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  1. AGITG DOCTOR was a randomised phase 2 trial of pre-operative cisplatin, 5 fluorouracil (CF) followed by docetaxel (D) with or without radiotherapy (RT) based on poor early response to CF, detected via PET, for...

    Authors: R. Mercieca-Bebber, E. H. Barnes, K. Wilson, Z. Samoon, E. Walpole, T. Mai, S. Ackland, M. Burge, G. Dickie, D. Watson, J. Leung, T. Wang, R. Bohmer, D. Cameron, J. Simes, V. Gebski…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:276
  2. Treatment decision for recurrent symptomatic brain metastases (BM) is challenging with scarce data regarding surgical resection. We therefore evaluated the efficacy of surgery for pretreated, recurrent BM in a...

    Authors: Nadine Heßler, Stephanie T. Jünger, Anna-Katharina Meissner, Martin Kocher, Roland Goldbrunner and Stefan Grau
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:275
  3. For patients with locally advanced (T3-4/N +) rectal cancer (LARC), the standard treatment is neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy combined with total mesorectal resection, which greatly decreases local recurrence bu...

    Authors: Yaqi Wang, Lijun Shen, Juefeng Wan, Hui Zhang, Ruiyan Wu, Jingwen Wang, Yan Wang, Ye Xu, Sanjun Cai, Zhen Zhang and Fan Xia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:274
  4. Associations of High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, total cholesterol (CHL), and triglyceride (TRG) concentrations with risk of biliary tract cancer (BtC) wer...

    Authors: Jun Wang, Jinke Zhuge, Dongxu Feng, Bo Zhang, Jianying Xu, Dongkang Zhao, Zhewei Fei, Xia Huang and Wenjie Shi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:273
  5. Despite significant survival improvement in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) blockade for HER2-positive breast cancer, resistance to anti-HER2 remains inevitable. Subsequent anti-HER2 with conti...

    Authors: Fangfang Duan, Muyi Zhong, Yuyu Ma, Chenge Song, Lehong Zhang, Ying Lin, Zhiyong Wu, Yuanqi Zhang, Jiajia Huang, Fei Xu, Yanxia Shi, Shusen Wang, Zhongyu Yuan, Wen Xia and Xiwen Bi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:271
  6. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with camrelizumab (hereafter, TACE-camrelizumab) in the treatment of patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (R-H...

    Authors: Yusheng Guo, Yanqiao Ren, Lei Chen, Tao Sun, Weihua Zhang, Bo Sun, Licheng Zhu, Fu Xiong and Chuansheng Zheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:270
  7. The de-escalation treatment in patients with low-risk HER2-positive early breast cancer (eBC) is an attractive strategy to avoid unnecessary treatment and improve the quality of life of patients. Pyrotinib, a ...

    Authors: Changjun Wang, Yidong Zhou, Yan Lin, Feng Mao, Jinghong Guan, Xiaohui Zhang, Songjie Shen, Xuejing Wang, Yanna Zhang, Bo Pan, Ying Zhong, Li Peng, Xi Cao, Ru Yao, Xingtong Zhou, Chi Xu…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:269
  8. Cell-free and concentrated ascites reinfusion therapy (CART) is a strategy for improving various intractable symptoms due to refractory ascites, including hypoalbuminemia. CART has recently been applied in the...

    Authors: Misato Tsubokura, Yuko Adegawa, Minoru Kojima, Ryuji Tanosaki, Ryuzaburo Ohtake, Yuki Kase, Nao Iwashita, Moemi Kasane, Saori Nakabayashi, Sayaka Takeuchi, Ken Kato, Narikazu Boku, Yukihide Kanemitsu, Takuji Okusaka, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Kan Yonemori…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:268
  9. High-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) is used in the treatment of different childhood cancers, including leukemia, the most common cancer type and is commonly defined as an intravenous dose of at least 1 g/m2 body surf...

    Authors: Eveline Daetwyler, Mario Bargetzi, Maria Otth and Katrin Scheinemann
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:267
  10. This research aimed to provide an overview of the impact of adjuvant vaginal brachytherapy (VBT) and external beam pelvic radiotherapy (EBRT) with or without VBT on survival in stage I to II EC patients in Chi...

