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  1. Childhood cancer and its treatment have considerable impact on a child's physical and mental wellbeing. Especially long-term administration of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy impairs physical fitness both dur...

    Authors: Katja I Braam, Elisabeth M van Dijk, Margreet A Veening, Marc B Bierings, Johannes HM Merks, Martha A Grootenhuis, Mai JM Chinapaw, Gerben Sinnema, Tim Takken, Jaap Huisman, Gertjan JL Kaspers and Eline van Dulmen-den Broeder
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:624
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. The aim of this population-based study was to assess independent prognostic factors in ovarian cancer using relative survival (RS) and to investigate changes in RS rates from 1982 to 2005.

    Authors: Zeinab Hamidou, Sylvain Causeret, Tienhan S Dabakuyo, Julie Gentil, Laurent Arnould, Patrick Roignot, Thierry Altwegg, Marie-Laure Poillot, Franck Bonnetain and Patrick Arveux
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:622
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Adjuvant chemotherapy has been shown to improve survival rates of postoperative patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Biomarkers could help select an appropriate chemotherapy for NSCLC patients or ...

    Authors: Shi Yan, Jiao Shun-Chang, Chen Li, Li Jie, Lv Ya-Li and Wang Ling-Xiong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:621
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. The largest burden of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lies in Asia, secondary to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Improved survival with sorafenib has fostered new research but many challenges remain in desig...

    Authors: Winnie Yeo, Pei-Jer Chen, Junji Furuse, Kwang-Hyub Han, Chiun Hsu, Ho-Yeong Lim, Hanlim Moon, Shukui Qin, Ee-Min Yeoh and Sheng-Long Ye
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:620
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  5. The etiology of hemangiosarcoma remains incompletely understood. Its common occurrence in dogs suggests predisposing factors favor its development in this species. These factors could represent a constellation...

    Authors: Beth A Tamburini, Tzu L Phang, Susan P Fosmire, Milcah C Scott, Susan C Trapp, Megan M Duckett, Sally R Robinson, Jill E Slansky, Leslie C Sharkey, Gary R Cutter, John W Wojcieszyn, Donald Bellgrau, Robert M Gemmill, Lawrence E Hunter and Jaime F Modiano
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:619
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Similar to human breast cancer mammary tumors of the female dog are commonly associated with a fatal outcome due to the development of distant metastases. However, the molecular defects leading to metastasis a...

    Authors: Robert Klopfleisch, Dido Lenze, Michael Hummel and Achim D Gruber
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:618
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes play important roles in NPC tumorgenesis. Tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2), is a protease inhibitor. Recently, TFPI-2 was suggested to be a tumor suppresso...

    Authors: Shumin Wang, Xue Xiao, Xiaoying Zhou, Tingting Huang, Chunping Du, Nana Yu, Yingxi Mo, Longde Lin, Jinyan Zhang, Ning Ma, Mariko Murata, Guangwu Huang and Zhe Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:617
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously expressed noncoding RNAs with important biological and pathological functions. Although several studies have shown that microRNA-31 (miR-31) is obviously up-regulated in col...

    Authors: Chao-Jie Wang, Johannes Stratmann, Zong-Guang Zhou and Xiao-Feng Sun
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:616
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Treatment standard for patients with atypical or anaplastic meningioma is neurosurgical resection. With this approach, local control ranges between 50% and 70%, depending on resection status. A series or small...

    Authors: Stephanie E Combs, Lutz Edler, Iris Burkholder, Stefan Rieken, Daniel Habermehl, Oliver Jäkel, Thomas Haberer, Andreas Unterberg, Wolfgang Wick, Jürgen Debus and Renate Haselmann
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:615
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. The Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway is critical for cell growth and differentiation. Impairment of this pathway can result in both birth defects and cancer. Despite its importance in cancer development,...

    Authors: Mehdi H Shahi, Mohammad Afzal, Subrata Sinha, Charles G Eberhart, Juan A Rey, Xing Fan and Javier S Castresana
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:614
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is up-regulated in several types of cancer, and it is hypothesized that COX-2 expression may be genetically influenced. Here, we evaluate the association between single-nucleotide poly...

    Authors: Diogo N Piranda, Juliana S Festa-Vasconcellos, Laura M Amaral, Anke Bergmann and Rosane Vianna-Jorge
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:613
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Currently the majority of cancer patients are considered ineligible for intensive care treatment and oncologists are struggling to get their patients admitted to intensive care units. Critical care and oncolog...

    Authors: Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon, Michael J Hallek, Alexander A Shimabukuro-Vornhagen and Matthias Kochanek
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:612
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  13. Elevated Plexin-B1 expression has been found in diverse human cancers and in non-neoplastic tissues, and it mediates diverse biological and pathological activities. However, whether or not Plexin-B1 expression...

