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BMC Cancer, Volume 8

 
Research article
A resampling-based meta-analysis for detection of differential gene expression in breast cancer
Bala Gur-Dedeoglu, Ozlen Konu, Serkan Kir, Ahmet Rasit Ozturk, Betul Bozkurt, Gulusan Ergul, Isik G Yulug
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:396 (30December2008)
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Research article
mRNA expression of the DNA replication-initiation proteins in epithelial dysplasia and squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue
Jian-na Li, Chong-jin Feng, Yong-jun Lu, Hui-jun Li, Zheng Tu, Gui-qing Liao, Chun Liang
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:395 (30December2008)
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Research article
Gene expression meta-analysis identifies metastatic pathways and transcription factors in breast cancer
Mads Thomassen, Qihua Tan, Torben A Kruse
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:394 (30December2008)
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Research article
The development of a mini-array for estimating the disease state of gastric adenocarcinoma by array CGH
Tomoko Furuya, Tetsuji Uchiyama, Atsushi Adachi, Takae Okada, Motonao Nakao, Atsunori Oga, Song-Ju Yang, Shigeto Kawauchi, Kohsuke Sasaki
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:393 (30December2008)
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Research article
Quantification of SLIT-ROBO transcripts in hepatocellular carcinoma reveals two groups of genes with coordinate expression
Mehmet Ender Avci, Ozlen Konu, Tamer Yagci
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:392 (29December2008)
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Research article
Targeting cyclin B1 inhibits proliferation and sensitizes breast cancer cells to taxol
Ilija Androic, Andrea Krmer, Ruilan Yan, Franz Rdel, Regine Gtje, Manfred Kaufmann, Klaus Strebhardt, Juping Yuan
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:391 (29December2008)
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Research article
Aberrant allele-specific replication, independent of parental origin, in blood cells of cancer patients
Zohar A Dotan, Aviva Dotan, Jacob Ramon, Lydia Avivi
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:390 (25December2008)
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Research article
Haptoglobin phenotype is not a predictor of recurrence free survival in high-risk primary breast cancer patients
Marie-Christine W Gast, Harm van Tinteren, Marijke Bontenbal, Ren QGCM van Hoesel, Marianne A Nooij, Sjoerd Rodenhuis, Paul N Span, Vivianne CG Tjan-Heijnen, Elisabeth GE de Vries, Nathan Harris, Jos WR Twisk, Jan HM Schellens, Jos H Beijnen
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:389 (24December2008)
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Research article
Histone H1x is highly expressed in human neuroendocrine cells and tumours
Julia Warneboldt, Florian Haller, Olaf Horstmann, Bernhard C Danner, Lszl Fzesi, Detlef Doenecke, Nicole Happel
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:388 (24December2008)
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Research article
Smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, and risk of renal cell cancer: a population-based case-control study
Ryan P Theis, Suzanne M Dolwick Grieb, Deborah Burr, Tariq Siddiqui, Nabih R Asal
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:387 (24December2008)
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Research article
Thymidylate synthase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, ERCC1, and thymidine phosphorylase gene expression in primary and metastatic gastrointestinal adenocarcinoma tissue in patients treated on a phase I trial of oxaliplatin and capecitabine
Kazumi Uchida, Peter V Danenberg, Kathleen D Danenberg, Jean L Grem
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:386 (23December2008)
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Research article
Genetic analysis of the vitamin D receptor gene in two epithelial cancers: melanoma and breast cancer case-control studies
Eva Barroso, Lara P Fernandez, Roger L Milne, Guillermo Pita, Elena Sendagorta, Uxua Floristan, Marta Feito, Jose A Aviles, Manuel Martin-Gonzalez, Jose I Arias, Pilar Zamora, Monserrat Blanco, Pablo Lazaro, Javier Benitez, Gloria Ribas
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:385 (23December2008)
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Research article
Expression of centromere protein F (CENP-F) associated with higher FDG uptake on PET/CT, detected by cDNA microarray, predicts high-risk patients with primary breast cancer
Shigeto Ueda, Nobuo Kondoh, Hitoshi Tsuda, Souhei Yamamoto, Hideki Asakawa, Kazuhiko Fukatsu, Takayuki Kobayashi, Junji Yamamoto, Katsumi Tamura, Jiro Ishida, Yoshiyuki Abe, Mikio Yamamoto, Hidetaka Mochizuki
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:384 (22December2008)
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Research article
Antioxidant intervention of smoking-induced lung tumor in mice by vitamin E and quercetin
Jie Yang, Lu Wang, Zhaoli Chen, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Min Jin, Xin-Wei Wang, Yufei Zheng, Zhi-Gang Qiu, Jing-feng Wang, Jun-Wen Li
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:383 (20December2008)
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Research article
