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  1. Polysaccharides extracted from the Phellinus linteus (PL) mushroom are known to possess anti-tumor effects. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the anti-tumor properties of PL remain to be explored....

    Authors: Kyoung-Sub Song, Ge Li, Jong-Seok Kim, Kaipeng Jing, Tae-Dong Kim, Jin-Pyo Kim, Seung-Bo Seo, Jae-Kuk Yoo, Hae-Duck Park, Byung-Doo Hwang, Kyu Lim and Wan-Hee Yoon
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:307
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  3. MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP) is an autosomal recessive form of intestinal polyposis predisposing to colorectal carcinoma. High resolution melting analysis (HRMA) is a mutation scanning method that allows det...

    Authors: Rossella Tricarico, Francesca Crucianelli, Antonio Alvau, Claudio Orlando, Roberta Sestini, Francesco Tonelli, Rosa Valanzano and Maurizio Genuardi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:305
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  4. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in women in the United States. During the advanced stages of disease, many breast cancer patients suffer from bone metastasis. These metastases...

    Authors: Anguraj Sadanandam, Mitsuru Futakuchi, Costas A Lyssiotis, William J Gibb and Rakesh K Singh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:304
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  5. Leptin is a pleiotropic hormone whose mitogenic and angiogenic activity has been implicated in the development and progression of several malignancies, including brain tumors. In human brain cancer, especially...

    Authors: Rita Ferla, Maria Bonomi, Laszlo Otvos Jr and Eva Surmacz
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:303
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  6. Fatty acid binding proteins (FABP) play an important role in carcinogenesis. Modified FABP expression patterns were described for prostate, bladder and for renal cell carcinoma. Studies on metabolic relationsh...

    Authors: Angelika Tölle, Saba Suhail, Monika Jung, Klaus Jung and Carsten Stephan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:302
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  7. Multiple myeloma is an incurable disease requiring the development of effective therapies which can be used clinically. We have elucidated the potential for manipulating the cAMP signaling pathway as a target ...

    Authors: Virginie Follin-Arbelet, Peter O Hofgaard, Harald Hauglin, Soheil Naderi, Anders Sundan, Rune Blomhoff, Bjarne Bogen and Heidi K Blomhoff
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:301
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  8. Emmprin, a glycoprotein containing two Ig domains, is enriched on tumor cell surfaces and stimulates matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) production by adjacent stromal cells. Its first Ig domain (ECI) contains the ...

    Authors: Takehito Kawakami, Tetsuro Sameshima, Hironobu Hojo, Kaori Koga, Yoshiaki Nakahara, Bryan P Toole, Junji Suzumiya, Yasunori Okada, Akinori Iwasaki and Kazuki Nabeshima
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:300
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  9. A breast cancer prognostic tool should ideally be applicable to all types of invasive breast lesions. A number of studies have shown histopathological grade to be an independent prognostic factor in breast can...

    Authors: André Albergaria, Sara Ricardo, Fernanda Milanezi, Vítor Carneiro, Isabel Amendoeira, Daniella Vieira, Jorge Cameselle-Teijeiro and Fernando Schmitt
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:299
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  10. Improving the coordination of cancer care is a priority area for service improvement. However, quality improvement initiatives are hindered by the lack of accurate and reliable measures of this aspect of cance...

    Authors: Jane M Young, Jennifer Walsh, Phyllis N Butow, Michael J Solomon and Joanne Shaw
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:298
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  11. Since transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the upper urinary tract is a relatively uncommon malignancy, the role of adjuvant radiotherapy is unknown.

    Authors: Bing Chen, Zhao-Chong Zeng, Guo-Min Wang, Li Zhang, Zong-Ming Lin, Li-An Sun, Tong-Yu Zhu, Li-Li Wu, Jian-Ying Zhang and Yuan Ji
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:297
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  12. Systemic therapy for cancer metastatic lesions is difficult and generally renders a poor clinical response. Structural analogs of cisplatin, the most widely used synthetic metal complexes, show toxic side-effe...

    Authors: Fabiana A Serrano, Alisson L Matsuo, Priscila T Monteforte, Alexandre Bechara, Soraya S Smaili, Débora P Santana, Tiago Rodrigues, Felipe V Pereira, Luis S Silva, Joel Machado Jr, Edson L Santos, João B Pesquero, Rafael M Martins, Luiz R Travassos, Antonio CF Caires and Elaine G Rodrigues
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:296
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  13. Data on sequential therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and intrinsic resistance to receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (rTKI) treatment remains vague.

