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  1. The subtype of claudin-low breast cancer can be reliably determined only by gene-expression profiling. Attempts have been made to develop immunohistochemical surrogates, which nearly always focus on membranous...

    Authors: Anniina Jääskeläinen, Ylermi Soini, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Päivi Auvinen, Kirsi-Maria Haapasaari and Peeter Karihtala
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:223
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  2. Since the first evidence suggesting existence of stem-like cancer cells, the process of cells reprogramming to the stem cell state remains as an attractive tool for cancer stemness research. Current knowledge ...

    Authors: Egle Strainiene, Mindaugas Binkis, Silvija Urnikyte, Vaidotas Stankevicius, Ausra Sasnauskiene, Gabrielis Kundrotas, Andrius Kazlauskas and Kestutis Suziedelis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:222
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  3. Obesity has been proposed as a potential protective factor against lung cancer. We examined the association between BMI and lung cancer risk in a pooled analysis based on nested case-control studies from four ...

    Authors: Harinakshi Sanikini, Jian-Min Yuan, Lesley M. Butler, Woon-Puay Koh, Yu-Tang Gao, Annika Steffen, Mattias Johansson, Paolo Vineis, Gary E. Goodman, Matt J. Barnett, Rayjean J. Hung, Chu Chen and Isabelle Stücker
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:220
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  5. Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) is increasingly applied in patients with multiple brain metastases and is expected to have less adverse effects in cognitive functioning than whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT...

    Authors: Wietske C. M. Schimmel, Eline Verhaak, Patrick E. J. Hanssens, Karin Gehring and Margriet M. Sitskoorn
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:218
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  6. MYCN is amplified in small cell lung cancers and several pediatric tumors, including alveolar rhabdomyosarcomas and neuroblastomas. MYCN protein is known to play a key oncogenic role in both alveolar rhabdomyosar...

    Authors: Eleanor M. O’Brien, Joanna L. Selfe, Ana Sofia Martins, Zoë S. Walters and Janet M. Shipley
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:217
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  7. There is currently limited information regarding the prognostic ability of the dNLR-PNI (the combination of the derived neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio [dNLR] and prognostic nutritional index [PNI]) for hepatoc...

    Authors: Chang Liu, Lei Li, Wu-sheng Lu, Hua Du, Lu-nan Yan, Tian-fu Wen, Wu-ran Wei, Li Jiang and Ming-qing Xu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:216
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  8. The methylation status of oxygen 6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter has been associated with treatment response in glioblastoma(GBM). Using pre-operative MRI techniques to predict MGMT promo...

    Authors: Yu Han, Lin-Feng Yan, Xi-Bin Wang, Ying-Zhi Sun, Xin Zhang, Zhi-Cheng Liu, Hai-Yan Nan, Yu-Chuan Hu, Yang Yang, Jin Zhang, Ying Yu, Qian Sun, Qiang Tian, Bo Hu, Gang Xiao, Wen Wang…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:215
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  9. Patient characteristics and survival outcomes in randomized trials may be different from those in real-life clinical practice. The objective of this study was to describe treatment pathways, safety, drug costs...

    Authors: Rana Maroun, Laura Mitrofan, Laure Benjamin, Gaelle Nachbaur, Franck Maunoury, Philippe Le Jeunne and Isabelle Durand-Zaleski
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:214
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  10. Aberrant crypt foci (ACF) are commonly considered the early pre-cancerous lesions that can progress to colorectal cancer (CRC). The available literature data reveal that age, dietary factors and lifestyle can ...

    Authors: Marek Kowalczyk, Marcin Orłowski, Piotr Siermontowski, Dariusz Mucha, Krzysztof Zinkiewicz, Waldemar Kurpiewski, Ewa Zieliński, Iwona Kowalczyk and Agnieszka Pedrycz
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:213
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  11. Primary hepatic angiosarcoma (PHA) is a rare and aggressive solid tumor, with high rates of local recurrence and distant metastasis, and poor prognosis. There are no established treatment guidelines for PHA.

    Authors: Yu Qiao, Jihong Yang, Lili Liu, Yixin Zeng, Jie Ma, Jing Jia, Li Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Peihong Wu, Wenchao Wang, Dongge Liu, Huan Chen, Yunbo Zhao, Huan Xi and Yao Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:212
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. Survival advantage following trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is variable in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We combined pre-TACE radiologic features to derive a novel prognostic signature...

