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  1. Upregulation of endogenous angiostatin levels may constitute a novel anti-angiogenic, and therefore anti-tumor therapy. In vitro, angiostatin generation is a two-step process, starting with the conversion of plas...

    Authors: Renate RJ de Groot-Besseling, Theo JM Ruers, Iris L Lamers-Elemans, Cathy N Maass, Robert MW de Waal and Johan R Westphal
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:149
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  2. Studies indicate that thymidylate synthase (TS) expression, p53 and mismatch repair status have potential to influence colorectal cancer (CRC) outcome. There is, however, little data on the inter-relationship ...

    Authors: Sanjay Popat, Richard Wort and Richard S Houlston
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:150
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  3. Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common cause of early casualty from malignant disease in western countries. The heterogeneous nature of these cells has been identified by histochemical and microarray bi...

    Authors: Sandra YY Fok, Jeffrey S Rubin, Fiona Pixley, John Condeelis, Filip Braet and Lilian L Soon
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:151
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2007 7:32

  4. The role of exogenous hormone exposures in the development of meningioma is unclear, but these exposures have been proposed as one hypothesis to explain the over-abundance of such tumors in women.

    Authors: Brian Custer, WT Longstreth Jr, Leslie E Phillips, Thomas D Koepsell and Gerald Van Belle
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:152
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  5. There is a lack of clinical data on the validity of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was to compare the impact of the adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy reg...

    Authors: Arturas Inciura, Andrius Simavicius, Elona Juozaityte, Juozas Kurtinaitis, Ruta Nadisauskiene, Eimantas Svedas and Skirmantas Kajenas
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:153
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  6. TSPY is a repeated gene mapped to the critical region harboring the gonadoblastoma locus on the Y chromosome (GBY), the only oncogenic locus on this male-specific chromosome. Elevated levels of TSPY have been ...

    Authors: Shane W Oram, Xing Xing Liu, Tin-Lap Lee, Wai-Yee Chan and Yun-Fai Chris Lau
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:154
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  7. GSAO (4-[N-[S-glutathionylacetyl]amino] phenylarsenoxide) is a hydrophilic derivative of the protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor phenylarsine oxide (PAO). It inhibits angiogenesis and tumour growth in mouse...

    Authors: Verity A Cadd, Philip J Hogg, Adrian L Harris and Stephan M Feller
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:155
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  8. Breast cancer in men is an infrequent occurrence, accounting for ~1% of all breast tumors with an incidence of about 1:100,000. The relative rarity of male breast cancer (MBC) limits our understanding of the e...

    Authors: GianMaria Miolo, Lara Della Puppa, Manuela Santarosa, Clelia De Giacomi, Andrea Veronesi, Ettore Bidoli, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Alessandra Viel and Riccardo Dolcetti
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:156
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  9. It is widely accepted that vulvar carcinoma with a depth of invasion of less than one millimeter is sufficiently treated by vulvectomy or wide local excision without inguinal lymphadenectomy.

    Authors: Jutta Sidor, Raihana Diallo-Danebrock, Elke Eltze and Ralph J Lellé
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:157
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  10. C/EBPα is a transcription factor essential for terminal differentiation of several cell types. It has not known if C/EBPα protein is expressed and functions in the prostate gland.

    Authors: Hong Yin, Hanna S Radomska, Daniel G Tenen and Jonathan Glass
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:158
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  11. Previous studies on bladder cancer have shown nodal involvement to be an independent indicator of prognosis and survival. This study aimed at developing an objective method for detection of nodal metastasis fr...

    Authors: Anirban P Mitra, Arpit A Almal, Ben George, David W Fry, Peter F Lenehan, Vincenzo Pagliarulo, Richard J Cote, Ram H Datar and William P Worzel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:159
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  12. The risk of metastasis and the survival in patients with primary extremity soft tissue sarcomas is worse when tumour size is large and the grade of malignancy is high. Such tumours may receive chemotherapy and...

    Authors: Benedikt Leidinger, Thomas Heyse, Andreas Schuck, Horst Buerger, Philipp Mommsen, Thomas Bruening, Susanne Fuchs and Georg Gosheger
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:160
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  13. In multiple myeloma (MM), increased neoangiogenesis contributes to tumor growth and disease progression. Increased levels of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) contribute to neoangiogenesis in MM, and, import...