    Authors: Jonas Busch, Christoph Seidel, Steffen Weikert, Ingmar Wolff, Carsten Kempkensteffen, Lisa Weinkauf, Stefan Hinz, Ahmed Magheli, Kurt Miller and Viktor Grünwald
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:295
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  14. In ovarian cancer, the reported rate of EGFR expression varies between 4-70% depending on assessment method and data on patient outcome are conflicting. Methods: In this study we investigated EGFR expression a...

    Authors: Aurelia Noske, Michael Schwabe, Wilko Weichert, Silvia Darb-Esfahani, Ann-Christin Buckendahl, Jalid Sehouli, Elena I Braicu, Jan Budczies, Manfred Dietel and Carsten Denkert
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:294
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  16. Molecular classification of breast cancer is an important prognostic factor. The distribution of molecular subtypes of breast cancer and their prognostic value has not been well documented in Asians.

    Authors: Yinghao Su, Ying Zheng, Wei Zheng, Kai Gu, Zhi Chen, Guoliang Li, Qiuyin Cai, Wei Lu and Xiao Ou Shu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:292
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  17. To evaluate the association between polymorphisms involved in DNA repair and oxidative stress genes and mean dose to whole breast on acute skin reactions (erythema) in breast cancer (BC) patients following sin...

    Authors: Elisabetta Falvo, Lidia Strigari, Gennaro Citro, Carolina Giordano, Stefano Arcangeli, Antonella Soriani, Daniela D'Alessio, Paola Muti, Giovanni Blandino, Isabella Sperduti and Paola Pinnarò
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:291
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  18. CD44, a hyaluronan (HA) receptor, is a multistructural and multifunctional cell surface molecule involved in cell proliferation, cell differentiation, cell migration, angiogenesis, presentation of cytokines, c...

    Authors: Xin Jian Fang, Hua Jiang, Xv Peng Zhao and Wei Mei Jiang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:290
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  19. Platinum agents have shown demonstrable activity in the treatment of patients with platinum resistant, recurrent ovarian cancer when delivered in a "dose-dense" fashion. However, the development of thrombocyto...

    Authors: Rohini Sharma, Janet Graham, Sarah Blagden and Hani Gabra
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:289
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  20. XELOX (capecitabine + oxaliplatin) and FOLFOX 4 (5-FU + folinic acid + oxaliplatin) have shown similar improvements in survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC). A US cost-minimization stud...

    Authors: Vicki C Tse, Wai Tong Ng, Victor Lee, Anne WM Lee, Daniel TT Chua, June Chau and Sarah M McGhee
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:288
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  21. Weight loss in overweight or obese breast cancer patients is associated with an improved prognosis for long term survival. However, it is not clear whether the macronutrient composition of the chosen weight lo...

    Authors: Scot M Sedlacek, Mary C Playdon, Pamela Wolfe, John N McGinley, Mark R Wisthoff, Elizabeth A Daeninck, Weiqin Jiang, Zongjian Zhu and Henry J Thompson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:287
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. The utility of circulating angiogenic cytokines (CAC) as biomarkers in pancreatic cancer has not been clarified yet. We investigated the expression and prognostic associations of seven CAC in patients with pan...

    Authors: Nuh N Rahbari, Thomas Schmidt, Christine S Falk, Ulf Hinz, Magdalene Herber, Ulrich Bork, Markus W Büchler, Jürgen Weitz and Moritz Koch
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:286
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  23. Extravasation of circulating cancer cells is a key event of metastatic dissemination that is initiated by the adhesion of cancer cells to endothelial cells. It requires interactions between adhesion receptors ...

    Authors: Nicolas Porquet, Andrée Poirier, François Houle, Anne-Laure Pin, Stéphanie Gout, Pierre-Luc Tremblay, Éric R Paquet, Roscoe Klinck, François A Auger and Jacques Huot
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:285
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  24. Adherence to pharmacological therapy is a complex and multi-factorial issue that can substantially alter the outcome of treatment. It has been shown that cancer patients, especially when using long-term medica...

    Authors: Lonneke Timmers, Christel CLM Boons, Dirk Mangnus, Josee E Moes, Eleonora L Swart, Epie Boven, Egbert F Smit and Jacqueline G Hugtenburg
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:284
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  25. Using a longitudinal design, aim of this study was to investigate the relation between mental adjustment to cancer and anxiety, depression, health-related quality of life (HRQL) and survival in patients treate...

    Authors: Mia Johansson, Anna Rydén and Caterina Finizia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:283
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  26. France stands among high-risk areas for colorectal cancer. Different trends in CRC incidence are reported around the world. The aim of this study was to provide temporal trends in CRC incidence over a 30-year ...

    Authors: Marion Chauvenet, Vanessa Cottet, Côme Lepage, Valérie Jooste, Jean Faivre and Anne-Marie Bouvier
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:282
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  32. 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:

  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. 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
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. 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:

  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

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