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  1. Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death among gynecologic diseases in Western countries. We have previously identified a miR-200-E-cadherin axis that plays an important role in ovarian inclusion cyst form...

    Authors: Junzheng Yang, Yilan Zhou, Shu-Kay Ng, Kuan-Chun Huang, Xiaoyan Ni, Pui-Wah Choi, Kathleen Hasselblatt, Michael G. Muto, William R. Welch, Ross S. Berkowitz and Shu-Wing Ng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:422
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  2. Previous studies have provided limited support to the association between tobacco smoking and lymphomas with weak evidence of a dose-response relationship.

    Authors: Martina Taborelli, Maurizio Montella, Massimo Libra, Rosamaria Tedeschi, Anna Crispo, Maria Grimaldi, Luigino Dal Maso, Diego Serraino and Jerry Polesel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:421
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  3. Relapse in localized Ewing sarcoma patients has been a matter of concern regarding poor prognosis. Therefore, we investigated the impact of local control modality (surgery, surgery plus radiotherapy, and radio...

    Authors: Ricardo G. Becker, Lauro J. Gregianin, Carlos R. Galia, Reynaldo Jesus-Garcia Filho, Eduardo A. Toller, Gerardo Badell, Suely A. Nakagawa, Alexandre David, André M. Baptista, Eduardo S. Yonamime, Osvaldo A. Serafini, Valter Penna, Julie Francine C. Santos and Algemir L. Brunetto
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:420
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  4. Angiogenesis is essential for the progression and metastatic spread of solid tumours. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been linked to poor survival among osteosarcoma patients but th...

    Authors: Marie-Dominique Tabone, Laurence Brugières, Sophie Piperno-Neumann, Marie-Ange Selva, Perrine Marec-Bérard, Hélène Pacquement, Cyril Lervat, Nadège Corradini, Jean-Claude Gentet, Rémy Couderc, Aurélie Chevance, Céline Mahier-Ait Oukhatar, Natacha Entz-Werle, Jean-Yves Blay and Marie-Cecile Le Deley
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:419
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  5. A high rate of glycolysis leading to elevated lactate content has been linked to poor clinical outcomes in patients with head and neck and cervical cancer treated with radiotherapy. Although the biological exp...

    Authors: Eric Leung, Rob A. Cairns, Naz Chaudary, Ravi N. Vellanki, Tuula Kalliomaki, Eduardo H. Moriyama, Hilda Mujcic, Brian C. Wilson, Bradly G. Wouters, Richard Hill and Michael Milosevic
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:418
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  6. CD40 signalling can synergise with chemotherapy in preclinical cancer models, and early clinical studies are promising. We set out to define the immunological changes associated with this therapeutic combinati...

    Authors: Alison M. McDonnell, Alistair Cook, Bruce W. S. Robinson, Richard A. Lake and Anna K. Nowak
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:417
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  7. Class III radical hysterectomy (RH III)_plus pelvic lymphadenectomy is the standard surgery for early stage cervical cancer (CC) patients, the 5 year survival rate is about 90%, but pelvic floor disorders espe...

    Authors: Xiu-Li Sun, Hai-Bo Wang, Zhi-Qi Wang, Ting-ting Cao, Xin Yang, Jing-Song Han, Yang-feng Wu, Kathleen H. Reilly and Jian-Liu Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:416
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  8. Venous thromoboembolism (VTE) is a frequent and burdensome complication of metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the epidemiology of VTE in patients with localized CRC after surgery in curative intent i...

    Authors: Jakob Michael Riedl, Florian Posch, Angelika Bezan, Joanna Szkandera, Maria Anna Smolle, Thomas Winder, Christopher H. Rossmann, Renate Schaberl-Moser, Martin Pichler, Michael Stotz, Herbert Stöger and Armin Gerger
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:415
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  10. Patients undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer have a high risk for postoperative deterioration of lung function and pulmonary complications. This is partly due to one-lung ventilation during thoracotomy. T...