Genetic polymorphisms of RANTES, IL1-A, MCP-1 and TNF-A genes in patients with prostate cancer
Pablo Senz-Lpez, Rafael Carretero, Jos Manuel Czar, Jos Maria Romero, Julia Canton, Jos Ramn Vilchez, Miguel Tallada, Federico Garrido, Francisco Ruiz-Cabello
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:382 (19December2008)
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Research article
Class I histone deacetylases 1, 2 and 3 are highly expressed in renal cell cancer
Florian R Fritzsche, Wilko Weichert, Annika Rske, Volker Gekeler, Thomas Beckers, Carsten Stephan, Klaus Jung, Katharina Scholman, Carsten Denkert, Manfred Dietel, Glen Kristiansen
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:381 (19December2008)
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Research article
Role of cAMP in the promotion of colorectal cancer cell growth by Prostaglandin E2
Ivonne Lffler, Michael Grn, Frank D Bhmer, Ignacio Rubio
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:380 (19December2008)
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Research article
Aberrant Expression of ID2 protein and its correlation with EBV-LMP1 and P16(INK4A) in Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma in China
Po Zhao, Yali Lu, Lin Liu, Mei Zhong
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:379 (19December2008)
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Research article
Polymorphism +17 C/G in Matrix Metalloprotease MMP8 decreases lung cancer risk
Patricia Gonzlez-Arriaga, M Felicitas Lpez-Cima, Ana Fernndez-Somoano, Teresa Pascual, Manuel G Marrn, Xose S Puente, Adonina Tardn
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:378 (19December2008)
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Research article
tabAnti-HER2 (erbB-2) oncogene effects of phenolic compounds directly isolated from commercial Extra-Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
Javier A Menendez, Alejandro Vazquez-Martin, Rocio Garcia-Villalba, Alegria Carrasco-Pancorbo, Cristina Oliveras-Ferraros, Alberto Fernandez-Gutierrez, Antonio Segura-Carretero
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:377 (18December2008)
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Research article
Cimetidine inhibits salivary gland tumor cell adhesion to neural cells and induces apoptosis by blocking NCAM expression
Masakatsu Fukuda, Kaoru Kusama, Hideaki Sakashita
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:376 (18December2008)
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Research article
Increased p38-MAPK is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in human gastric cancer cells
Xianling Guo, Nannan Ma, Jin Wang, Jianrui Song, Xinxin Bu, Yue Cheng, Kai Sun, Haiyan Xiong, Guocheng Jiang, Baihe Zhang, Mengchao Wu, Lixin Wei
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:375 (18December2008)
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Research article
Gemcitabine-based versus fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy with or without platinum in unresectable biliary tract cancer: a retrospective study
Mi-Jung Kim, Do-Youn Oh, Se-Hoon Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Seock-Ah Im, Tae-You Kim, Dae Seog Heo, Yung-Jue Bang
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:374 (18December2008)
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Research article
Desmoglein 2 is a substrate of kallikrein 7 in pancreatic cancer
Vishnu C Ramani, Leah Hennings, Randy S Haun
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:373 (17December2008)
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Research article
Down-regulation of GRP78 is associated with the sensitivity of chemotherapy to VP-16 in small cell lung cancer NCI-H446 cells
Yingyan Wang, Wei Wang, Siyan Wang, Jiarui Wang, Shujuan Shao, Qi Wang
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:372 (17December2008)
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Research article
Conventional and molecular cytogenetics of human non-medullary thyroid carcinoma: characterization of eight cell line models and review of the literature on clinical samples
Franclim Ricardo Ribeiro, Ana Margarida Meireles, Ana Sofia Rocha, Manuel Rodrigues Teixeira
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:371 (16December2008)
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Research article
Immunological tolerance and tumor rejection in embryo-aggregated chimeric mice Lessons for tumor immunity
Alexander Y Wagner, Eric Holle, Lori Holle, Xianzhong Yu, Gnter Schwamberger
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:370 (16December2008)
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Research article
The FUSE binding proteins FBP1 and FBP3 are potential c-myc regulators in renal, but not in prostate and bladder cancer
Achim Weber, Ilka Kristiansen, Manfred Johannsen, Beibei Oelrich, Katharina Scholmann, Sven Gunia, Matthias May, Hellmuth-Alexander Meyer, Silvia Behnke, Holger Moch, Glen Kristiansen
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:369 (16December2008)
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Research article
Incidence, mortality and survival patterns of prostate cancer among residents in Singapore from 1968 to 2002
Sin Eng Chia, Chuen Seng Tan, Gek Hsiang Lim, Xueling Sim, Yudi Pawitan, Marie Reilly, Safiyya Mohamed Ali, Weber Lau, Kee Seng Chia
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:368 (16December2008)
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Research article
