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  1. Obesity and related metabolic abnormalities, including inflammation and lipid accumulation in the liver, play a role in liver carcinogenesis. Adipocytokine imbalances, such as decreased serum adiponectin level...

    Authors: Masahito Shimizu, Yoichi Yasuda, Hiroyasu Sakai, Masaya Kubota, Daishi Terakura, Atsushi Baba, Tomohiko Ohno, Takahiro Kochi, Hisashi Tsurumi, Takuji Tanaka and Hisataka Moriwaki
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:281
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  2. Since a substantial percentage of ovarian cancers express gonadotropin receptors and are responsive to the relatively high concentrations of pituitary gonadotropins during the postmenopausal years, it has been...

    Authors: Juan Cui, Brooke M Miner, Joanna B Eldredge, Susanne W Warrenfeltz, Phuongan Dam, Ying Xu and David Puett
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:280
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  3. After primary treatment for breast cancer, patients are recommended to use hospital follow-up care routinely. Long-term data on the utilization of this follow-up care are relatively rare.

    Authors: Wenli Lu, Liesbeth Jansen, Michael Schaapveld, Peter C Baas, Theo Wiggers and Geertruida H De Bock
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:279
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  4. Inter-individual variation in DNA repair capacity is thought to modulate breast cancer risk. The phenotypic mutagen sensitivity assay (MSA) measures DNA strand breaks in lymphocytes; women with familial and sp...

    Authors: Luisel J Ricks-Santi, Lara E Sucheston, Yang Yang, Jo L Freudenheim, Claudine J Isaacs, Marc D Schwartz, Ramona G Dumitrescu, Catalin Marian, Jing Nie, Dominica Vito, Stephen B Edge and Peter G Shields
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:278
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  6. It is well known that carcinomas of the gastrointestinal tract are frequently associated with peritoneal carcinomatosis. In contrast to that entity extensive involvement of the peritoneal cavity with malignant...

    Authors: Yun Gi Kim, Ji Yeon Baek, Sun Young Kim, Dong Hyeon Lee, Weon Seo Park, Youngmee Kwon, Min Ju Kim, Jeehoon Kang and Joo Myung Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:276
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  7. Aldehyde deyhdrogenase 1 (ALDH1) has been characterised as a cancer stem cell marker in different types of tumours. Additionally, it plays a pivotal role in gene regulation and endows tumour cells with augment...

    Authors: Christoph Kahlert, Frank Bergmann, Janine Beck, Thilo Welsch, Carolin Mogler, Esther Herpel, Shamik Dutta, Thomas Niemietz, Moritz Koch and Jürgen Weitz
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:275
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  8. Targeting of the renin angiotensin system (RAS) reduces tumour growth in experimental models of cancer. We aimed to establish if combined targeting of the 'classical' and 'alternative' arms of the RAS could re...

    Authors: Eleanor I Ager, Shu Wen Wen, Joyna Chan, Way W Chong, Jaclyn H Neo and Christopher Christophi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:274
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  9. Members of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) system are up-regulated in various solid malignant tumors. High antigen levels of uPA, its inhibitor PAI-1 and its receptor uPAR have recently been sho...

    Authors: Matthias Kotzsch, Viktor Magdolen, Thomas Greither, Matthias Kappler, Matthias Bache, Christine Lautenschläger, Susanne Füssel, Alexander W Eckert, Thomas Luther, Gustavo Baretton, Peter Würl and Helge Taubert
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:273
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  11. Our previous studies showed that ZBTB20, a new BTB/POZ-domain gene, could negatively regulate α feto-protein and other liver-specific genes, concerning such as bio-transformation, glucose metabolism and the re...

    Authors: Qing Wang, Ye-xiong Tan, Yi-bin Ren, Li-wei Dong, Zhi-fang Xie, Liang Tang, Dan Cao, Wei-ping Zhang, He-ping Hu and Hong-yang Wang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:271
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  12. Myofibrillogenesis regulator 1 (MR-1) is overexpressed in human cancer cells and plays an essential role in cancer cell growth. However, the significance of MR-1 in human ovarian cancer has not yet been explor...

    Authors: Renquan Lu, Min Sun, Jingjing Feng, Xiang Gao and Lin Guo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:270
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  13. Flaxseed (FS) is a dietary supplement known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Radiation exposure of lung tissues occurs either when given therapeutically to treat intrathoracic malignancies...

