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  1. Alterations in the host cellular immune response allow persistent infections with High-Risk Human Papillomavirus (HR-HPV) and development of premalignant cervical lesions and cervical cancer (CC). Variations o...

    Authors: K. Torres-Poveda, A. I. Burguete-García, M. Bahena-Román, R. Méndez-Martínez, M. A. Zurita-Díaz, G. López-Estrada, K. Delgado-Romero, O. Peralta-Zaragoza, V. H. Bermúdez-Morales, D. Cantú, A. García-Carrancá and V. Madrid-Marina
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:330
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  2. The synthesis of specific, potent progesterone antagonists adds potential agents to the breast cancer prevention and treatment armamentarium. The identification of individuals who will benefit from these agent...

    Authors: Susan E. Clare, Akash Gupta, MiRan Choi, Manish Ranjan, Oukseub Lee, Jun Wang, David Z. Ivancic, J. Julie Kim and Seema A. Khan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:326
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  3. Transarterial chemoembolization is one of the most widely accepted interventional treatment options for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Still there is a lack of a standard protocol regarding the injecte...

    Authors: Thomas J. Vogl, Elsie Oppermann, Jun Qian, Ulli Imlau, Andreas Tran, Yousef Hamidavi, Huedayi Korkusuz, Wolf Otto Bechstein, Nour-Eldin Abdel-Rehim Nour-Eldin, Tatjana Gruber-Rouh, Renate Hammerstingl and Nagy Naguib Naeem Naguib
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:325
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  4. Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare disorders associated with malignant tumours, which are triggered by autoimmune reactions. Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is the PNS type most ...

    Authors: Yaofeng Zhu, Shouzhen Chen, Songyu Chen, Jing Song, Fan Chen, Hu Guo, Zhenhua Shang, Yong Wang, Changkuo Zhou and Benkang Shi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:324
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  5. Urinary, sexual and anorectal sequelae are frequent after rectal cancer surgery and were found to be related to intraoperative neurogenic impairment. Neuromonitoring methods have been developed to identify and...

    Authors: D. W. Kauff, K Kronfeld, S Gorbulev, D Wachtlin, H Lang and W Kneist
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:323
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. The incidence of Cholangiocellular Carcinoma (CCA) is increasing in the western world. The tumour has a high proportion of desmoplastic stroma and is correlated with a worse prognosis when cancer associated my...

    Authors: Nils Heits, Tillmann Heinze, Alexander Bernsmeier, Jannik Kerber, Charlotte Hauser, Thomas Becker, Holger Kalthoff, Jan-Hendrik Egberts and Felix Braun
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:322
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  7. Helicobacter pylori is an important pathogenic factor in gastric carcinogenesis. Angiogenesis (i.e., the growth of new blood vessels) is closely associated with the incidence and development of gastric cancer. Ou...

    Authors: Ningning Liu, Ning Zhou, Ni Chai, Xuan Liu, Haili Jiang, Qiong Wu and Qi Li
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:321
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. A high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) may be related to increased mortality in patients with lung, colorectal, stomach, liver, and pancreatic cancer. To date, the utility of NLR to predict the response t...

    Authors: Yi Chen, Kai Chen, Xiaoyun Xiao, Yan Nie, Shaohua Qu, Chang Gong, Fengxi Su and Erwei Song
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:320
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  9. Ovarian function suppression (OFS) has been shown to be effective as adjuvant endocrine therapy in premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. However, it is currently unclear if addition...

    Authors: Hyun-Ah Kim, Sei Hyun Ahn, Seok Jin Nam, Seho Park, Jungsil Ro, Seock-Ah Im, Yong Sik Jung, Jung Han Yoon, Min Hee Hur, Yoon Ji Choi, Soo-Jung Lee, Joon Jeong, Se-Heon Cho, Sung Yong Kim, Min Hyuk Lee, Lee Su Kim…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:319
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  10. Often curative treatment for locally advanced resectable esophageal or gastro-esophageal junctional cancer consists of concurrent neoadjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy followed by surgery. Currently, one o...