Epithelial ovarian cancer relapsing as isolated lymph node disease: natural history and clinical outcome
Francesco Legge, Marco Petrillo, Vincenzo Adamo, Salvatore Pisconti, Giovanni Scambia, Gabriella Ferrandina
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:367 (12December2008)
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Research article
Dietary preference, physical activity, and cancer risk in men: national health insurance corporation study
Young Ho Yun, Min Kyung Lim, Young-Joo Won, Sang Min Park, Yoon Jung Chang, Sang Woo Oh, Soon Ae Shin
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:366 (11December2008)
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Research article
Protein kinase Cepsilon is important for migration of neuroblastoma cells
Helena Stensman, Christer Larsson
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:365 (11December2008)
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Research article
Highly variable response to cytotoxic chemotherapy in carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) from lung and breast
Maike Sonnenberg, Heiko van der Kuip, Silke Haubei, Peter Fritz, Werner Schroth, Godehard Friedel, Wolfgang Simon, Thomas E Mrdter, Walter E Aulitzky
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:364 (11December2008)
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Research article
Analysis of EGFR, HER2, and TOP2A gene status and chromosomal polysomy in gastric adenocarcinoma from Chinese patients
Zhiyong Liang, Xuan Zeng, Jie Gao, Shafei Wu, Peng Wang, Xiaohua Shi, Jing Zhang, Tonghua Liu
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:363 (6December2008)
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Research article
Tumor necrosis is associated with increased alphavbeta3 integrin expression and poor prognosis in nodular cutaneous melanomas
Ingeborg M Bachmann, Rita G Ladstein, Oddbjrn Straume, George N Naumov, Lars A Akslen
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:362 (5December2008)
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Study protocol
Rationale and design of PROSPECT-CONKO 004: a prospective, randomized trial of simultaneous pancreatic cancer treatment with enoxaparin and chemotherapy)
Hanno Riess, Uwe Pelzer, Andreas Hilbig, Jens Stieler, Bernhard Opitz, Theo Scholten, Drte Kauschat-Brning, Peter Bramlage, Bernd Drken, Helmut Oettle
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:361 (5December2008)
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Research article
The use of gamma-irradiation and ultraviolet-irradiation in the preparation of human melanoma cells for use in autologous whole-cell vaccines
Donna H Deacon, Kevin T Hogan, Erin M Swanson, Kimberly A Chianese-Bullock, Chadrick E Denlinger, Andrea R Czarkowski, Randy S Schrecengost, James W Patterson, Mark W Teague, Craig L Slingluff Jr
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:360 (4December2008)
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Research article
The genetic polymorphisms of HER-2 and the risk of lung cancer in a Korean population
Uk Hyun Jo, Sle Gi Lo Han, Jae Hong Seo, Kyong Hwa Park, Jae Won Lee, Hyo Jung Lee, Jeong Seon Ryu, Yeul Hong Kim
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:359 (4December2008)
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Research article
Benchmarking the quality of breast cancer care in a nationwide voluntary system: the first five-year results (20032007) from Germany as a proof of concept
Sara Y Brucker, Claudia Schumacher, Christoph Sohn, Mahdi Rezai, Michael Bamberg, Diethelm Wallwiener, the Steering Committee
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:358 (2December2008)
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Research article
Association of the germline TP53 R337H mutation with breast cancer in southern Brazil
Juliana G Assumpo, Ana Luza Seidinger, Maria Jos Mastellaro, Raul C Ribeiro, Gerard P Zambetti, Ramapriya Ganti, Kumar Srivastava, Sheila Shurtleff, Deqing Pei, Luiz Carlos Zeferino, Rozany M Dufloth, Silvia Regina Brandalise, Jos Andres Yunes
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:357 (1December2008)
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Research article
Systematic review of the relation between smokeless tobacco and cancer of the pancreas in Europe and North America
Zheng Sponsiello-Wang, Rolf Weitkunat, Peter N Lee
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:356 (1December2008)
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Research article
Cancer survival among children of Turkish descent in Germany 19802005: a registry-based analysis
Claudia Spix, Jacob Spallek, Peter Kaatsch, Oliver Razum, Hajo Zeeb
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:355 (28November2008)
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Research article
Endothelin receptor B antagonists decrease glioma cell viability independently of their cognate receptor
Jennifer P Montgomery, Paul H Patterson
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:354 (28November2008)
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Research article
Expression of the RON receptor tyrosine kinase and its association with gastric carcinoma versus normal gastric tissues
Donghui Zhou, Gang Pan, Chen Zheng, Jingjing Zheng, Liping Yian, Xiaodong Teng
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:353 (28November2008)
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Research article