    Authors: David J. Pinato, Madhava Pai, Isabella Reccia, Markand Patel, Alexandros Giakoustidis, Georgios Karamanakos, Azelea Rushd, Shiraz Jamshaid, Alberto Oldani, Glenda Grossi, Mario Pirisi, Paul Tait and Rohini Sharma
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:211
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  13. Accumulating evidence suggest that autophagy plays a pivotal role in various anticancer therapies, including photodynamic therapy (PDT), acting as a pro-death or pro-survival mechanism in a context-dependent m...

    Authors: Antoni Domagala, Joanna Stachura, Magdalena Gabrysiak, Angelika Muchowicz, Radoslaw Zagozdzon, Jakub Golab and Malgorzata Firczuk
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:210
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  14. Mammography screening is used to detect breast cancer at an early treatable stage, reducing breast cancer mortality. Traditionally, breast cancer has been seen as a disease with only progressive lesions, and h...

    Authors: Åsbjørn Schumacher Westvik, Harald Weedon-Fekjær, Jan Mæhlen and Knut Liestøl
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:209
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  17. Improvements in detection and treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) translate into more men living with PCa, who are therefore potentially at risk of a secondly diagnosed primary tumour (SDPTs). Little is known a...

    Authors: Cecilia Bosco, Hans Garmo, Niklas Hammar, Göran Walldius, Ingmar Jungner, Håkan Malmström, Lars Holmberg and Mieke Van Hemelrijck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:205
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  18. The assessment of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has been shown to enable monitoring of treatment response and early detection of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) recurrence. The aim of this study was to compare...

    Authors: Hanna Huebner, Peter A. Fasching, Walter Gumbrecht, Sebastian Jud, Claudia Rauh, Mark Matzas, Peter Paulicka, Katja Friedrich, Michael P. Lux, Bernhard Volz, Paul Gass, Lothar Häberle, Franziska Meier-Stiegen, Andreas Hartkopf, Hans Neubauer, Katrin Almstedt…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:204
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  19. Recent studies have shown that breast cancer subtype can change from the primary tumour to the recurrence. Discordance between primary and recurrent breast cancer has implications for further treatment and ult...

    Authors: Peter F. McAnena, Andrew McGuire, A. Ramli, C. Curran, C. Malone, R. McLaughlin, K. Barry, James A.L. Brown and M. J. Kerin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:203
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2018 18:282

  20. To evaluate the prevalence of metastatic tumors involving the myocardium and study their presentation in order to increase awareness to their existence.

    Authors: Ivana Burazor, Sarit Aviel-Ronen, Massimo Imazio, Orly Goitein, Marina Perelman, Natalia Shelestovich, Ninoslav Radovanovic, Vladimir Kanjuh, Iris Barshack and Yehuda Adler
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:202
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  21. Though peritoneal carcinomatosis reflects a late stage of colorectal cancer (CRC), only few patients present with synchronous or metachronous liver metastases alongside their peritoneal carcinomatosis. It is h...

    Authors: Sabine Heublein, Markus Albertsmeier, David Pfeifer, Lisa Loehrs, Alexandr V. Bazhin, Thomas Kirchner, Jens Werner, Jens Neumann and Martin Kurt Angele
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:201
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  22. Minichromosome Maintenance family (MCMs), as replication licensing factors, is involved in the pathogenesis of tumors. Here, we investigated the expression of MCMs and their values in hepatocellular carcinoma ...

    Authors: Zhikun Liu, Jie Li, Jun Chen, Qiaonan Shan, Haojiang Dai, Haiyang Xie, Lin Zhou, Xiao Xu and Shusen Zheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:200
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  23. Radiological monitoring of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) using modified RECIST criteria is limited by low sensitivity and inter-observer variability. Serial serum mesothelin measurement has shown utilit...

    Authors: Duneesha de Fonseka, David T. Arnold, Louise Stadon, Anna Morley, Emma Keenan, Michael Darby, Lynne Armstrong, Paul Virgo and Nick A. Maskell
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:199
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  24. Treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the gold standard adjuvant immunotherapy of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), although it fails in one third of the patients. NMIBC expresses two tumor-a...

    Authors: Paulo F. Severino, Mariana Silva, Mylene Carrascal, Nadia Malagolini, Mariella Chiricolo, Giulia Venturi, Roberto Barbaro Forleo, Annalisa Astolfi, Mariangela Catera, Paula A. Videira and Fabio Dall’Olio
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:198
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  25. The aim of the present trial is to investigate a new option of skin protection in order to reduce the rate of grade ≥ 2 skin toxicity in patients receiving radiotherapy alone or radiochemotherapy for locally a...