    Authors: Mathieu Messager, Xavier Mirabel, Emmanuelle Tresch, Amaury Paumier, Véronique Vendrely, Laetitia Dahan, Olivier Glehen, Frederique Vasseur, Thomas Lacornerie, Guillaume Piessen, Farid El Hajbi, William B. Robb, Stéphanie Clisant, Andrew Kramar, Christophe Mariette and Antoine Adenis
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:318
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  11. We have previously demonstrated that the hydroxylated biphenyl compound D6 (3E,3′E)-4,4′-(5,5′,6,6′-tetramethoxy-[1,1′-biphenyl]-3,3′-diyl)bis(but-3-en-2-one), a structural analogue of curcumin, exerts a stron...

    Authors: Marina Pisano, Antonio Palomba, Alessandro Tanca, Daniela Pagnozzi, Sergio Uzzau, Maria Filippa Addis, Maria Antonietta Dettori, Davide Fabbri, Giuseppe Palmieri and Carla Rozzo
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:317
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  12. The BRM and BRG1 tumor suppressor genes are mutually exclusive ATPase subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex. The human adrenal carcinoma SW13 cell line can switch between a subtype which express...

    Authors: McKale R. Davis, Juliane J. Daggett, Agnes S. Pascual, Jessica M. Lam, Kathryn J. Leyva, Kimbal E. Cooper and Elizabeth E. Hull
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:316
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  13. MicroRNA-663a expression is downregulated in several tumors. However, its functions and mechanisms in human non-small cell lung (NSCLC) cancer remain obscure. The present study aimed to identify the expression...

    Authors: Yi Zhang, Xiaoman Xu, Meng Zhang, Xin Wang, Xue Bai, Hui Li, Liang Kan, Yong Zhou, Huiyan Niu and Ping He
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:315
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  14. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia was always referred as a unique cancer due to the apparent independence from tumor suppressors’ deletions/mutations in the early stages of the disease. However, it is now well document...

    Authors: Sabrina Crivellaro, Giovanna Carrà, Cristina Panuzzo, Riccardo Taulli, Angelo Guerrasio, Giuseppe Saglio and Alessandro Morotti
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:314
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Hyaluronan is a large extracellular matrix molecule involved in several biological processes such as proliferation, migration and invasion. In many cancers, hyaluronan synthesis is altered, which implicates di...

    Authors: Mari Poukka, Andrey Bykachev, Hanna Siiskonen, Kristiina Tyynelä-Korhonen, Päivi Auvinen, Sanna Pasonen-Seppänen and Reijo Sironen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:313
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  16. Oral cancer malignancy consists of uncontrolled division of cells primarily in and around the floor of the oral cavity, gingiva, oropharynx, lower lip and base of the tongue. According to GLOBOCAN 2012 report,...

    Authors: Muraleedharan Parvathy, Sreeharshan Sreeja, Rakesh Kumar and Madhavan Radhakrishna Pillai
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16(Suppl 1):293
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 1

  17. BRCA1 is a main component of homologous recombination and induces resistance to platinum in preclinical models. It has been studied as a potential predictive marker in lung cancer. Several proteins modulate th...

    Authors: Laura Bonanno, Carlota Costa, Margarita Majem, Jose-Javier Sanchez, Ignacio Rodriguez, Ana Gimenez-Capitan, Miquel Angel Molina-Vila, Alain Vergnenegre, Bartomeu Massuti, Adolfo Favaretto, Massimo Rugge, Cinta Pallares, Miquel Taron and Rafael Rosell
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:312
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  18. Serving military personnel are more likely to smoke, and to smoke more heavily, than civilians. The aim of our study was to examine whether veterans have an increased risk of a range of smoking-related cancers...

    Authors: Beverly P. Bergman, Daniel F. Mackay, David Morrison and Jill P. Pell
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:311
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  19. Glioblastoma multiforme is a highly aggressive brain tumor with a poor prognosis, and advances in treatment have led to only marginal increases in overall survival. We and others have shown previously that the...

