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  1. microRNAs are small non-protein-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression, and have a potential epigenetic role in disease progression and survival of colorectal cancer. In terms of tumor-normal expre...

    Authors: John R. Stevens, Jennifer S. Herrick, Roger K. Wolff and Martha L. Slattery
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:707
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. PTTG1-interacting protein (PTTG1IP) is an oncogenic protein, which participates in metaphase-anaphase transition of the cell cycle through activation of securin (PTTG1). PTTG1IP promotes the shift of securin f...

    Authors: Heli Repo, Natalia Gurvits, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Marjukka Nykänen, Minnamaija Lintunen, Henna Karra, Samu Kurki, Teijo Kuopio, Kati Talvinen, Mirva Söderström and Pauliina Kronqvist
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:705
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. The Victorian Prostate Cancer Registry (Australia) revealed poorer rates of survival for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in one Victorian regional area than for men in metropolitan Melbourne. We sought to e...

    Authors: Maggie Kirkman, Kate Young, Susan Evans, Jeremy Millar, Jane Fisher, Danielle Mazza and Rasa Ruseckaite
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:704
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Aim of this study was to compare cancer incidence in populations with and without diabetes by cancer site. Furthermore, we aimed at comparing excess risk of cancer according to diabetes type, diabetes duration...

    Authors: Paola Ballotari, Massimo Vicentini, Valeria Manicardi, Marco Gallo, Sofia Chiatamone Ranieri, Marina Greci and Paolo Giorgi Rossi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:703
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Lifestyle recommendations for cancer survivors are warranted to improve survival. In this study, we aimed to examine the association of total physical activity, different types of physical activity, hours of s...

    Authors: Ilka Ratjen, Clemens Schafmayer, Romina di Giuseppe, Sabina Waniek, Sandra Plachta-Danielzik, Manja Koch, Greta Burmeister, Ute Nöthlings, Jochen Hampe, Sabrina Schlesinger and Wolfgang Lieb
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:701
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Similar to most solid tumors, the incidence of hematologic malignancies has been rising. Although the median age at diagnosis is about 70 years, little is known about psychosocial aspects and comorbid conditio...

    Authors: Norbert Köhler, Anja Mehnert and Heide Götze
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:700
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. Cancer survivors are at risk of developing a second primary cancer (SPC) later in life because of persisting effects of genetic and behavioural risk factors, the long-term sequelae of chemotherapy, radiotherap...

    Authors: Oliver Preyer, Nicole Concin, Andreas Obermair, Hans Concin, Hanno Ulmer and Willi Oberaigner
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:699
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Quantifying the response of cell lines to drugs or other perturbagens is the cornerstone of pre-clinical drug development and pharmacogenomics as well as a means to study factors that contribute to sensitivity...

    Authors: Nicholas A. Clark, Marc Hafner, Michal Kouril, Elizabeth H. Williams, Jeremy L. Muhlich, Marcin Pilarczyk, Mario Niepel, Peter K. Sorger and Mario Medvedovic
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:698
    Content type: Software Published on:

  10. The presence of circulating cell-free DNA from tumours in blood (ctDNA) is of major importance to those interested in early cancer detection, as well as to those wishing to monitor tumour progression or diagno...

    Authors: Ian A. Cree, Lesley Uttley, Helen Buckley Woods, Hugh Kikuchi, Anne Reiman, Susan Harnan, Becky L. Whiteman, Sian Taylor Philips, Michael Messenger, Angela Cox, Dawn Teare, Orla Sheils and Jacqui Shaw
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:697
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Our research aimed to investigate whether lymphadenectomy was required in patients with intermediate-risk endometrioid endometrial cancer (EEC).

    Authors: Menghan Zhu, Nan Jia, Feifei Huang, Xiaoxia Liu, Yuqing Zhao, Xiang Tao, Wei Jiang, Qin Li and Weiwei Feng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:696
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. The emergence of chemoresistant cancers and toxicity related to existing chemotherapeutic agents, demand the search for new pharmacophore with enhanced anti-cancer activity and least toxicity. For this purpose...