    Authors: Daniel Pfirrmann, Suzan Tug, Oana Brosteanu, Matthias Mehdorn, Martin Busse, Peter P. Grimminger, Florian Lordick, Torben Glatz, Jens Hoeppner, Hauke Lang, Perikles Simon and Ines Gockel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:413
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  11. The anaplastic lymphoma kinase tyrosine kinase inhibitors (ALK-TKIs) have been administered to patients with ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer for a long period of time and show a promising response. How...

    Authors: Qian Zhu, Hao Hu, De-Sheng Weng, Xiao-Fei Zhang, Chang-Long Chen, Zi-Qi Zhou, Yan Tang and Jian-Chuan Xia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:412
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  12. Studies comparing the effect of antiangiogenic agents targeting different angiogenic pathways are sparse. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of properdistatin and sunitinib treatment in a prec...

    Authors: Jon-Vidar Gaustad, Trude G. Simonsen, Lise Mari K. Andersen and Einar K. Rofstad
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:411
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  13. Soft tissue sarcomas are rare entities with over 50 histological subtypes. Liposarcoma (LS) is the most common neoplasm in this group; it is a complex neoplasm that is divided into different histological subty...

    Authors: Carolin Knebel, Ulrich Lenze, Florian Pohlig, Florian Lenze, Norbert Harrasser, Christian Suren, Jonathan Breitenbach, Hans Rechl, Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe and Heinrich M. L. Mühlhofer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:410
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  14. Granulin-epithelin precursor (GEP) is a secretory growth factor, which has been demonstrated to control cancer growth, invasion, drug resistance and immune escape. Our previous studies and others also demonstr...

    Authors: Chi Wai Yip, Ching Yan Lam, Terence C. W. Poon, Tan To Cheung, Phyllis F. Y. Cheung, Sze Wai Fung, Xiao Qi Wang, Idy C.Y. Leung, Linda W. C. Ng, Chung Mau Lo, George S. W. Tsao and Siu Tim Cheung
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:409
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  15. Chemotherapy plus bevacizumab is a standard first-line treatment for unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Different chemotherapy backbones may be chosen, including one to three drugs, based on p...

    Authors: Chiara Cremolini, Federica Marmorino, Fotios Loupakis, Gianluca Masi, Carlotta Antoniotti, Lisa Salvatore, Marta Schirripa, Luca Boni, Vittorina Zagonel, Sara Lonardi, Giuseppe Aprile, Emiliano Tamburini, Vincenzo Ricci, Monica Ronzoni, Filippo Pietrantonio, Chiara Valsuani…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:408
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  16. Ridaforolimus is a mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor that has activity in solid tumors. Paclitaxel and carboplatin have broad antineoplastic activity in many cancers. This phase I trial was conducted to ...

    Authors: Hye Sook Chon, Sokbom Kang, Jae K. Lee, Sachin M. Apte, Mian M. Shahzad, Irene Williams-Elson and Robert M. Wenham
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:407
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  17. The prognostic significance of free cancer cells detected in peritoneal fluid at the time of rectal surgery remains unclear. A substantial number of patients will develop metastatic disease even with successfu...

    Authors: Christian Arstad, Paulo Refinetti, Annette Torgunrud Kristensen, Karl-Erik Giercksky and Per Olaf Ekstrøm
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:406
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  18. Doxorubicin (DXR) hydrochloride (HCl) liposome injection is an important part of the treatment armamentarium for a number of cancers. With growing needs for affordable and effective anticancer treatments, the ...

    Authors: Vinod Burade, Subhas Bhowmick, Kuntal Maiti, Rishit Zalawadia, Harry Ruan and Rajamannar Thennati
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:405
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  19. Inflammation is widely recognized to play an important role in cancer progression, and the peripheral monocyte count has been reported to correlate with the prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. This i...