    Authors: Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou, Sonia Tyagi, Kay-See Tan, Sarah Hagan, Ralph Pietrofesa, Floyd Dukes, Evguenia Arguiri, Daniel F Heitjan, Charalambos C Solomides and Keith A Cengel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:269
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  14. Cucurbitacin-I (JSI-124) is potent inhibitor of JAK/STAT3 signaling pathway and has anti-tumor activity in a variety of cancer including B cell leukemia. However, other molecular targets of JSI-124 beyond the ...

    Authors: Ganchimeg Ishdorj, James B Johnston and Spencer B Gibson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:268
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  15. Extrahepatic biliary duct cancers (EBDC) are uncommon malignancies characterized by a poor prognosis with high rate of loco-regional recurrence. The purpose of the present study is to assess the feasibility an...

    Authors: Marta Bonet Beltrán, Arnaud D Roth, Gilles Mentha and Abdelkarim S Allal
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:267
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  16. 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET (18F-FDG-PET) can be used for early response assessment in patients with locally advanced adenocarcinomas of the oesophagogastric junction (AEG) undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy. It h...

    Authors: Sylvie Lorenzen, Carl von Gall, Annika Stange, Georg M Haag, Jürgen Weitz, Uwe Haberkorn, Florian Lordick, Wilko Weichert, Ulrich Abel, Jürgen Debus, Dirk Jäger and Marc W Münter
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:266
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  17. Detection of mutations by DNA sequencing can be facilitated by scanning methods to identify amplicons which may have mutations. Current scanning methods used for the detection of germline sequence variants are...

    Authors: Heather L Hondow, Stephen B Fox, Gillian Mitchell, Rodney J Scott, Victoria Beshay, Stephen Q Wong and Alexander Dobrovic
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:265
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  18. Although FOXO transcription factors may have an anti-angiogenic role, little is known about their role in tumor angiogenesis. The present study was performed to investigate the correlation between the constitu...

    Authors: Sue Youn Kim, Jiyeon Yoon, Young San Ko, Mee Soo Chang, Jong-Wan Park, Hee Eun Lee, Min A Kim, Ji Hun Kim, Woo Ho Kim and Byung Lan Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:264
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  19. Cervical cancer continues to be an important worldwide health problem for women. Up to 35% of patients who are diagnosed with and appropriately treated for cervical cancer will recur and treatment results are ...

    Authors: Emiliano Cocco, Joyce Varughese, Natalia Buza, Stefania Bellone, Michelle Glasgow, Marta Bellone, Paola Todeschini, Luisa Carrara, Dan-Arin Silasi, Masoud Azodi, Peter E Schwartz, Thomas J Rutherford, Sergio Pecorelli, Charles J Lockwood and Alessandro D Santin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:263
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  20. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) are breast cancer subtypes with an especially poor prognosis. 8-Hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) is a widely used marker of oxidative stre...

    Authors: Peeter Karihtala, Saila Kauppila, Ylermi Soini and Arja-Jukkola-Vuorinen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:262
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  22. Our objective was to measure myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) risk associated with radiation and/or chemotherapy breast cancer (BC) treatment.

    Authors: Henry G Kaplan, Judith A Malmgren and Mary K Atwood
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:260
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  23. Raf-1 kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) has been reported to negatively regulate signal kinases of major survival pathways. RKIP activity is modulated in part by phosphorylation on Serine 153 by protein kinase C...

    Authors: Sara Huerta-Yepez, Nam K Yoon, Angeles Hernandez-Cueto, Vei Mah, Clara M Rivera-Pazos, Devasis Chatterjee, Mario I Vega, Erin L Maresh, Steve Horvath, David Chia, Benjamin Bonavida and Lee Goodglick
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:259
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  24. Phospholipase C epsilon 1 (PLCE1) (an effector of Ras) belonging to the phospholipase family plays crucial roles in carcinogenesis and progression of several cancers, including squamous cell carcinoma of the h...

    Authors: Hongxia Ma, Li-E Wang, Zhensheng Liu, Erich M Sturgis and Qingyi Wei
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:258
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  25. Cancer screening rates in Korea for five cancer types have increased steadily since 2002. With regard to the life-time cancer screening rates in 2009 according to cancer sites, the second highest was breast ca...

    Authors: Mi Jin Park, Eun-Cheol Park, Kui Son Choi, Jae Kwan Jun and Hoo-Yeon Lee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:257
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  26. Recently we reported that activation of Epac1, an exchange protein activated by cAMP, increases melanoma cell migration via Ca 2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). G-protein βγ subunits (Gβγ) are known...