    Authors: Danielle M. Lussier, Eric C. Woolf, John L. Johnson, Kenneth S. Brooks, Joseph N. Blattman and Adrienne C. Scheck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:310
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  20. Pancreatic cancer is recognized as one of the most fatal tumors due to its aggressiveness and resistance to therapy. Statins were previously shown to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells via various signalin...

    Authors: K. Vanova, S. Boukalova, H. Gbelcova, L. Muchova, J. Neuzil, R. Gurlich, T. Ruml and L. Vitek
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:309
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  21. Small molecule inhibitor of tyrosine kinase activity, compound SU11274, was reported to have antitumorigenic and antimetastatic effect in melanoma. In this study, we evaluated, whether similar effect could be ...

    Authors: Lucia Kucerova, Lucia Demkova, Svetlana Skolekova, Roman Bohovic and Miroslava Matuskova
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:308
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  22. The development of metastases is a negative prognostic parameter for the clinical outcome of breast cancer. Bone constitutes the first site of distant metastases for many affected women. The purpose of this re...

    Authors: Joachim Diessner, Manfred Wischnewsky, Tanja Stüber, Roland Stein, Mathias Krockenberger, Sebastian Häusler, Wolfgang Janni, Rolf Kreienberg, Maria Blettner, Lukas Schwentner, Achim Wöckel and Catharina Bartmann
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:307
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  23. The addition of bevacizumab to cytotoxic agents prolongs survival in patients with nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). To date, there is no evidence to suggest that treatment with a cytotoxic agent...

    Authors: Toshiyuki Kozuki, Naoyuki Nogami, Hiromoto Kitajima, Shunichiro Iwasawa, Emiko Sakaida, Yuichi Takiguchi, Satoshi Ikeda, Masahiro Yoshida, Terufumi Kato, Shingo Miyamoto, Kentaro Sakamaki, Tetsu Shinkai and Koshiro Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:306
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  24. The CXCL12-CXCR4 signaling axis in malignant tumor biology has increased in importance, and these peptides are implicated in tumor growth, invasion and metastasis. The aim of our study was to examine the impor...

    Authors: Mamoru Morimoto, Yoichi Matsuo, Shuji Koide, Ken Tsuboi, Tomoya Shamoto, Takafumi Sato, Kenta Saito, Hiroki Takahashi and Hiromitsu Takeyama
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:305
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  25. Tamoxifen, a common anti-estrogen breast cancer medication, is a prodrug that undergoes bioactivation via cytochrome P450 enzymes, CYP2D6 and to a lesser degree, CYP3A4 to form the active metabolite endoxifen. Wi...

    Authors: Sara L. Henderson, Wendy A. Teft and Richard B. Kim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:304
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  26. Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is frequently diagnosed in people of working age, and many GI cancer patients experience work-related problems. Although these patients often experience difficulties returning to w...

    Authors: AnneClaire G.N.M. Zaman, Kristien M.A.J. Tytgat, Jean H.G. Klinkenbijl, Monique H.W. Frings-Dresen and Angela G.E.M. de Boer
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:303
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. Mitogen/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase-5 (MEK5) has been confirmed to play a pivotal role in tumor carcinogenesis and progression. However, few studies have investigated the role of MEK5 in color...

    Authors: Dechang Diao, Lei Wang, Jin Wan, Zhiqiang Chen, Junsheng Peng, Huanliang Liu, Xinlin Chen, Wei Wang and Liaonan Zou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:302
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  28. The optimal conduct of follow-up (FU) of patients with osteosarcoma is uncertain. In the absence of any formal validation of optimal timing and method of surveillance, guidance is provided by oncology societie...

    Authors: Christian Rothermundt, Beatrice M. Seddon, Palma Dileo, Sandra J. Strauss, Joanne Coleman, Timothy W. Briggs, Sarah R. Haile and Jeremy S. Whelan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:301
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  29. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are typically collected into CellSave fixative tubes, which kills the cells, but preserves their morphology. Currently, the clinical utility of CTCs is mostly limited to their en...