    Authors: Shuangmei Ye, Xing Hao, Ting Zhou, Mingfu Wu, Juncheng Wei, Yongjun Wang, Li Zhou, Xuefeng Jiang, Li Ji, Yin Chen, Lanying You, Yiqun Zhang, Gang Xu, Jianfeng Zhou, Ding Ma and Shixuan Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:611
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2019 19:1164

  14. Oridonin, a tetracycline diterpenoid compound, has the potential antitumor activities. Here, we evaluate the antitumor activity and action mechanisms of oridonin in colorectal cancer.

    Authors: Feng-Hou Gao, Xiao-Hui Hu, Wei Li, Hua Liu, Yan-Jie Zhang, Zhu-Ying Guo, Mang-Hua Xu, Shi-Ting Wang, Bin Jiang, Feng Liu, Ying-Zheng Zhao, Yong Fang, Fang-Yuan Chen and Ying-Li Wu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:610
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. The validation of novel prognostic indicators is of greatest interest for the management of esophageal adenocarcinoma (Barrett's cancer), particularly for non-metastasized (stage I-IIA) disease. The prognostic...

    Authors: Sandra Rauser, Rupert Langer, Sebastian Tschernitz, Peter Gais, Uta Jütting, Marcus Feith, Heinz Höfler and Axel Walch
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:608
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Chordomas of the skull base are relative rare lesions of the bones. Surgical resection is the primary treatment standard, though complete resection is nearly impossible due to close proximity to critical and h...

    Authors: Anna V Nikoghosyan, Irini Karapanagiotou-Schenkel, Marc W Münter, Alexandra D Jensen, Stephanie E Combs and Jürgen Debus
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:607
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. Low and intermediate grade chondrosarcomas are relative rare bone tumours. About 5-12% of all chondrosarcomas are localized in base of skull region. Low grade chondrosarcoma has a low incidence of distant meta...

    Authors: Anna V Nikoghosyan, Geraldine Rauch, Marc W Münter, Alexandra D Jensen, Stephanie E Combs, Meinhard Kieser and Jürgen Debus
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:606
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Hypoxia induces activation of the HIF-1 pathway and is an essential characteristic of malignant gliomas. Hypoxia has been linked to tumor progression, therapy resistance and poor prognosis. However, little is ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Kessler, Antje Hahnel, Henri Wichmann, Swetlana Rot, Matthias Kappler, Matthias Bache and Dirk Vordermark
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:605
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Elucidating the activation pattern of molecular pathways across a given tumour type is a key challenge necessary for understanding the heterogeneity in clinical response and for developing novel more effective...

    Authors: Andrew E Teschendorff, Sergio Gomez, Alex Arenas, Dorraya El-Ashry, Marcus Schmidt, Mathias Gehrmann and Carlos Caldas
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:604
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. In the US, foreign-born Hispanics tend to live in socioeconomic conditions typically associated with later stage of breast cancer diagnosis, yet they have lower breast cancer mortality rates than their US-born...

    Authors: Theresa HM Keegan, Thu Quach, Sarah Shema, Sally L Glaser and Scarlett L Gomez
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:603
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Neuroblastoma (NB) is the second most common solid malignancy of childhood that usually undergoes rapid progression with a poor prognosis upon metastasis. The Src-family tyrosine kinases (SFKs) are a group of ...

    Authors: Michele Navarra, Marilena Celano, Jessica Maiuolo, Silvia Schenone, Maurizio Botta, Adriano Angelucci, Placido Bramanti and Diego Russo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:602
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) has been considered as a multiple function receptor due to binding numerous ligands, causing endocytosis and regulating cellular signaling. Our group previously re...

    Authors: Lei He, Yanjun Lu, Peng Wang, Jun Zhang, Chuanchang Yin and Shen Qu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:601
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  24. This study aimed to show that SHOX2 DNA methylation is a tumor marker in patients with suspected lung cancer by using bronchial fluid aspirated during bronchoscopy. Such a biomarker would be clinically valuabl...

    Authors: Bernd Schmidt, Volker Liebenberg, Dimo Dietrich, Thomas Schlegel, Christoph Kneip, Anke Seegebarth, Nadja Flemming, Stefanie Seemann, Jürgen Distler, Jörn Lewin, Reimo Tetzner, Sabine Weickmann, Ulrike Wille, Triantafillos Liloglou, Olaide Raji, Martin Walshaw…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:600
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  25. The genetic control of prostate cancer development is poorly understood. Large numbers of gene-expression datasets on different aspects of prostate tumorigenesis are available. We used these data to identify a...