    Authors: Masatsune Shibutani, Kiyoshi Maeda, Hisashi Nagahara, Tatsunari Fukuoka, Shigetomi Nakao, Shinji Matsutani, Kosei Hirakawa and Masaichi Ohira
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:404
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  21. Primary objective was to describe the proportion of children newly diagnosed with cancer enrolled on a therapeutic clinical trial. Secondary objectives were to describe reasons for non-enrollment and factors a...

    Authors: Jason D. Pole, Randy Barber, Rose-Émilie Bergeron, Anne Sophie Carret, David Dix, Ketan Kulkarni, Emilie Martineau, Alicia Randall, David Stammers, Caron Strahlendorf, Douglas R. Strother, Tony H. Truong and Lillian Sung
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:402
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  22. Neoadjuvant therapy is increasingly the standard of care in the management of locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and junction (AEG). In randomised controlled trials (RCTs), the MAGIC regimen of ...

    Authors: JV Reynolds, SR Preston, B O’Neill, L Baeksgaard, SM Griffin, C Mariette, S Cuffe, M Cunningham, T Crosby, I Parker, K Hofland, G Hanna, LB Svendsen, CL Donohoe, C Muldoon, D O’Toole…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:401
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  23. Head and neck cancer patients undergoing concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) frequently experience loss of muscle mass and reduced functional performance. Positive effects of exercise training are reported fo...

    Authors: Camilla K. Lonkvist, Simon Lønbro, Anders Vinther, Bo Zerahn, Eva Rosenbom, Hanne Primdahl, Pernille Hojman and Julie Gehl
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:400
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  24. Venetoclax (ABT-199), a first-in-class orally bioavailable BCL-2-selective inhibitor, was recently approved by the FDA for use in patients with 17p-deleted chronic lymphocytic leukemia who have received prior ...

    Authors: Stephen K. Tahir, Morey L. Smith, Paul Hessler, Lisa Roberts Rapp, Kenneth B. Idler, Chang H. Park, Joel D. Leverson and Lloyd T. Lam
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:399
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  25. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia have been found to have poorer cancer survival than non-Aboriginal people. However, use of conventional relative survival analyses is limited due to a...

    Authors: Hanna E. Tervonen, Richard Walton, Hui You, Deborah Baker, David Roder, David Currow and Sanchia Aranda
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:398
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  26. The prevalence of brain metastases (BM) from uterine cancer has recently increased because of the improvement of overall survival (OS) of patients with uterine cancer due to its early detection and improved lo...

    Authors: Nakamasa Hayashi, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuzo Hasegawa, Fumi Higuchi, Masamichi Takahashi, Keishi Makino, Masatoshi Takagaki, Jiro Akimoto, Takeshi Okuda, Yoshiko Okita, Koichi Mitsuya, Yasuyuki Hirashima, Yoshitaka Narita and Yoko Nakasu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:397
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  27. Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is an aggressive cancer of the pleural and peritoneal cavities caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos-induced mesotheliomas in wild-type mice have been used extensively as a precl...

    Authors: Sophie Sneddon, Ann-Marie Patch, Ian M. Dick, Stephen Kazakoff, John V. Pearson, Nicola Waddell, Richard J. N. Allcock, Robert A. Holt, Bruce W. S. Robinson and Jenette Creaney
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:396
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  28. CUL4A has been known for its oncogenic properties in various human cancers. However, its role in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) has not been explored.

    Authors: Gong -Kai Huang, Ting-Ting Liu, Shao-Wen Weng, Huey-Ling You, Yu-Ching Wei, Chang-Han Chen, Hock-Liew Eng and Wan-Ting Huang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:395
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  30. With several new therapies becoming available, treatment of metastatic breast cancer (mBC) is evolving. The objective of this study is to describe patient characteristics, treatment patterns and real-world cli...

    Authors: Giovanni Zanotti, Matthias Hunger, Julia J Perkins, Ruslan Horblyuk and Monique Martin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:393
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  31. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are the first line standard of care for treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Accurate response assessment in the setting of antiangiogenic therapies remains suboptimal...