    Authors: Steingrimur Stefansson, Daniel L. Adams, William B. Ershler, Huyen Le and David H. Ho
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:300
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  30. Current surgical and ablative treatment options for prostate cancer (PCa) may result in a high incidence of (temporary) incontinence, erectile dysfunction and/or bowel damage. These side effects are due to pro...

    Authors: Matthijs J. V. Scheltema, Willemien van den Bos, Daniel M. de Bruin, Hessel Wijkstra, M. Pilar Laguna, Theo M. de Reijke and Jean JMCH de la Rosette
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:299
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  31. Chemokines are well known inflammatory factors critical for tumor development in diverse tissues, including lung cancer. Chemokine (C-C motif) Ligand 2 (CCL2) was one of such chemokines important for both prim...

    Authors: Xu Li, Fangcai Lin and Hong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:298
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  32. Immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), such as lenalidomide, are therapeutically active compounds that bind and modulate the E3 ubiquitin ligase substrate recruiter cereblon, thereby affect steady-state levels of cer...

    Authors: Qinqin Xu, Yue-xian Hou, Paul Langlais, Patrick Erickson, James Zhu, Chang-Xin Shi, Moulun Luo, Yuanxiao Zhu, Ye Xu, Lawrence J. Mandarino, Keith Stewart and Xiu-bao Chang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:297
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  33. The study aimed to compare urinary symptoms in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer after a combination of either low-dose-rate or high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy along with intensity-m...

    Authors: Satoshi Nakamura, Naoya Murakami, Koji Inaba, Akihisa Wakita, Kazuma Kobayashi, Kana Takahashi, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Rei Umezawa, Madoka Morota, Minako Sumi, Hiroshi Igaki, Yoshinori Ito and Jun Itami
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:296
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  34. Inhibitors of mutant BRAF are emerging as standard of care in patients with metastatic melanoma who carry relevant oncogenic mutations. However, BRAF inhibitors are found to induce cutaneous squamous cell carc...

    Authors: Haojie Li, Lars Pedersen, Mette Nørgaard, Sinna P. Ulrichsen, Sandra K. Thygesen and Jeanenne J. Nelson
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:295
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  35. No study has been conducted to investigate the spatial pattern and association of socioeconomic status (such as income) with breast and colorectal cancer incidence in Texas, United States. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Zheyu Liu, Kai Zhang and Xianglin L. Du
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:294
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  36. This study was performed to design a predictive tool that allows the estimation of overall survival (OS) of elderly myeloma patients (aged ≥65 years) presenting with myeloma-induced spinal cord compression (SCC).

    Authors: Dirk Rades, Antonio Jose Conde-Moreno, Jon Cacicedo, Theo Veninga, Niklas Gebauer, Tobias Bartscht and Steven E. Schild
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:292
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  37. Clinically significant levels of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) affect up to 49 % of cancer survivors and are more prevalent among women. FCR is associated with psychological distress, lower quality of life, ...

    Authors: Christine Maheu, Sophie Lebel, Christine Courbasson, Monique Lefebvre, Mina Singh, Lori J. Bernstein, Linda Muraca, Aronela Benea, Lynne Jolicoeur, Cheryl Harris, Agnihotram V. Ramanakumar, Sarah Ferguson and Souraya Sidani
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:291
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  38. Despite novel therapeutic agents, most multiple myeloma (MM) patients eventually relapse. Two large phase III trials have shown significantly improved response rates (RR) of lenalidomide/dexamethasone compared...

    Authors: Marc-Andrea Baertsch, Jana Schlenzka, Elias K. Mai, Maximilian Merz, Jens Hillengaß, Marc S. Raab, Dirk Hose, Patrick Wuchter, Anthony D. Ho, Anna Jauch, Thomas Hielscher, Christina Kunz, Steffen Luntz, Stefan Klein, Ingo G. H. Schmidt-Wolf, Martin Goerner…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:290
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  39. The aim of this study was to compare surgical treatment received by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia and to examine whether patie...