    Authors: Ivan P Gorlov, Kanishka Sircar, Hongya Zhao, Sankar N Maity, Nora M Navone, Olga Y Gorlova, Patricia Troncoso, Curtis A Pettaway, Jin Young Byun and Christopher J Logothetis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:599
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  26. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in the US. Unlike other solid tumors such as testicular cancer which are now curable, more than 90% of pancreatic cancer patients die due to lack of respo...

    Authors: Zhaomin Li, Zizheng Dong, David Myer, Michele Yip-Schneider, Jianguo Liu, Ping Cui, C Max Schmidt and Jian-Ting Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:598
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  27. Several investigators have employed high throughput mitochondrial sequencing array (MitoChip) in clinical studies to search mtDNA for markers linked to cancers. In consequence, a host of somatic mtDNA mutation...

    Authors: Malliya Gounder Palanichamy and Ya-Ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:597
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  28. Prostate tumours are commonly poorly oxygenated which is associated with tumour progression and development of resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs and radiotherapy. Fibroblast growth factor 8b (FGF8b) is a mi...

    Authors: Johanna Tuomela, Tove J Grönroos, Maija P Valta, Jouko Sandholm, Aleksi Schrey, Jani Seppänen, Päivi Marjamäki, Sarita Forsback, Ilpo Kinnunen, Olof Solin, Heikki Minn and Pirkko L Härkönen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:596
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  29. The anti-infective agent Taurolidine (TRD) has been shown to have cell death inducing properties, but the mechanism of its action is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to identify potential common targ...

    Authors: Ansgar M Chromik, Stephan A Hahn, Adrien Daigeler, Annegret Flier, Daniel Bulut, Christina May, Kamran Harati, Jan Roschinsky, Dominique Sülberg, Dirk Weyhe, Ulrich Mittelkötter and Waldemar Uhl
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:595
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  30. The prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in cancer patients and its associated factors in Pakistan is not known. There is a need to develop an evidence base to help introduce interventions as untreat...

    Authors: Nauman A Jadoon, Waqar Munir, Mohammad A Shahzad and Zeshan S Choudhry
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:594
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  31. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most malignant intracranial tumour that develops in both adults and children. Microarray gene analyses have confirmed that the human YKL-40 gene is one of the most over-exp...

    Authors: Wei Zhang, Koji Murao, Xiang Zhang, Kensuke Matsumoto, Suwarni Diah, Masaki Okada, Keisuke Miyake, Nobuyuki Kawai, Zhou Fei and Takashi Tamiya
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:593
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  32. Intrinsic to "Patient-Centered Care" is being respectful and responsive to individual patient preferences, expressed needs, and personal values. Establishing a patient's preferences for active and aggressive i...

    Authors: Vincent Maida, Jonathan Peck, Marguerite Ennis, Navjot Brar and Alexandria R Maida
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:592
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  33. Circulating cell-free microRNAs have been identified as potential cancer biomarkers. However, the existence and the potential application of cell-free miRNAs in effusion samples are still uncertain. In order t...

    Authors: Li Xie, Xi Chen, Lifeng Wang, Xiaoping Qian, Tingting Wang, Jia Wei, Lixia Yu, Yitao Ding, Chenyu Zhang and Baorui Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:591
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  34. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality despite continuous efforts to find effective treatments. Data from the American Cancer Society indicate that while the overall incidence of lun...

    Authors: Dharmendra K Maurya, Chiyo Doi, Atsushi Kawabata, Marla M Pyle, Clay King, Zhihong Wu, Deryl Troyer and Masaaki Tamura
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:590
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  35. Electrotherapy effectiveness at different doses has been demonstrated in preclinical and clinical studies; however, several aspects that occur in the tumor growth kinetics before and after treatment have not y...

    Authors: Luis E Bergues Cabrales, Juan J Godina Nava, Andrés Ramírez Aguilera, Javier A González Joa, Héctor M Camué Ciria, Maraelys Morales González, Miriam Fariñas Salas, Manuel Verdecia Jarque, Tamara Rubio González, Miguel A O'Farril Mateus, Soraida C Acosta Brooks, Fabiola Suárez Palencia, Lisset Ortiz Zamora, María C Céspedes Quevedo, Sarah Edward Seringe, Vladimir Crombet Cuitié…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:589
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  36. It is known that alpha-defensin expression is enhanced in colon cancer. However, the expression of human alpha defensin 6 (DEFA 6) in earlier stages, such as adenoma, has so far not yet been studied in a patie...

    Authors: Mariya Y Radeva, Franziska Jahns, Anne Wilhelm, Michael Glei, Utz Settmacher, Karl Otto Greulich and Henning Mothes
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:588
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  37. Only a few studies have addressed the molecular pathways specifically involved in carcinogenesis of the distal colon and rectum. We aimed to identify potential differences among genetic alterations in distal c...