    Authors: Marc Braunstein, Tayfun Özçelik, Sevgi Bağişlar, Varsha Vakil, Eric LP Smith, Kezhi Dai, Cemaliye B Akyerli and Olcay A Batuman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:161
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  14. In selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis from colorectal cancer prognosis can be improved by hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) after cytoreductive surgery. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Joerg OW Pelz, J Doerfer, A Dimmler, W Hohenberger and T Meyer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:162
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  15. Although the human β-defensins hBDs today seem to have diverse functional activities in innate antimicrobial immunity, a few reports also indicated an altered expression of these antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) ...

    Authors: T Gambichler, M Skrygan, J Huyn, FG Bechara, M Sand, P Altmeyer and A Kreuter
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:163
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  16. The association of nipple discharge with breast carcinoma has resulted in numerous women undergoing exploratory surgery to exclude malignancy. The aim of this study was to determine whether pre-operative facto...

    Authors: Mary F Dillon, Shah R Mohd Nazri, Shaaira Nasir, Enda W McDermott, Denis Evoy, Thomas B Crotty, Niall O'Higgins and Arnold DK Hill
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:164
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  17. To evaluate the expression and test the clinical significance of the epithelial cellular adhesion molecule (Ep-CAM) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to check the suitability of esophageal SCC patien...

    Authors: Nikolas H Stoecklein, Annika Siegmund, Peter Scheunemann, Andreas M Luebke, Andreas Erbersdobler, Pablo E Verde, Claus F Eisenberger, Matthias Peiper, Alexander Rehders, Jan Schulte am Esch, Wolfram Trudo Knoefel and Stefan B Hosch
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:165
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  18. Activation of caspase-9 in response to treatment with cytotoxic drugs is inhibited in NSCLC cells, which may contribute to the clinical resistance to chemotherapy shown in this type of tumor. The aim of the pr...

    Authors: Agnieszka Checinska, Giuseppe Giaccone, Bas SJ Hoogeland, Carlos G Ferreira, Jose A Rodriguez and Frank AE Kruyt
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:166
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  19. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the most common cancers in southern China. In addition to environmental factors such as Epstein-Barr virus infection and diet, genetic susceptibility has been reported ...

    Authors: Yun Cao, Xiao-Ping Miao, Ma-Yan Huang, Ling Deng, Li-Fu Hu, Ingemar Ernberg, Yi-Xin Zeng, Dong-Xin Lin and Jian-Yong Shao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:167
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  20. The presence of cancer makes it difficult to predict the progress of pregnancy and can be deleterious to the maternal-foetal relationship. Apoptosis may affect a range of placental functions and result in the ...

    Authors: Mércia Tancredo Toledo, Gislaine Ventrucci and Maria Cristina Cintra Gomes Marcondes
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:168
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  21. The occurrence of skeletal muscle metastases is a very rare event. Only two cases of late skeletal muscle recurrence from cervical cancer have been documented until now.

    Authors: Gabriella Ferrandina, Vanda Salutari, Antonia Testa, Gian Franco Zannoni, Marco Petrillo and Giovanni Scambia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:169
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Estrogen/progestin replacement therapy (EPRT), alcohol consumption, physical activity, and breast-feeding duration differ from other factors associated with breast cancer in being immediately modifiable by the...

    Authors: Christina A Clarke, David M Purdie and Sally L Glaser
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:170
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  23. Abnormal levels of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) have been observed in many human neoplasms including breast cancer and it has been demonstrated that they have both prognostic and therapeutic implications. In thi...

    Authors: Mariarita Romanucci, Alessia Marinelli, Giuseppe Sarli and Leonardo Della Salda
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:171
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  24. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO) is a cytotoxic anti-CD33 monoclonal antibody that has given promising preliminary results in adult myeloid CD33+ AML. We conducted a retrospective multicenter study of 12 children tr...

    Authors: Benoit Brethon, Anne Auvrignon, Claire Galambrun, Karima Yakouben, Thierry Leblanc, Yves Bertrand, Guy Leverger and André Baruchel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:172
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  25. A cohort study was conducted to examine the role of genetic polymorphisms in three estrogen metabolizing enzymes (COMT, CYP1A1, CYP1B1) and the two estrogen receptors (ESR1, ESR2) in the progression of benign bre...