    Authors: Christian Kelly-Morland, Sarah Rudman, Paul Nathan, Susan Mallett, Giovanni Montana, Gary Cook and Vicky Goh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:392
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  32. To explore the prognostic significance of preoperative prognostic nutritional index (PNI) in bladder cancer after radical cystectomy and compare the prognostic ability of inflammation-based indices.

    Authors: Ding Peng, Yan-qing Gong, Han Hao, Zhi-song He, Xue-song Li, Cui-jian Zhang and Li-qun Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:391
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  33. Single-cell mRNA profiling of circulating tumour cells may contribute to a better understanding of the biology of these cells and their role in the metastatic process. In addition, such analyses may reveal new...

    Authors: Morten Lapin, Kjersti Tjensvoll, Satu Oltedal, Milind Javle, Rune Smaaland, Bjørnar Gilje and Oddmund Nordgård
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:390
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  34. In this study, we aimed to develop an objective staging system to determine the degree of nodal metastasis in breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant systemic treatment (NST).

    Authors: Tae-Kyung Yoo, Jung Min Chang, Hee-Chul Shin, Wonshik Han, Dong-Young Noh and Hyeong-Gon Moon
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:389
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  35. Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) acts in the innate immune response to Helicobacter pylori. Interleukin 8 (IL-8) is a potent cytokine produced by gastric epithelial cells in response to H. pylori. We aimed to investi...

    Authors: Young Woon Chang, Chi Hyuk Oh, Jung-Wook Kim, Jae Won Lee, Mi Ju Park, Jae-Jun Shim, Chang Kyun Lee, Jae-Young Jang, Seok Ho Dong, Hyo Jong Kim, Sung Soo Kim and Byung-Ho Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:388
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  36. Authors: Charlotte M.C. Oude Ophuis, Lisa B. Koppert, Cécile de Monyé, Carolien H.M. van Deurzen, Senada Koljenović, Alexander C.J. van Akkooi, Cornelis Verhoef and Dirk J. Grünhagen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:387
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:258

  37. Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a deadly cancer mainly caused by previous exposure to asbestos. With a latency period up to 50 years the incidence of MM is still increasing, even in countries that banned asbest...

    Authors: Georg Johnen, Katarzyna Gawrych, Irina Raiko, Swaantje Casjens, Beate Pesch, Daniel G. Weber, Dirk Taeger, Martin Lehnert, Jens Kollmeier, Torsten Bauer, Arthur W. Musk, Bruce W. S. Robinson, Thomas Brüning and Jenette Creaney
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:386
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  38. International standards prioritize introducing routine emotional distress screening in cancer care to accurately identify patients who most need psycho-oncological treatment, and ensure that patients can acces...

    Authors: Diana Zwahlen, Theresa Tondorf, Sacha Rothschild, Michael T. Koller, Christoph Rochlitz and Alexander Kiss
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:385
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Gastric adenocarcinoma is the third most common cause of cancer-associated death worldwide. Helicobacter pylori infection activates a signaling cascade that induces production of cytokines and chemokines involved...

    Authors: Norma Sánchez-Zauco, Javier Torres, Alejandro Gómez, Margarita Camorlinga-Ponce, Leopoldo Muñoz-Pérez, Roberto Herrera-Goepfert, Rafael Medrano-Guzmán, Silvia Giono-Cerezo and Carmen Maldonado-Bernal
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:384
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:669

  40. Ewing sarcoma is an aggressive, highly metastatic primary bone and soft tissue tumor most frequently occurring in the bone of young adolescents. Patients, especially those diagnosed with a metastatic disease, ...

    Authors: Laurens G. L. Sand, Tessa Buckle, Fijs W. B. van Leeuwen, Willem E. Corver, Alwine B. Kruisselbrink, Aart G. Jochemsen, Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn and Károly Szuhai
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:383
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  41. Glyoxalase 1 is a key enzyme in the detoxification of reactive metabolites such as methylglyoxal and induced Glyoxalase 1 expression has been demonstrated for several human malignancies. However, the regulatio...

