won Jung, Jae Weon Kim, Sang-Yoon Park and Young-Joo Won
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:601
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer and one of the most lethal and prevalent cancers. Aberrant glycosylation was common and essential in tumorigenesis, with fucosylation as one of the mo...

    Authors: Xing Wei, Kun Zhang, Haifeng Qin, Jinlong Zhu, Qiaoxi Qin, Yang Yu and Hong Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:600
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Glioma is the most common primary brain tumor in adults with a poor prognosis. As a member of ARF subfamily GTPase, ARL2 plays a key role in regulating the dynamics of microtubules and mitochondrial functions....

    Authors: Yulin Wang, Gefei Guan, Wen Cheng, Yang Jiang, Fengping Shan, Anhua Wu, Peng Cheng and Zongze Guo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:599
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  30. Erlotinib is approved for the first line treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer. Since the number of prospective studies in Caucasian patients treated...

    Authors: Zsolt Markóczy, Veronika Sárosi, Iveta Kudaba, Gabriella Gálffy, Ülkü Yilmaz Turay, Ahmet Demirkazik, Gunta Purkalne, Attila Somfay, Zsolt Pápai-Székely, Erzsébet Rásó and Gyula Ostoros
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:598
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  31. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the major causes of tumor death; thus, the identification of markers related to its diagnosis and prognosis is critical. Previous studies have revealed that epithelial-...

    Authors: Yuki Shimoda, Yasunari Ubukata, Tadashi Handa, Takehiko Yokobori, Takayoshi Watanabe, Dolgormaa Gantumur, Kei Hagiwara, Takahiro Yamanaka, Mariko Tsukagoshi, Takamichi Igarashi, Akira Watanabe, Norio Kubo, Kenichiro Araki, Norifumi Harimoto, Ayaka Katayama, Toshiaki Hikino…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:597
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Prognosis of pancreatic cancer is poor with a 5-year survival rate of only 7%. Although several new chemotherapy treatments have shown promising results, all patients will eventually progress, and we need to d...

    Authors: Yoshiki Hirooka, Hideki Kasuya, Takuya Ishikawa, Hiroki Kawashima, Eizaburo Ohno, Itzel B. Villalobos, Yoshinori Naoe, Toru Ichinose, Nobuto Koyama, Maki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Kodera and Hidemi Goto
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:596
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  33. Metastatic breast cancer carries a poor prognosis despite the success of newly targeted therapies. Treatment options remain especially limited for the subtype of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). Several s...

    Authors: Carrie D. House, Valentina Grajales, Michelle Ozaki, Elizabeth Jordan, Helmae Wubneh, Danielle C. Kimble, Jana M. James, Marianne K. Kim and Christina M. Annunziata
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:595
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  34. Resistance to preoperative radiotherapy is a major clinical problem in the treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer. The role of NDRG1 in resistance to ionizing radiation in rectal cancer has not been fully e...

    Authors: Soon-Chan Kim, Young-Kyoung Shin, Ye-Ah Kim, Sang-Geun Jang and Ja-Lok Ku
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:594
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  35. Repurposing existing medications for antineoplastic purposes can provide a safe, cost-effective, and efficacious means to further augment available cancer care. Clinical and preclinical studies suggest a role ...

    Authors: Jennifer M. Knight, Stephanie A. Kerswill, Parameswaran Hari, Steve W. Cole, Brent R. Logan, Anita D’Souza, Nirav N. Shah, Mary M. Horowitz, Melinda R. Stolley, Erica K. Sloan, Karen E. Giles, Erin S. Costanzo, Mehdi Hamadani, Saurabh Chhabra, Binod Dhakal and J. Douglas Rizzo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:593
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. There is increasing appreciation that non-cancer cells within the tumour microenvironment influence cancer progression and anti-cancer drug efficacy. For metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), the bone marrow micro...

    Authors: Eman Mosaad, Karen Chambers, Kathryn Futrega, Judith Clements and Michael Robert Doran
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:592
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  37. Knowledge about the expression and thus a role of enzymes that produce endogenous H2S - cystathionine-β-synthase, cystathionine γ-lyase and mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase - in renal tumors is still controvers...

    Authors: Jan Breza Jr, Andrea Soltysova, Sona Hudecova, Adela Penesova, Ivan Szadvari, Petr Babula, Barbora Chovancova, Lubomira Lencesova, Ondrej Pos, Jan Breza, Karol Ondrias and Olga Krizanova
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:591
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The expression alterations of B4GALT1 have been noted in some types of cancer and they are related to cancer cell proliferation, invasiveness, metastasis, and drug resistance. We aimed to establish the express...

    Authors: Huyang Xie, Yu Zhu, Junyu Zhang, Zheng Liu, Hangcheng Fu, Yifan Cao, Gaoxiang Li, Yijun Shen, Bo Dai, Jiejie Xu and Dingwei Ye
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:590
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  40. High Dose Rate Brachytherapy (HDRB) boost is a well-established treatment for prostate cancer (PC). We describe the PROstate Multicentre External beam radioTHErapy Using Stereotactic boost (PROMETHEUS) study. ...