    Authors: Lisa Gallicchio, Sonja I Berndt, Meghan A McSorley, Craig J Newschaffer, Lucy W Thuita, Pedram Argani, Sandra C Hoffman and Kathy J Helzlsouer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:173
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  26. The effect of current therapies in improving the survival of lung cancer patients remains far from satisfactory. It is consequently desirable to find more appropriate therapeutic opportunities based on informe...

    Authors: Akihiko Gemma, Cai Li, Yuka Sugiyama, Kuniko Matsuda, Yoko Seike, Seiji Kosaihira, Yuji Minegishi, Rintaro Noro, Michiya Nara, Masahiro Seike, Akinobu Yoshimura, Aki Shionoya, Akiko Kawakami, Naoki Ogawa, Haruka Uesaka and Shoji Kudoh
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:174
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  27. The risk of sporadic colorectal cancer is mainly associated with lifestyle factors and may be modulated by several genetic factors of low penetrance. Genetic variants represented by single nucleotide polymorph...

    Authors: Camilla F Skjelbred, Mona Sæbø, Bjørn A Nexø, Håkan Wallin, Inger-Lise Hansteen, Ulla Vogel and Elin H Kure
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:175
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  28. It has recently been shown that overexpression of the serine protease, matriptase, in transgenic mice causes a dramatically increased frequency of carcinoma formation. Overexpression of HAI-1 and matriptase to...

    Authors: Lotte K Vogel, Mona Sæbø, Camilla F Skjelbred, Kathrine Abell, Esben DK Pedersen, Ulla Vogel and Elin H Kure
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:176
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  29. Neuroblastoma is a frequently lethal pediatric cancer in which MYCN genomic amplification is highly correlated with aggressive disease. Deregulated MYC genes require co-operative lesions to foster tumourigenesis ...

    Authors: Vincent Dam, Brian T Morgan, Pavel Mazanek and Michael D Hogarty
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:177
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  30. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare malignancy in most parts of the world but is common in southern China. A recent report from the Hong Kong Cancer Registry, a high-risk area for NPC in southern China, s...

    Authors: Wei-Hua Jia, Qi-Hong Huang, Jian Liao, Weimin Ye, YY Shugart, Qing Liu, Li-Zhen Chen, Yan-Hua Li, Xiao Lin, Fa-Lin Wen, Hans-Olov Adami, Yi Zeng and Yi-Xin Zeng
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:178
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  31. The primary aim of treatment of a patient who has developed metastatic disease is palliation. The objectives of the current study are to describe and quantify the clinical management of women with metastatic b...

    Authors: Klaartje Manders, Lonneke V van de Poll-Franse, Geert-Jan Creemers, Gerard Vreugdenhil, Maurice JC van der Sangen, Grard AP Nieuwenhuijzen, Rudi MH Roumen and Adri C Voogd
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:179
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  32. A loss of heterozygosity (LOH) represents a unilateral chromosomal loss that reduces the dose of highly repetitive Alu, L1, and LTR retroelements. The aim of this study was to determine if the LOH events can affe...

    Authors: Young-Ho Kim, Seung-Jin Hong, Yu-Chae Jung, Sung-Ja Kim, Eun-Joo Seo, Sang-Wook Choi and Mun-Gan Rhyu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:180
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  33. Cyclooxygenase (COX) is the rate-limiting enzyme that catalyzes the formation of prostaglandins. The inducible isoform of COX (COX-2) is highly expressed in aggressive metastatic breast cancers and may play a ...

    Authors: Teri L Larkins, Marchele Nowell, Shailesh Singh and Gary L Sanford
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:181
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  34. Cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2), the key enzyme in the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostaglandins, is involved in critical steps of tumor onset and progression, and is a strong predictor of chemotherapy resist...

    Authors: Gabriella Ferrandina, Franco O Ranelletti, Enrica Martinelli, Amelia Paglia, Gian Franco Zannoni and Giovanni Scambia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:182
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  35. In most patients with ovarian cancer, diagnosis occurs after the tumour has disseminated beyond the ovaries. In these cases, post-surgical taxane/platinum combination chemotherapy is the "gold standard". Howev...

    Authors: Jürgen Sonnemann, Jennifer Gänge, Sabine Pilz, Christine Stötzer, Ralf Ohlinger, Antje Belau, Gerd Lorenz and James F Beck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:183
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  37. Carcinosarcoma of the colon is a rare histopathological entity with uncertain histogenesis, that shows both epithelial and mesenchymal malignant differentiation. Carcinosarcoma rarely affects the gastrointesti...