    Authors: Umar Farooq, Sadia Naz, Binte Zehra, Ajmal Khan, Syed Abid Ali, Ayaz Ahmed, Rizwana Sarwar, Syed Majid Bukhari, Abdur Rauf, Izhar Ahmad and Yahia Nasser Mabkhot
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:694
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Women may have incomplete understanding of a breast cancer diagnosis, leading to inaccurate reporting in epidemiological studies. However, it is not feasible to obtain consent for medical records from all wome...

    Authors: Aimee A. D’Aloisio, Hazel B. Nichols, M. Elizabeth Hodgson, Sandra L. Deming-Halverson and Dale P. Sandler
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:692
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Metastatic colorectal cancer imposes a substantial burden on patients and society. Over the last years, progresses in the treatment have been made especially due to the introduction of monoclonal antibodies, s...

    Authors: Andrea Queiróz Ungari, Leonardo Régis Leira Pereira, Altacílio Aparecido Nunes and Fernanda Maris Peria
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:691
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) may be a useful molecule for targeted immunotherapy. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to investigate PD-L1 expression in breast cancer and its associations with clinic...

    Authors: Hye Min Kim, Jinae Lee and Ja Seung Koo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:690
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. No studies have measured preference-based utility weights for specific toxicities and outcomes associated with approved and investigational adjuvant treatments for patients with resected high-risk melanoma.

    Authors: Mark R. Middleton, Michael B. Atkins, Kaitlan Amos, Peter Feng Wang, Srividya Kotapati, Javier Sabater and Kathleen Beusterien
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:689
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. There is limited data in Ghana on the epidemiology of HPV and cervical neoplasia and their associations with HIV. This study aimed to compare among HIV-1 seropositive and HIV-seronegative Ghanaian women: (1) t...

    Authors: Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah, Patrick K. Akakpo, Mohamed Mutocheluh, Emmanuel Adjei-Danso, Gloria Allornuvor, Daniel Amoako-Sakyi, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie and Philippe Mayaud
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:688
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. High birth weight (BW), 4000 g or larger, is an established risk factor for childhood leukemia. However, its association with central nervous system (CNS) tumor risk is yet unclear. The present study examined ...

    Authors: Long Thanh Tran, Hang Thi Minh Lai, Chihaya Koriyama, Futoshi Uwatoko and Suminori Akiba
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:687
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. The occurrence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is associated with changes in health-related quality of life, including psychological factors, such as fear and shame, and changes in sexuality and se...

    Authors: Cristiane Menezes Sirna Fregnani, José Humberto Tavares Guerreiro Fregnani and Adhemar Longatto-Filho
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:686
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Due to high survival rates and the relatively small benefit of adjuvant therapy, the application of personalized medicine (PM) through risk stratification is particularly beneficial in early breast cancer (BC)...

    Authors: Beate Jahn, Ursula Rochau, Christina Kurzthaler, Michael Hubalek, Rebecca Miksad, Gaby Sroczynski, Mike Paulden, Marvin Bundo, David Stenehjem, Diana Brixner, Murray Krahn and Uwe Siebert
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:685
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Cytotoxic chemotherapeutics form the cornerstone of systemic treatment of many cancers. Patients are dosed at maximum tolerated dose (MTD), which is carefully determined in phase I studies. In contrast, in mur...

    Authors: Wayne J. Aston, Danika E. Hope, Anna K. Nowak, Bruce W. Robinson, Richard A. Lake and W. Joost Lesterhuis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:684
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of nab-paclitaxel in patients with refractory advanced non-small cell lung cancer who failed previous chemotherapy.