    Authors: Alison Gibberd, Rajah Supramaniam, Anthony Dillon, Bruce K. Armstrong and Dianne L. O’Connell
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:289
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  40. Increasing the biological effective dose (BED) of radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can increase local control rates and improve overall survival. Compared with conventional fractionated radi...

    Authors: Xiao-Cang Ren, Quan-Yu Wang, Rui Zhang, Xue-Ji Chen, Na Wang, Yue-E Liu, Jie Zong, Zhi-Jun Guo, Dong-Ying Wang and Qiang Lin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:288
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Ependymal tumors in adults are rare, accounting for less than 4 % of primary tumors of the central nervous system in this age group. The low prevalence of intracranial ependymoma in adults limits the ability t...

    Authors: Dorothee Gramatzki, Patrick Roth, Jörg Felsberg, Silvia Hofer, Elisabeth J. Rushing, Bettina Hentschel, Manfred Westphal, Dietmar Krex, Matthias Simon, Oliver Schnell, Wolfgang Wick, Guido Reifenberger and Michael Weller
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:287
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  43. Adequate circadian timing of cancer treatment schedules (chronotherapy) can enhance tolerance and efficacy several-fold in experimental and clinical situations. However, the optimal timing varies according to ...

    Authors: Elisabet Ortiz-Tudela, Pasquale F. Innominato, Maria Angeles Rol, Francis Lévi and Juan Antonio Madrid
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:285
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  45. Alcohol consumption is associated with increased risk of breast cancer (BC), and the underlying mechanism is thought to be sex-hormone driven. In vitro and observational studies suggest a mechanism involving p...

    Authors: Tine Iskov Kopp, Ditte Marie Jensen, Gitte Ravn-Haren, Arieh Cohen, Helle Molgaard Sommer, Lars Ove Dragsted, Anne Tjonneland, David Michael Hougaard and Ulla Vogel
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:283
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  46. Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a highly aggressive Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) with rising incidence over the past 30 years in immunocompetent patients. Although outcomes have improved, PCNS...

    Authors: Elisabeth Schorb, Juergen Finke, Andrés J. M. Ferreri, Gabriele Ihorst, Kristina Mikesch, Benjamin Kasenda, Kristina Fritsch, Heidi Fricker, Elvira Burger, Olga Grishina, Elke Valk, Emanuele Zucca and Gerald Illerhaus
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:282
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Participation in low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening offered in the trial context has been poor, especially among smokers from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds; a group for whom the risk-benefit rat...

    Authors: Samantha L. Quaife, Mamta Ruparel, Rebecca J. Beeken, Andy McEwen, John Isitt, Gary Nolan, Karen Sennett, David R. Baldwin, Stephen W. Duffy, Samuel M. Janes and Jane Wardle
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:281
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Few new compounds are available for relapsed osteosarcoma. We retrospectively evaluated the activity of gemcitabine (G) plus docetaxel (D) in patients with relapsed high-grade osteosarcoma and high-grade spind...

    Authors: E. Palmerini, R. L. Jones, E. Marchesi, A. Paioli, M. Cesari, A. Longhi, C. Meazza, L. Coccoli, F. Fagioli, S. Asaftei, G. Grignani, A. Tamburini, S. M. Pollack, P. Picci and S. Ferrari
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:280
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  49. Acquired resistance towards apoptosis is a hallmark of cancer. Elimination of cells bearing activated oncogenes or stimulation of tumor suppressor mediators may provide a selection pressure to overcome resista...

    Authors: Christiana G. Savva, Sotirios Totokotsopoulos, Kyriakos C. Nicolaou, Christiana M. Neophytou and Andreas I. Constantinou
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:279
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  50. Metronomic oral vinorelbine is effective in metastatic NSCLC and malignant pleural mesothelioma, but all the studies published thus far were based upon a variety of empirical and possibly suboptimal schedules,...

    Authors: Xavier Elharrar, Dominique Barbolosi, Joseph Ciccolini, Christophe Meille, Christian Faivre, Bruno Lacarelle, Nicolas André and Fabrice Barlesi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2016 16:278
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

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