    Authors: Carlos Narvaez, Claudia Doemer, Christian Idel, Cornelia Setter, Denise Olbrich, Zaza Ujmajuridze, Jesper Hansen Carl and Dirk Rades
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:197
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  27. RECORD-4 assessed everolimus in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) who progressed after 1 prior anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or cytokine and reinforced the clinical benefit ...

    Authors: Lin Yang, Anna Alyasova, Dingwei Ye, Antonia Ridolfi, Luca Dezzani and Robert J. Motzer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:195
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  28. Bladder cancer is the 7th cause of death from cancer in men and 10th in women. Metastatic patients have a poor prognosis with a median overall survival of 14 months. Until recently, vinflunine was the only sec...

    Authors: Marina Pulido, Guilhem Roubaud, Anne-Laure Cazeau, Hakim Mahammedi, Lionel Vedrine, Florence Joly, Loic Mourey, Christian Pfister, Alejandro Goberna, Barbara Lortal, Carine Bellera, Philippe Pourquier and Nadine Houédé
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:194
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  30. Fertility preservation (FP) is a major determinant of quality of life after cancer remission for women who may not have achieved their ideal family size. This article describes the FP services and strategy cur...

    Authors: Kathleen Melan, Frederic Amant, Jacqueline Veronique-Baudin, Clarisse Joachim and Eustase Janky
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:192
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. Lung cancer patients with an activating mutation in the EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) can develop resistance to erlotinib treatment, which is often mediated by the T790M resistance mutation in EGFR. ...

    Authors: Christina Demuth, Anne Tranberg Madsen, Britta Weber, Lin Wu, Peter Meldgaard and Boe Sandahl Sorensen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:191
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  32. Subjects with elevated Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immunoglobulin A (IgA) titers have a higher risk of developing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), indicating that reactivation of EBV in the local mucosa might be i...

    Authors: Yufeng Chen, Yifei Xu, Weilin Zhao, Xue Xiao, Xiaoying Zhou, Longde Lin, Tingting Huang, Jian Liao, Yancheng Li, Xiaoyun Zeng, Guangwu Huang, Weimin Ye and Zhe Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:190
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  33. Physical activity has been implicated as a risk factor in the development of testicular cancer (TC), but the relationship remains controversial. This systematic review pooled available evidence regarding this ...

    Authors: Stephanie Huang, Virginia Signal, Diana Sarfati, Caroline Shaw, James Stanley, Katherine McGlynn and Jason Gurney
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:189
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  34. To evaluate survival data and local tumor control after transarterial chemoembolization in two groups with different embolization protocols for the treatment of HCC patients.

    Authors: Tatjana Gruber-Rouh, Cornelia Schmitt, Nagy N. N. Naguib, N. A. Nour-Eldin, Katrin Eichler, Martin Beeres and Thomas J. Vogl
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:188
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  35. There is now a renewed interest in cancer vaccines. Patients responding to immune checkpoint blockade usually bear tumors that are heavily infiltrated by T cells and express a high load of neoantigens, indicat...

    Authors: Sheeba K. Thomas, Soung-chul Cha, D. Lynne Smith, Kun Hwa Kim, Sapna R. Parshottam, Sheetal Rao, Michael Popescu, Vincent Y. Lee, Sattva S. Neelapu and Larry W. Kwak
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:187
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  36. Recent studies demonstrated the efficacy of S-1-based adjuvant chemotherapy administered for six months after curative surgery for stage III gastric cancer; however, it is unproven whether this type of combina...

    Authors: Tsutomu Namikawa, Hiromichi Maeda, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Koji Oba, Akihito Tsuji, Takaki Yoshikawa, Michiya Kobayashi and Kazuhiro Hanazaki
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:186
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  37. Several efforts have been focused on identification of pathways involved in malignancy, progression, and response to treatment in Glioblastoma (GB). Overexpression of PKCε was detected in histological samples ...

    Authors: Ewa Toton, Aleksandra Romaniuk, Natalia Konieczna, Johann Hofmann, Jan Barciszewski and Maria Rybczynska
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:185
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  38. Chronic inflammatory conditions are associated with higher tumor incidence through epigenetic and genetic alterations. Here, we focused on an association between an inflammation marker, C-reactive-protein (CRP...