    Authors: Hisashi Tanaka, Kageaki Taima, Takeshi Morimoto, Yoshihito Tanaka, Masamichi Itoga, Kunihiko Nakamura, Akihito Hayashi, Mika Kumagai, Hideo Yasugahira, Megumi Mikuniya, Koichi Okudera, Shingo Takanashi and Sadatomo Tasaka
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:683
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. It is estimated that a total of 120,000 new cancer cases in men and in women in more developed countries could be avoided if exposure to HPV was prevented. We used the nationwide pool of German population-base...

    Authors: Nina Buttmann-Schweiger, Yvonne Deleré, Stefanie J. Klug and Klaus Kraywinkel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:682
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. The high burden of cervical cancer in Zambia prompted the Ministry of Health and partners to develop the cervical cancer prevention program in Zambia (CCPPZ) in 2006. Despite this intervention more women conti...

    Authors: Twaambo Euphemia Hamoonga, Rosemary Ndonyo Likwa, Patrick Musonda and Charles Michelo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:681
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Previous studies have found that polymorphisms of the DNA repair gene X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1(XRCC1) and environmental factors are both associated with an increased risk of stomach cancer, but no...

    Authors: Nuntiput Putthanachote, Supannee Promthet, Cameron Hurst, Krittika Suwanrungruang, Peechanika Chopjitt, Surapon Wiangnon, Sam Li-Sheng Chen, Amy Ming-Fang Yen and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:680
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) has increasingly contributed to the management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. The objective of this paper was to explore the prognostic significance of apparent...

    Authors: Dan-Fang Yan, Wen-Bao Zhang, Shan-Bao Ke, Feng Zhao, Sen-Xiang Yan, Qi-Dong Wang and Li-Song Teng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:678
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Both enzalutamide and abiraterone have demonstrated improved radiographic progression-free and overall survival for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) compared with placebo controls before docetaxel t...

    Authors: Kouji Izumi, Atsushi Mizokami, Mikio Namiki, Shogo Inoue, Nobumichi Tanaka, Yuko Yoshio, Kei Ishibashi, Manabu Kamiyama, Noriyasu Kawai, Hideki Enokida, Takashi Shima and Shizuko Takahara
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:677
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  32. Cutaneous basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the commonest cancer worldwide. BCC is locally invasive and the surrounding stromal microenvironment is pivotal for tumourigenesis. Cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) ...

    Authors: Silje Haukali Omland, Erika Elgstrand Wettergren, Sarah Mollerup, Maria Asplund, Tobias Mourier, Anders Johannes Hansen and Robert Gniadecki
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:675
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2018 18:111

  33. Cancer patients experience pain that has physiological, sensory, affective, cognitive, behavioral, and sociocultural dimensions. Opioids are used in treatment of pain in patients with various types of cancer. ...

    Authors: Hiromichi Matsuoka, Junji Tsurutani, Yasutaka Chiba, Yoshihiko Fujita, Masato Terashima, Takeshi Yoshida, Kiyohiro Sakai, Yoichi Otake, Atsuko Koyama, Kazuto Nishio and Kazuhiko Nakagawa
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:674
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  34. Our previous study showed FOXM1 expression was significantly up-regulated in cervical cancer, and was associated with poor prognosis. To clarify miRNAs-FOXM1 modulation pathways, in this study, we investigated...

    Authors: Shanyang He, Bing Liao, Yalan Deng, Chang Su, Jiuling Tuo, Jun Liu, Shuzhong Yao and Lin Xu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:673
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Tumor invasion through a basement membrane is one of the earliest steps in metastasis, and growth factors, such as Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) and Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF), stimulate this process in a ...

    Authors: Samantha S. Dykes, Joshua J. Steffan and James A. Cardelli
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:672
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. To assess the feasibility and potential impact on target delineation of respiratory-gated (4D) contrast-enhanced 18Fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography - computed tomography (PET-CT), in...

    Authors: Andrew Scarsbrook, Gillian Ward, Patrick Murray, Rebecca Goody, Karen Marshall, Garry McDermott, Robin Prestwich and Ganesh Radhakrishna
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:671
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Slug is a transcription factor that activates the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) process in cancer progression. The aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical significance ...