    Authors: Erdene Baljinnyam, Masanari Umemura, Mariana S De Lorenzo, Lai-Hua Xie, Martha Nowycky, Mizuka Iwatsubo, Suzie Chen, James S Goydos and Kousaku Iwatsubo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:256
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  27. Cladribine or 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CDA) is a well-known purine nucleoside analog with particular activity against lymphoproliferative disorders, such as hairy cell leukemia (HCL). Its benefits in multiple...

    Authors: Jian Ma, Shuiliang Wang, Ming Zhao, Xin-Sheng Deng, Choon-Kee Lee, Xiao-Dan Yu and Bolin Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:255
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  28. Aurora kinases play an essential role in orchestrating chromosome alignment, segregation and cytokinesis during mitotic progression, with both aurora-A and B frequently over-expressed in a variety of human mal...

    Authors: Martin Grundy, Claire Seedhouse, Nigel H Russell and Monica Pallis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:254
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  29. The ability of gene profiling to predict treatment response and prognosis in breast cancers has been demonstrated in many studies using DNA microarray analyses on RNA from fresh frozen tumor specimens. In cert...

    Authors: Al Muktafi Sadi, Dong-Yu Wang, Bruce J Youngson, Naomi Miller, Scott Boerner, Susan J Done and Wey L Leong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:253
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  30. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and prognostic value of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow of breast carcinoma patients with early disease, and to analyze this finding in relation t...

    Authors: Montserrat Solá, Mireia Margelí, Eva Castellá, Juan F Julian, Miquel Rull, Josep M Gubern, Antonio Mariscal, Agustí Barnadas and Manuel Fraile
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:252
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  31. The prognosis of most hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients is poor due to the high metastatic rate of the disease. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis is extremely urgent. The r...

    Authors: Jin Zheng, Yan Li, Jiandong Yang, Qiang Liu, Ming Shi, Rui Zhang, Hengjun Shi, Qinyou Ren, Ji Ma, Hang Guo, Yurong Tao, Yan Xue, Ning Jiang, Libo Yao and Wenchao Liu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:251
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  32. The economic costs of treating patients with metastatic breast cancer have been examined in several studies, but available estimates of economic burden are at least a decade old. In this study, we characterize...

    Authors: Montserrat Vera-Llonch, Derek Weycker, Andrew Glass, Sue Gao, Rohit Borker, Angie Qin and Gerry Oster
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:250
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  33. Radiation therapy is an essential modality in the treatment of breast cancer. Addition of radiotherapy to surgery has significantly increased local control and survival rates of the disease. However, radiother...

    Authors: Vasileios Askoxylakis, Alexandra D Jensen, Matthias F Häfner, Leonie Fetzner, Florian Sterzing, Joerg Heil, Christof Sohn, Johannes Hüsing, Uta Tiefenbacher, Frederik Wenz, Jürgen Debus and Holger Hof
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:249
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  34. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is the most crucial ErbB receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) family member in HER2-positive (refered to HER2-overexpressing) breast cancer which are dependent on or "...

    Authors: Leiping Wang, Qunling Zhang, Jian Zhang, Si Sun, Haiyi Guo, Zhen Jia, Biyun Wang, Zhimin Shao, Zhonghua Wang and Xichun Hu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:248
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  35. Molecular predictors of bevacizumab efficacy in colorectal cancer have not been identified yet. Specific VEGF polymorphisms may affect gene transcription and therefore indirectly influence the efficacy of bevaciz...

    Authors: Fotios Loupakis, Annamaria Ruzzo, Lisa Salvatore, Chiara Cremolini, Gianluca Masi, Paolo Frumento, Marta Schirripa, Vincenzo Catalano, Nadia Galluccio, Emanuele Canestrari, Bruno Vincenzi, Daniele Santini, Katia Bencardino, Vincenzo Ricci, Mariangela Manzoni, Marco Danova…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:247
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  36. The BRCA1 gene plays an important role in the maintenance of genomic stability. BRCA1 inactivation contributes to breast cancer tumorigenesis. An increasing number of transcription factors have been shown to regu...

    Authors: Yinghua Chen, Jinhua Xu, Stanley Borowicz, Cindy Collins, Dezheng Huo and Olufunmilayo I Olopade
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:246
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  37. Alterations towards a permissive stromal microenvironment provide important cues for tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis. In this study, Fibroblast activation protein (FAP), a serine protease selectively pr...

    Authors: Hyung-Ok Lee, Stefanie R Mullins, Janusz Franco-Barraza, Matthildi Valianou, Edna Cukierman and Jonathan D Cheng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:245
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  38. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is characterized by recurrent copy number alterations (CNAs) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH), which may have potential diagnostic and prognostic applications. Here, we ...