    Authors: Wenhui Wang, Tiejun Wang, Zi Liu, Jianli He, Xiaoge Sun, Wei Zhong, Fengjv Zhao, Xiaomei Li, Sha Li, Hong Zhu, Zhanshu Ma, Ke Hu, Fuquan Zhang, Xiaorong Hou, Lichun Wei and Lijuan Zou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:266
  11. Reportedly, circular RNA (circRNA) is a key modulator in the development of human malignancies. This work is aimed to probe the expression pattern, biological effects and mechanism of circ_0064288 on hepatocel...

    Authors: Yingying Nie, Xuedan Zhu, Nan Bu, Yang Jiang, Yue Su, Keming Pan and Shanshan Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:265
  12. With the improved knowledge of disease biology and the introduction of immune checkpoints, there has been significant progress in treating renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients. Individual treatment will differ ...

    Authors: Chen Xu, Hui Zeng, Junli Fan, Wenjie Huang, Xiaosi Yu, Shiqi Li, Fubing Wang and Xinghua Long
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:264
  13. Ovarian cancer is initially responsive to frontline chemotherapy. Unfortunately, it often recurs and becomes resistant to available therapies and the survival rate for advanced and recurrent ovarian cancer is ...

    Authors: Pratibha S. Binder, Yassar M. Hashim, James Cripe, Tommy Buchanan, Abigail Zamorano, Suwanna Vangveravong, David G. Mutch, William G. Hawkins, Matthew A. Powell and Dirk Spitzer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:263
  14. Increasing germline gene mutations have been discovered in haematological malignancies with the development of next-generation sequencing (NGS), which is critical for proper clinical management and long-term f...

    Authors: Xia Wu, Jili Deng, Nanchen Zhang, Xiaoyan Liu, Xue Zheng, Tianyou Yan, Wu Ye and Yuping Gong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:262
  15. The efficiency of capecitabine has been proven in early-stage triple negative breast cancer (eTNBC) with residue invasive tumor (non-pCR) after standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). However, for those unse...

    Authors: Feng Ye, Lei Bian, Jiahuai Wen, Ping Yu, Na Li, Xiaoming Xie and Xi Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:261
  16. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are thought to play important roles in carcinogenesis, recurrence, metastasis, and therapy-resistance. We have successfully induced cancer stem-like sphere cells (CSLCs) which possess ...

    Authors: Ryouichi Tsunedomi, Kiyoshi Yoshimura, Yuta Kimura, Mitsuo Nishiyama, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Satoshi Matsukuma, Shinsuke Kanekiyo, Hiroto Matsui, Yoshitaro Shindo, Yusaku Watanabe, Yukio Tokumitsu, Shin Yoshida, Michihisa Iida, Nobuaki Suzuki, Shigeru Takeda, Tatsuya Ioka…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:260
  17. The trend of women suffering from early-onset breast cancer is increasing in Taiwan. The association of early-onset breast cancer with body mass index (BMI), menarche, and menopausal status has focused interes...

    Authors: Pei-Jing Yang, Ming-Feng Hou, Fu Ou-Yang, Eing-Mei Tsai and Tsu-Nai Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:259
  18. Accurate prognosis assessment is essential for surgically resected intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) while published prognostic tools are limited by modest performance. We therefore aimed to establish a no...

    Authors: Gu-Wei Ji, Chen-Yu Jiao, Zheng-Gang Xu, Xiang-Cheng Li, Ke Wang and Xue-Hao Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:258
  19. Over half of colorectal cancers (CRCs) are hard-wired to RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK pathway oncogenic signaling. However, the promise of targeted therapeutic inhibitors, has been tempered by disappointing clinical activi...

    Authors: Mingli Yang, Thomas B. Davis, Lance Pflieger, Michael V. Nebozhyn, Andrey Loboda, Heiman Wang, Michael J. Schell, Ramya Thota, W. Jack Pledger and Timothy J. Yeatman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:256
  20. As part of the multi-country I-O Optimise research initiative, this population-based study evaluated real-world treatment patterns and overall survival (OS) in patients treated for advanced non-small cell lung...

    Authors: Robert Carroll, Margherita Bortolini, Alan Calleja, Robin Munro, Shiying Kong, Melinda J. Daumont, John R. Penrod, Khalid Lakhdari, Laure Lacoin and Winson Y. Cheung
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:255
  21. The standard treatment for patients with advanced HER2-positive gastric cancer is a combination of the antibody trastuzumab and platin-fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy. As some patients do not respond to trastuzu...