    Authors: Matthew Richardson, Mark Sidhom, Sarah Gallagher, Mel Grand, David Pryor, Joseph Bucci, Lee Wilton, Sankar Arumugam, Sarah Keats and Jarad M. Martin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:588
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  41. Cancer antigen (CA) 125 (CA-125) is used in ovarian cancer detection and monitoring, whose serum level has a positive correlation with tumor stage. The aim of this study was to obtain a prediction metastasis e...

    Authors: Juan Fernando Sánchez Vega, Magdali del Rocío Murillo Bacilio, Adrián Santiago Vintimilla Condoy, Araceli Miroslava Palta González, José Alfredo Crespo Astudillo and Franklin Geovany Mora-Bravo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:587
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. CDCP1, a transmembrane protein with tumor pro-metastatic activity, was recently identified as a prognostic marker in TNBC, the most aggressive breast cancer subtype still lacking an effective molecular targete...

    Authors: Luca Forte, Federica Turdo, Cristina Ghirelli, Piera Aiello, Patrizia Casalini, Marilena Valeria Iorio, Elvira D’Ippolito, Patrizia Gasparini, Roberto Agresti, Beatrice Belmonte, Gabriella Sozzi, Lucia Sfondrini, Elda Tagliabue, Manuela Campiglio and Francesca Bianchi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:586
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Little data exists predicting the resistance to actinomycin D (Act-D) single-agent for gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). The objective was to determine the overall success of pulse Act-D and the facto...

    Authors: Lei Li, Xirun Wan, Fengzhi Feng, Tong Ren, Junjun Yang, Jun Zhao, Fang Jiang and Yang Xiang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:585
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Carbonic anhydrase related proteins (CARPs) VIII, X and XI functionally differ from the other carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzymes. Structurally, they lack the zinc binding residues, which are important for enzyme ...

    Authors: Sini L. Karjalainen, Hannu K. Haapasalo, Ashok Aspatwar, Harlan Barker, Seppo Parkkila and Joonas A. Haapasalo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:584
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The anti-tumor properties of cannabinoids have been investigated in many in vitro and in vivo studies. Many of these anti-tumor effects are mediated via cannabinoid receptor types 1 and 2 (CB1 and CB2), comprisin...

    Authors: Mohammed I. Khan, Anna A. Sobocińska, Klaudia K. Brodaczewska, Katarzyna Zielniok, Malgorzata Gajewska, Claudine Kieda, Anna M. Czarnecka and Cezary Szczylik
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:583
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Patients with cancer develop endothelial dysfunction and subsequently display a higher risk of cardiovascular events. The aim of the present work was to examine changes in nitric oxide (NO)- and prostacyclin (PGI

    Authors: E. Buczek, A. Denslow, L. Mateuszuk, B. Proniewski, T. Wojcik, B. Sitek, A. Fedorowicz, A. Jasztal, E. Kus, A. Chmura- Skirlinska, R. Gurbiel, J. Wietrzyk and S. Chlopicki
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:582
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  47. All known mechanisms of apoptosis induced by resveratrol act through cell cycle arrest and changes in mitochondrial membrane potential. It is currently unknown whether resveratrol-induced apoptosis is associat...

    Authors: Yingying Fan, Jen-Fu Chiu, Jing Liu, Yan Deng, Cheng Xu, Jun Zhang and Guanwu Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:581
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Lung cancer remains the top contributor to cancer-related mortality worldwide. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been reported to participate in normal development and tumorigenesis. LncRNA nuclear enriched ...

    Authors: Wu Zhou, Xing Chen, Qinghua Hu, Xuliang Chen, Yingji Chen and Lingjin Huang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:580
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  49. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) play a critical role in modulating the tumor microenvironment and promote tumor metastases. Our studies have demonstrated that ginsenoside Rh2 (G-Rh2), a monomeric compound ...

    Authors: Honglin Li, Nan Huang, Weikang Zhu, Jianchun Wu, Xiaohui Yang, Wenjing Teng, Jianhui Tian, Zhihong Fang, Yingbin Luo, Min Chen and Yan Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:579
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Lynch syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disease caused by germline mutations in mismatch repair genes. Analysis for microsatellite instability (MSI) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) of protein expressi...

    Authors: Takanori Yokoyama, Kazuhiro Takehara, Nao Sugimoto, Keika Kaneko, Etsuko Fujimoto, Mika Okazawa-Sakai, Shinichi Okame, Yuko Shiroyama, Takashi Yokoyama, Norihiro Teramoto, Shozo Ohsumi, Shinya Saito, Kazuho Imai and Kokichi Sugano
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:576
    Content type: Case report Published on:

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