    Authors: Ingrid Cifola, Cristina Bianchi, Eleonora Mangano, Silvia Bombelli, Fabio Frascati, Ester Fasoli, Stefano Ferrero, Vitalba Di Stefano, Maria A Zipeto, Fulvio Magni, Stefano Signorini, Cristina Battaglia and Roberto A Perego
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:244
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  39. Heterozygosity of TP53 missense mutations is related to the phenomenon of the dominant-negative effect (DNE). To estimate the importance of the DNE of TP53 mutations, we analysed the percentage of cancer cases sh...

    Authors: Ewelina Stoczynska-Fidelus, Malgorzata Szybka, Sylwester Piaskowski, Michal Bienkowski, Krystyna Hulas-Bigoszewska, Mateusz Banaszczyk, Izabela Zawlik, Dorota Jesionek-Kupnicka, Radzislaw Kordek, Pawel P Liberski and Piotr Rieske
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:243
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  40. Recent refinements of lung MRI techniques have reduced the examination time and improved diagnostic sensitivity and specificity. We conducted a study to assess the feasibility of MRI for the detection of prima...

    Authors: Nai-Yuan Wu, Hui-Cheng Cheng, James S Ko, Yu-Chen Cheng, Po-Wei Lin, Wei-Chan Lin, Cheng-Yen Chang and Der-Ming Liou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:242
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  41. Because of the lack of suitable in vivo models of giant cell tumor of bone (GCT), little is known about its underlying fundamental pro-tumoral events, such as tumor growth, invasion, angiogenesis and metastasis. ...

    Authors: Maurice Balke, Anna Neumann, Károly Szuhai, Konstantin Agelopoulos, Christian August, Georg Gosheger, Pancras CW Hogendoorn, Nick Athanasou, Horst Buerger and Martin Hagedorn
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:241
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  43. A new lower-cost rapid-throughput human papillomavirus (HPV) test (careHPV, Qiagen, Gaithersburg, USA) has been shown to have high sensitivity for the detection of high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

    Authors: Ju-Fang Shi, Karen Canfell, Jie-Bin Lew, Fang-Hui Zhao, Rosa Legood, Yan Ning, Leonardo Simonella, Li Ma, Yoon-Jung Kang, Yong-Zhen Zhang, Megan A Smith, Jun-Feng Chen, Xiang-Xian Feng and You-Lin Qiao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:239
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  44. Increased cyclooxygenase activity promotes progression of colorectal cancer, but the mechanisms behind COX-2 induction remain elusive. This study was therefore aimed to define external cell signaling and trans...

    Authors: Annika Gustafsson Asting, Helena Carén, Marianne Andersson, Christina Lönnroth, Kristina Lagerstedt and Kent Lundholm
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:238
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  45. Despite evidence that physical activity improves the health and well-being of prostate cancer survivors, many men do not engage in sufficient levels of activity. The primary aim of this study (ENGAGE) is to de...

    Authors: Patricia M Livingston, Jo Salmon, Kerry S Courneya, Cadeyrn J Gaskin, Melinda Craike, Mari Botti, Suzanne Broadbent and Bridie Kent
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:237
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Uterine sarcomas are relatively rare tumors that account for approximately 1-3% of female genital tract malignancies and between 4-9% of uterine cancers. Less than 8% of all cases are Mullerian adenosarcoma, a...

    Authors: Tito Silvio Patrelli, Salvatore Gizzo, Stefania Di Gangi, Giorgia Guidi, Mario Rondinelli and Giovanni Battista Nardelli
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:236
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Bladder cancer is a significant healthcare problem in the United States of America with a high recurrence rate. Early detection of bladder cancer is essential for removing the tumor with preservation of the bl...

    Authors: Antara Datta, Martin E Adelson, Yakov Mogilevkin, Eli Mordechai, Abraham A Sidi and Jason P Trama
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:234
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  49. Recent epidemiologic, genetic, and molecular studies suggest infection and inflammation initiate certain cancers, including cancers of the prostate. Over the past several years, our group has been studying how...

    Authors: Cydney Urbanek, Steve Goodison, Myron Chang, Stacy Porvasnik, Noburo Sakamoto, Chen-zhong Li, Susan K Boehlein and Charles J Rosser
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:233
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  50. Long-term gene silencing throughout cell division is generally achieved by DNA methylation and other epigenetic processes. Aberrant DNA methylation is now widely recognized to be associated with cancer and oth...

    Authors: Mercedes Dávalos-Salas, Mayra Furlan-Magaril, Edgar González-Buendía, Christian Valdes-Quezada, Erandi Ayala-Ortega and Félix Recillas-Targa
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:232
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