    Authors: Andrea Ambrosini-Spaltro, Valentina Vaira, Paola Braidotti, Marco PL Rovati, Stefano Ferrero and Silvano Bosari
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:185
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  39. Recent experimental studies have shown that Bcl-2, which has been established as a key player in the control of apoptosis, plays a role in regulating the cell cycle and proliferation. The aim of this study was...

    Authors: Shinichi Tsutsui, Kazuhiro Yasuda, Kosuke Suzuki, Hideya Takeuchi, Takashi Nishizaki, Hidefumi Higashi and Shoichi Era
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:187
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  40. Interleukins and cytokines play an important role in the pathogenesis of many solid cancers. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified in cytokine genes are thought to influence the expression ...

    Authors: SP Balasubramanian, IAF Azmy, SE Higham, AG Wilson, SS Cross, A Cox, NJ Brown and MW Reed
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:188
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  41. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with ovarian cancer and may impact the prognosis of ovarian cancer. Our aims were to examine the extent of disease at the time of the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and ...

    Authors: Mette S Tetsche, Mette Nørgaard, Lars Pedersen, Timothy L Lash and Henrik T Sørensen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:189
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  42. Extensive disease of cholangiocarcinoma (CC) determines the overall outcome and limits curative resection. Despite chemotherapy, which has been introduced to improve the outcome of biliary tract malignancies, ...

    Authors: Martin F Sprinzl, Carl C Schimanski, Markus Moehler, Simin Schadmand-Fischer, Peter R Galle and Stephan Kanzler
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:190
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  43. The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) is a transcription factor that regulates adipogenic differentiation and glucose homeostasis. Spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT) and ornithine ...

    Authors: Michele Linsalata, Romina Giannini, Maria Notarnicola and Aldo Cavallini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:191
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  44. The homeobox gene HEX is expressed in several cell types during different phases of animal development. It encodes for a protein localized in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. During early mouse development,...

    Authors: Cinzia Puppin, Fabio Puglisi, Lucia Pellizzari, Guidalberto Manfioletti, Marta Pestrin, Maura Pandolfi, Andrea Piga, Carla Di Loreto and Giuseppe Damante
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:192
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  45. Distant spread from breast cancer is commonly found in bones, lungs, liver and central nervous system. Metastatic involvement of peritoneum and retroperitoneum is unusual and unexpected.

    Authors: G Franceschini, A Manno, A Mulè, A Verbo, G Rizzo, D Sermoneta, L Petito, P D'alba, C Maggiore, D Terribile, R Masetti and C Coco
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:193
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  46. Young age remains a controversial issue as a prognostic factor in breast cancer. Debate includes patients from different parts of the world. Almost 50% of patients with breast cancer seen at the American Unive...

    Authors: Nagi S El Saghir, Muhieddine Seoud, Mazen K Khalil, Maya Charafeddine, Ziad K Salem, Fady B Geara and Ali I Shamseddine
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:194
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  47. The chemokine stromal derived factor-1 (SDF-1 or CXCL12) and its receptor CXCR4 have been demonstrated to be crucial for the homing of stem cells and prostate cancers to the marrow. While screening prostate ca...

    Authors: AM Havens, Y Jung, YX Sun, J Wang, RB Shah, HJ Bühring, KJ Pienta and RS Taichman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:195
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  48. Large randomised clinical trials and systematic reviews substantiate that tamoxifen is ineffective in improving survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, a recent report suggested that...

    Authors: Ciro Gallo, Ermelinda De Maio, Massimo Di Maio, Giuseppe Signoriello, Bruno Daniele, Sandro Pignata, Annalisa Annunziata and Francesco Perrone
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:196
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  49. There is still much debate about the best adjuvant therapy after surgery for endometrial cancer (EC) and there are no current guidelines. Radiotherapy (RT) alone does not seem to improve overall survival. We i...

    Authors: Giorgia Mangili, Patrizia De Marzi, Saverio Beatrice, Emanuela Rabaiotti, Riccardo Viganò, Luigi Frigerio, Cinzia Gentile and Ferruccio Fazio
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:198
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  50. Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) is a metalloprotein enzyme that belongs to the acid phosphatases and is known to be expressed by osteoclasts. It has already been investigated as a marker of bone met...

    Authors: A Honig, L Rieger, M Kapp, M Krockenberger, M Eck, J Dietl and U Kämmerer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2006 6:199
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