    Authors: Manuela Pinheiro, Terje Ahlquist, Stine A Danielsen, Guro E Lind, Isabel Veiga, Carla Pinto, Vera Costa, Luís Afonso, Olga Sousa, Maria Fragoso, Lúcio Santos, Rui Henrique, Paula Lopes, Carlos Lopes, Ragnhild A Lothe and Manuel R Teixeira
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:587
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  38. Developing the right drugs for the right patients has become a mantra of drug development. In practice, it is very difficult to identify subsets of patients who will respond to a drug under evaluation. Most of...

    Authors: Erich P Huang, Jane Fridlyand, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Peng Yue, Xiaoyan Shi, David Dornan and Bart Burington
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:586
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  39. Ovarian fibrosarcomas are very rare tumors, and therefore, few case studies have evaluated the prognostic factors of this disease. To our knowledge, this study represents the largest study to evaluate the clin...

    Authors: Long Huang, Ling-Min Liao, Hui-Yun Wang and Min Zheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:585
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  40. Lung cancer causes the highest rate of cancer-related deaths both in men and women. As many current treatment modalities are inadequate in increasing patient survival, new therapeutic strategies are required. ...

    Authors: Cigdem Aydin, Ahter D Sanlioglu, Atil Bisgin, Burcak Yoldas, Levent Dertsiz, Bahri Karacay, Thomas S Griffith and Salih Sanlioglu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:584
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  41. Cisplatin-based chemotherapy, in combination with fluoropyrimidines or taxanes, have demonstrated efficacy against advanced gastric cancer (AGC). This retrospective study was performed with the data obtained f...

    Authors: Do Hyoung Lim, Se Hoon Park, Keon Woo Park, Jung Hun Kang, Sung Yong Oh, In Gyu Hwang, Jung Mi Kwon, Sang-Cheol Lee, Hui-Young Lee, Hyeong Su Kim, Ho Yeong Lim and Won Ki Kang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:583
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  42. This study investigated potential prognostic factors in patients treated with whole-brain irradiation (WBI) alone for brain metastases from relatively radioresistant tumors such as malignant melanoma, renal ce...

    Authors: Thekla Meyners, Christine Heisterkamp, Jan-Dirk Kueter, Theo Veninga, Lukas JA Stalpers, Steven E Schild and Dirk Rades
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:582
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  43. Chemotherapy-induced anemia (CIA) is responsive to treatment with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) such as darbepoetin alfa. Administration of ESAs on a synchronous schedule with chemotherapy administr...

    Authors: Lee Schwartzberg, Ronald Burkes, Barry Mirtsching, Timothy Rearden, Peter Silberstein, Lorrin Yee, Amy Inamoto and Tom Lillie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:581
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  44. Liver resection is a widely accepted treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our previous clinical study showed that the rate of palliative resection was 34.0% (1958-2008, 2754 of 8107). However, the inf...

    Authors: Xiu-Yan Huang, Zi-Li Huang, Lu Wang, Yong-Hua Xu, Xin-Yu Huang, Kai-Xing Ai, Qi Zheng and Zhao-You Tang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:580
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  47. NORE1 (RASSF5) is a newly described member of the RASSF family with Ras effector function. NORE1 expression is frequently inactivated by aberrant promoter hypermethylation in many human cancers, suggesting that N...

    Authors: Chang Kyun Lee, Jin-Hee Lee, Min-Goo Lee, Seong-In Jeong, Tae-Kyu Ha, Min-Ju Kang, Byung-Kyu Ryu, Young Hwangbo, Jae-Jun Shim, Jae Young Jang, Kil Yeon Lee, Hyo Jong Kim and Sung-Gil Chi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:577
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  48. Most patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with advanced stage disease (i.e., stage III-IV), which is associated with a poor prognosis. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in stage III serous ovarian carci...

    Authors: Yun-Sook Kim, Jin Hwan Do, Sumi Bae, Dong-Han Bae and Woong Shick Ahn
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:576
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  49. CYP2E1 encodes a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes which play a central role in activating and detoxifying many carcinogens and endogenous compounds thought to be involved in the development o...

    Authors: Kefu Tang, Yang Li, Zhao Zhang, Yunmin Gu, Yuyu Xiong, Guoyin Feng, Lin He and Shengying Qin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:575
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  50. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a type of neoplasm that is highly prevalent in East Asia and Africa with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), genetic, and dietary factors implicated as possible aetiologic factors. Prev...

    Authors: Michelle MS Chew, Sook-Yee Gan, Alan SB Khoo and Eng-Lai Tan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2010 10:574
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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