    Authors: Karolin Ebert, Ivonne Haffner, Gwen Zwingenberger, Simone Keller, Elba Raimúndez, Robert Geffers, Ralph Wirtz, Elena Barbaria, Vanessa Hollerieth, Rouven Arnold, Axel Walch, Jan Hasenauer, Dieter Maier, Florian Lordick and Birgit Luber
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:254
  22. SOX (oxaliplatin and S1, every 3 weeks) is one of the most common first-line chemotherapy for advanced or metastatic G/GEJ (gastric or gastroesophageal junction) cancer in Asia, but it has noticeable hematolog...

    Authors: Zhichao Jiang, Aiping Zhou, Yongkun Sun and Wen Zhang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:253
  23. Women with behavioral health (BH) conditions (e.g., mental illness and substance abuse) receive fewer cervical cancer (CC) screenings, are diagnosed at more advanced cancer stages, and are less likely to recei...

    Authors: Rahma S. Mkuu, Stephanie A. Staras, Sarah M. Szurek, Dalila D’Ingeo, Mary A. Gerend, Dianne L. Goede and Elizabeth A. Shenkman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:252
  24. Positron emission tomography targeting the prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA PET/CT) has demonstrated unparalleled performance as a staging examination for prostate cancer resulting in substantial chang...

    Authors: Cynthia Ménard, Sympascho Young, Katherine Zukotynski, Robert J. Hamilton, François Bénard, Steven Yip, Christopher McCabe, Fred Saad, Michael Brundage, Roy Nitulescu and Glenn Bauman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:251
  25. Greater early life adiposity has been reported to reduce postmenopausal breast cancer risk but it is unclear whether this association varies by tumour characteristics. We aimed to assess associations of early ...

    Authors: TienYu Owen Yang, Benjamin J. Cairns, Kirstin Pirie, Jane Green, Valerie Beral, Sarah Floud and Gillian K. Reeves
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:232
  26. This study aims to investigate thrombospondin 2 (TSP2) expression levels in gastric cancer (GC) and determine the relationship between TSP2 and clinical characteristics and prognosis.

    Authors: Xiao-dong Chu, Zheng-bin Lin, Ting Huang, Hui Ding, Yi-ran Zhang, Zhan Zhao, Shu-chen Huangfu, Sheng-hui Qiu, Yan-guan Guo, Xiao-li Chu, Jing-hua Pan and Yun-long Pan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:250
  27. Inflammation plays a significant role in tumour development, progression, and metastasis. In this study, we focused on comparing the predictive potential of inflammatory markers for overall survival (OS), recu...

    Authors: Shuqi Mao, Xi Yu, Jihan Sun, Yong Yang, Yuying Shan, Jiannan Sun, Joseph Mugaanyi, Rui Fan, Shengdong Wu and Caide Lu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:249
  28. Axillary vein/subclavian vein (AxV/SCV) and Internal jugular vein (IJV) are commonly used for implantable venous access port (IVAP) implantation in breast cancer patients for chemotherapy. Previous research fo...

    Authors: Yan Bo Chen, Hao Shi Bao, Ting Ting Hu, Zhou He, Biaolin Wen, Feng Tao Liu, Feng Xi Su, He Ran Deng and Jian Nan Wu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:248
  29. Effective systemic treatments have revolutionized the management of patients with metastatic melanoma, including those with brain metastases. The extent to which these treatments influence disease trajectories...

    Authors: Annemarie C. Eggen, Geke A. P. Hospers, Ingeborg Bosma, Miranda C. A. Kramer, Anna K. L. Reyners and Mathilde Jalving
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:247
  30. The increasing role of exercise training in cancer care is built on evidence that exercise can reduce side effects of treatment, improve physical functioning and quality of life. We and others have shown in mo...

    Authors: Gitte Holmen Olofsson, Marta Kramer Mikkelsen, Anne-Mette Ragle, Anne Birgitte Christiansen, Anne Pries Olsen, Lise Heide-Ottosen, Cecilia Bech Horsted, Cia Moon Scharbau Pedersen, Lotte Engell-Noerregaard, Torben Lorentzen, Gitte Fredberg Persson, Anders Vinther, Dorte Lisbet Nielsen and Per thor Straten
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:246
  31. Cancer patients experience gastrointestinal and behavioral symptoms, and are at increased risk of systemic infection and inflammation. These conditions are a major source of morbidity and decreased quality of ...

    Authors: Brett R. Loman, Kathryn L. G. Russart, Corena V. Grant, Alexis J. Lynch, Michael T. Bailey and Leah M. Pyter
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:245
  32. With a growing, younger population of head and neck cancer survivors, attention to long-term side-effects of prior, often radiotherapeutic, treatment is warranted. Therefore, we studied the long-term cognitive...