    Authors: Masanori Nojima, Motoki Iwasaki, Yoshio Kasuga, Shiro Yokoyama, Hiroshi Onuma, Hideki Nishimura, Ritsu Kusama, Teruhiko Yoshida and Shoichiro Tsugane
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:184
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  39. Local relapse and peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) for pT4 colon cancer is estimated in 15,6% and 36,7% for 12 months and 36 months from surgical resection respectively, achieving a 5 years overall survival of 6...

    Authors: A. Arjona-Sánchez, P. Barrios, E. Boldo-Roda, B. Camps, J. Carrasco-Campos, V. Concepción Martín, A. García-Fadrique, A. Gutiérrez-Calvo, R. Morales, G. Ortega-Pérez, E. Pérez-Viejo, A. Prada-Villaverde, J. Torres-Melero, E. Vicente, P. Villarejo-Campos, J. M. Sánchez-Hidalgo…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:183
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  40. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous group of hematopoietic malignancies due to sophisticated genetic mutations and epigenetic dysregulation. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNAs, ar...

    Authors: Laixi Bi, Bin Zhou, Haiying Li, Licai He, Chunjing Wang, Zhonggai Wang, Liqing Zhu, Mengqian Chen and Shenmeng Gao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:182
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  42. While a range of common genetic variants have been identified to be associated with risk of sporadic breast cancer in several Western studies, little is known about their role in South Asian populations. Our o...

    Authors: Nirmala Dushyanthi Sirisena, Adebowale Adeyemo, Anchala I. Kuruppu, Nilaksha Neththikumara, Nilakshi Samaranayake and Vajira H. W. Dissanayake
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:180
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    The Data note to this article has been published in BMC Research Notes 2019 12:435

  44. Patients with advanced lung cancer (LC) or malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) exhibit limitation of exercise capacities and alteration of quality of life (QoL) induced by cancer and its treatment. Few studie...

    Authors: Cecile Olivier, Jean-Marie Grosbois, Alexis B. Cortot, Sophie Peres, Christophe Heron, Julie Delourme, Marianne Gierczynski, Anne Hoorelbeke, Arnaud Scherpereel and Olivier Le Rouzic
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:178
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  45. Serious neurological adverse events (NAE) have occurred during treatment with high-dose thiotepa regimens of children with high-risk solid tumours. The objective was to assess the incidence of NAE related to h...

    Authors: Christophe Maritaz, Francois Lemare, Agnes Laplanche, Sylvie Demirdjian, Dominique Valteau-Couanet and Christelle Dufour
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:177
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  46. The clinical utility and prognostic impact of presumed primary breast or ovarian cancer among patients with an unfavorable subset of cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate t...

    Authors: Makoto Kodaira, Kan Yonemori, Tatsunori Shimoi, Akihiko Yoshida, Masayuki Yoshida, Atsuko Kitano, Akihiko Shimomura, Mayu Yunokawa, Chikako Shimizu, Yuichi Takiguchi, Yasuhiro Fujiwara and Kenji Tamura
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:176
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  47. Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1 (NBS1), as a key protein in the DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) repair pathway, plays an important role in maintaining genomic stability. Although single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP...

    Authors: Xinmei Hu, Juan Liao, Huiliu Zhao, Feng Chen, Xuefeng Zhu, Jiangheng Li and Qingqing Nong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:175
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  48. Tumor heterogeneity in breast cancer tumors is today widely recognized. Most of the available knowledge in genetic variation however, relates to the primary tumor while metastatic lesions are much less studied...

    Authors: Una Kjällquist, Rikard Erlandsson, Nicholas P. Tobin, Amjad Alkodsi, Ikram Ullah, Gustav Stålhammar, Eva Karlsson, Thomas Hatschek, Johan Hartman, Sten Linnarsson and Jonas Bergh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:174
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  49. Brain metastases from gastric cancer are difficult to treat and their prognosis is poor. Despite various possible treatments, the survival rate of such patients is still unsatisfactory; therefore, new treatmen...

    Authors: Min-joo Ahn, Kanghan Lee, Kyung Hwa Lee, Jin Woong Kim, In-Young Kim and Woo Kyun Bae
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:173
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. The optimal first-line chemotherapy for ovarian carcinosarcoma has not yet been determined. We therefore sought to determine the progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for patients with ovar...

    Authors: Melissa Brackmann, Marina Stasenko, Shitanshu Uppal, Jake Erba, R. Kevin Reynolds and Karen McLean
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2018 18:172
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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