    Authors: Han Hee Lee, Sung Hak Lee, Kyo Young Song, Sae Jung Na, Joo Hyun O, Jae Myung Park, Eun Sun Jung, Myung-Gyu Choi and Cho Hyun Park
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:670
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. After publication of the original article [1] the authors found the following author names were incorrect and needed to be amended:

    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 17:669
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:384

  40. Authors: M. J. Murphy, J. M. Newby, P. Butow, L. Kirsten, K. Allison, S. Loughnan, M. A. Price, J. Shaw, H. Shepherd, J. Smith and G. Andrews
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:667
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:193

  42. Whole-lesion apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) histogram analysis has been introduced and proved effective in assessment of multiple tumors. However, the application of whole-volume ADC histogram analysis i...

    Authors: Song Liu, Yujuan Zhang, Ling Chen, Wenxian Guan, Yue Guan, Yun Ge, Jian He and Zhengyang Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:665
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Over half of men who receive treatment for prostate suffer from a range of sexual problems that affect negatively their sexual health, sexual intimacy with their partners and their quality of life. In clinical...

    Authors: D. Wittmann, A. Mehta, L. Northouse, R. Dunn, T. Braun, A. Duby, L. An, L. Arab, R. Bangs, S. Bober, J. Brandon, M. Coward, M. Dunn, M. Galbraith, M. Garcia, J. Giblin…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:664
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. Lung cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers, and is a leading cause of cancer mortality world-wide. Due to lack of early specific symptoms, the majority of patients present with advanced, inopera...

    Authors: Lara Edbrooke, Sanchia Aranda, Catherine L. Granger, Christine F. McDonald, Mei Krishnasamy, Linda Mileshkin, Louis Irving, Sabine Braat, Ross A. Clark, Ian Gordon and Linda Denehy
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:663
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  45. The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of biomarkers in assessing the risk of breast cancer recurrence in patients with node-negative or micrometastatic grade II breast cancer. Specifically, w...

    Authors: Elise Deluche, Laurence Venat-Bouvet, Sophie Leobon, Veronique Fermeaux, Joelle Mollard, Nadira Saidi, Isabelle Jammet, Yves Aubard and Nicole Tubiana-Mathieu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:662
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Secreted clusterin (sCLU), a 75–80 kDa disulfide-linked heterodimeric protein, plays crucial roles in various pathophysiological processes, including lipid transport, tissue remodeling, cell apoptosis and repr...

    Authors: Runsen Jin, Xingshi Chen, Dingpei Han, Xiaoying Luo and Hecheng Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:661
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Metastasis is a major clinical problem whose biology is not yet fully understood. This lack of understanding is especially true for the events at the metastatic site, which include arrest, extravasation, and g...

    Authors: David C. Benjamin and Richard O. Hynes
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:660
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  48. Current evidence on risk of prostate cancer following a diagnosis of male breast cancer is limited and guidance for screening in this potentially higher-risk population remainsunclear. Our objective was to qua...

    Authors: Nikita Abhyankar, Kent F. Hoskins, Michael R. Abern and Gregory S. Calip
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:659
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death among female patients with cancer in the world. High risk human papillomavirus has causal roles in cervical cancer initiation and progression by deregulatin...

    Authors: Sunyoung Park, Kiyoon Eom, Jungho Kim, Hyeeun Bang, Hye-young Wang, Sungwoo Ahn, Geehyuk Kim, Hyoungsoon Jang, Sunghyun Kim, Dongsup Lee, Kwang Hwa Park and Hyeyoung Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:658
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. There is evidence that some ovarian tumours evoke an immune response, which can be assessed by tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). To facilitate adoption of TILs as a clinical biomarker, a standardised met...

    Authors: Fiona R. James, Mercedes Jiminez-Linan, Jennifer Alsop, Marie Mack, Honglin Song, James D. Brenton, Paul D. P. Pharoah and H. Raza Ali
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:657
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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