    Authors: Nele Kreycy, Christiane Gotzian, Thomas Fleming, Christa Flechtenmacher, Niels Grabe, Peter Plinkert, Jochen Hess and Karim Zaoui
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:382
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  42. Patients with tongue cancer frequently show loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene. However, expression of VHL protein (pVHL) in tongue cancer has rarely been investigat...

    Authors: Hisashi Hasegawa, Yoshiaki Kusumi, Takeshi Asakawa, Miyoko Maeda, Toshinori Oinuma, Tohru Furusaka, Takeshi Oshima and Mariko Esumi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:381
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  43. Increasing evidence indicates that abnormal expression of GABPA is associated with tumor development and progression. However, the function and clinicopathological significance of GABPA in hepatocellular carci...

    Authors: Sheng Zhang, Kang Zhang, Piyou Ji, Xuqing Zheng, Jianbin Jin, Min Feng and Pingguo Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:380
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  44. The role of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has increasingly been called into question among patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes. Two recent trials have failed to show a survival difference in se...

    Authors: Jana de Boniface, Jan Frisell, Yvette Andersson, Leif Bergkvist, Johan Ahlgren, Lisa Rydén, Roger Olofsson Bagge, Malin Sund, Hemming Johansson and Dan Lundstedt
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:379
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  45. Penetration of the mammary gland basement membrane by cancer cells is a crucial first step in tumor invasion. Using a mouse model of ductal carcinoma in situ, we previously found that inhibition of peptidylarg...

    Authors: Sachi Horibata, Katherine E. Rogers, David Sadegh, Lynne J. Anguish, John L. McElwee, Pragya Shah, Paul R. Thompson and Scott A. Coonrod
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:378
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  46. The role of irinotecan for elderly patients with LD-SCLC has been unclear, and the timing of TRT combined with chemotherapy has not been fully evaluated.

    Authors: Yuki Misumi, Hiroaki Okamoto, Jiichiro Sasaki, Noriyuki Masuda, Mari Ishii, Tsuneo Shimokawa, Yukio Hosomi, Yusuke Okuma, Makoto Nagamata, Takashi Ogura, Terufumi Kato, Masafumi Sata, Sakiko Otani, Akira Takakura, Koichi Minato, Yosuke Miura…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:377
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  47. In view of the fact that JS-K might regulate ubiquitin E3 ligase and that ubiquitin E3 ligase plays an important role in the mechanism of CRPC formation, the goal was to investigate the probable mechanism by w...

    Authors: Guobin Tan, Mingning Qiu, Lieqian Chen, Sai Zhang, Longzhi Ke and Jianjun Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:376
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  48. Prognostic factors aid in the stratification and treatment of cancer. This study evaluated prognostic importance of tumor infiltrating immune cell in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma.

    Authors: Juan Fang, Xiaoxu Li, Da Ma, Xiangqi Liu, Yichen Chen, Yun Wang, Vivian Wai Yan Lui, Juan Xia, Bin Cheng and Zhi Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:375
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  49. Despite the introduction of novel effective treatment regimens like gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel and FOLFIRINOX, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most aggressive epithelial tumors....

    Authors: Sibylle Baechmann, Steffen Ormanns, Michael Haas, Stephan Kruger, Anna Remold, Dominik Paul Modest, Thomas Kirchner, Andreas Jung, Jens Werner, Volker Heinemann and Stefan Boeck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:374
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. The obesity and lipid metabolism were previously proposed to be related with the clinical outcomes of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). We tried to investigate the relationship between preoperative chole...

    Authors: Hakmin Lee, Yong June Kim, Eu Chang Hwang, Seok Ho Kang, Sung-Hoo Hong, Jinsoo Chung, Tae Gyun Kwon, Cheol Kwak, Hyeon Hoe Kim, Jong Jin Oh, Sang Chul Lee, Sung Kyu Hong, Sang Eun Lee and Seok-Soo Byun
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:364
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