    Authors: Judith T. Pruijssen, Ashwin Wenmakers, Roy P. C. Kessels, Vitoria Piai, Frederick J. A. Meijer, Sjoert A. H. Pegge, Jacqueline J. Loonen, Anil M. Tuladhar, Hendrik H. G. Hansen, Johannes H. A. M. Kaanders and Joyce Wilbers
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:244
  33. Inflammatory blood markers have been associated with oncological outcomes in several cancers, but evidence for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is scanty. Therefore, this study aims at investigati...

    Authors: Paolo Boscolo-Rizzo, Andrea D’Alessandro, Jerry Polesel, Daniele Borsetto, Margherita Tofanelli, Alberto Deganello, Michele Tomasoni, Piero Nicolai, Paolo Bossi, Giacomo Spinato, Anna Menegaldo, Andrea Ciorba, Stefano Pelucchi, Chiara Bianchini, Diego Cazzador, Giulia Ramaciotti…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:243
  34. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive tumors are defined by protein overexpression (3+) or gene amplification using immunohistochemistry (IHC) or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), resp...

    Authors: Yoshiya Horimoto, Yumiko Ishizuka, Yuko Ueki, Toru Higuchi, Atsushi Arakawa and Mitsue Saito
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:242
  35. This study was designed to investigate the impact of anti-tumor approaches (including chemotherapy, targeted therapy, endocrine therapy, immunotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy) on the outcomes of cancer patie...

    Authors: Qing Wu, Shuimei Luo and Xianhe Xie
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:241
  36. Bladder Cancer (BCa) is a severe genitourinary tract disease with an uncertain pathology. Increasing evidence indicates that the tumor microenvironment plays a decisive role with respect to cancer progression,...

    Authors: Zhenfeng Guan, Yi Sun, Liang Mu, Yazhuo Jiang and Jinhai Fan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:240
  37. Biochemical recurrence (BCR) after initial treatment, such as radical prostatectomy, is the most frequently adopted prognostic factor for patients who suffer from prostate cancer (PCa). In this study, we aimed...

    Authors: Yiqiao Zhao, Zijia Tao, Lei Li, Jianyi Zheng and Xiaonan Chen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:239
  38. We report here the first population-based incidence rates and prognosis of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) in Finland.

    Authors: Inka Puhakka, Hanne Kuitunen, Pekka Jäkälä, Eila Sonkajärvi, Taina Turpeenniemi-Hujanen, Aino Rönkä, Tuomas Selander, Miika Korhonen and Outi Kuittinen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:236
  39. Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer has become a major global medical issue. Ultrasound-based thyroid cancer screening has promoted overdiagnosis, and recently international recommendations state that it should no...

    Authors: Sanae Midorikawa and Akira Ohtsuru
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:235
  40. The role of skeletal muscle index (SMI) and systemic inflammation index (SII) for patients with lymph node-positive breast cancer remain controversial. This retrospective study aims to evaluate the individual ...

    Authors: Ru Tang, Jia-Peng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wen-Wen Zhang, Jia-Yuan Sun, Feng Chi, Jun Zhang, San-Gang Wu and Zhen-Yu He
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:234
  41. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous disease defined using a number of well-established molecular subsets. Application of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to whole exome sequence dat...

    Authors: Eugene Kim, Yanwen Jiang, Tao Xu, Alexandra Bazeos, Andrea Knapp, Christopher R. Bolen, Kathryn Humphrey, Tina G. Nielsen, Elicia Penuel and Joseph N. Paulson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:231
  42. In the registration trial, cabozantinib exposure ≥ 750 ng/mL correlated to improved tumor size reduction, response rate and progression free survival (PFS) in patients with metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC)....

    Authors: Stefanie D. Krens, Nielka P. van Erp, Stefanie L. Groenland, Dirk Jan A. R. Moes, Sasja F. Mulder, Ingrid M. E. Desar, Tom van der Hulle, Neeltje Steeghs and Carla M. L. van Herpen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:228
  43. The oncogenic drivers of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is characterized by worst prognosis compared with other subtypes, are poorly understood. Although next-generation sequencing technology has ...

    Authors: Xi Zhang, Xin Mu, Ou Huang, Zhitang Wang, Jialin Chen, Debo Chen and Gen Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2022 22:226

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