The Adnectin CT-322 is a novel VEGF receptor 2 inhibitor that decreases tumor burden in an orthotopic mouse model of pancreatic cancer
Sean P Dineen, Laura A Sullivan, Adam W Beck, Andrew F Miller, Juliet G Carbon, Roni Mamluk, Henry Wong, Rolf A Brekken
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:352 (27November2008)
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Research article
Stereotactic body radiation therapy with or without transarterial chemoembolization for patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma: preliminary analysis
Byung Ock Choi, Ihl Bohng Choi, Hong Seok Jang, Young Nam Kang, Ji Sun Jang, Si Hyun Bae, Seung Kew Yoon, Gyu Young Chai, Ki Mun Kang
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:351 (27November2008)
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Research article
Validation of putative reference genes for gene expression studies in human hepatocellular carcinoma using real-time quantitative RT-PCR
Vito R Cicinnati, Qingli Shen, Georgios C Sotiropoulos, Arnold Radtke, Guido Gerken, Susanne Beckebaum
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:350 (27November2008)
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Study protocol
Prospective, randomized, double-blind, multi-center, Phase III clinical study on transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with Sorafenib versus TACE plus placebo in patients with hepatocellular cancer before liver transplantation HeiLivCa [ISRCTN24081794]
K Hoffmann, H Glimm, B Radeleff, G Richter, C Heining, I Schenkel, A Zahlten-Hinguranage, P Schirrmacher, J Schmidt, MW Bchler, D Jaeger, C von Kalle, P Schemmer
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:349 (26November2008)
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Research article
Effects of small interfering RNA targeting thymidylate synthase on survival of ACC3 cells from salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma
Takashi Shirasaki, Shin-ichiro Maruya, Hiroki Mizukami, Seiji Kakehata, Hidekachi Kurotaki, Soroku Yagihashi, Hideichi Shinkawa
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:348 (26November2008)
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Research article
Gene expression profile of cervical and skin tissues from human papillomavirus type 16 E6 transgenic mice
D Mendoza-Villanueva, J Diaz-Chavez, L Uribe-Figueroa, C Rangel-Escareo, A Hidalgo-Miranda, S March-Mifsut, G Jimenez-Sanchez, PF Lambert, P Gariglio
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:347 (26November2008)
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Research article
Immunohistochemical profiling of benign, low malignant potential and low grade serous epithelial ovarian tumors
Vronique Ouellet, Tak Hay Ling, Karine Normandin, Jason Madore, Christian Lussier, Vronique Barrs, Dimcho Bachvarov, Claudine Rancourt, Patricia N Tonin, Diane M Provencher, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:346 (26November2008)
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Research article
Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems
S Yousuf Zafar, Amy P Abernethy, David H Abbott, Steven C Grambow, Jennifer E Marcello, James E Herndon II, Krista L Rowe, Jane T Kolimaga, Leah L Zullig, Meenal B Patwardhan, Dawn T Provenzale
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:345 (25November2008)
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Research article
Cancer incidence in men: a cluster analysis of spatial patterns
Tiziana Cassetti, Francesco La Rosa, Luca Rossi, Daniela D'Al, Fabrizio Stracci
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:344 (25November2008)
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Technical advance
Gene expression variation between distinct areas of breast cancer measured from paraffin-embedded tissue cores
Martina Schobesberger, Anna Baltzer, Andrea Oberli, Andreas Kappeler, Mathias Gugger, Hana Burger, Rolf Jaggi
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:343 (25November2008)
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Research article
Tripeptide tyroserleutide plus doxorubicin: therapeutic synergy and side effect attenuation
Zhi-feng Zhu, Li-juan Chen, Rong Lu, Jing Jia, Yu Liang, Qiong Xu, Chun-lei Zhou, Li Wang, Song Wang, Zhi Yao
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:342 (25November2008)
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Research article
Male tobacco smoke load and non-lung cancer mortality associations in Massachusetts
Bruce N Leistikow, Zubair Kabir, Gregory N Connolly, Luke Clancy, Hillel R Alpert
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:341 (24November2008)
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Research article
Cytoplasmic CXCR4 expression in breast cancer: induction by nitric oxide and correlation with lymph node metastasis and poor prognosis
Hironao Yasuoka, Masahiko Tsujimoto, Katsuhide Yoshidome, Masaaki Nakahara, Rieko Kodama, Tokio Sanke, Yasushi Nakamura
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:340 (23November2008)
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Research article
Risk estimation of distant metastasis in node-negative, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer patients using an RT-PCR based prognostic expression signature
Andrew Tutt, Alice Wang, Charles Rowland, Cheryl Gillett, Kit Lau, Karen Chew, Hongyue Dai, Shirley Kwok, Kenneth Ryder, Henry Shu, Robert Springall, Paul Cane, Blair McCallie, Lauren Kam-Morgan, Steve Anderson, Horst Buerger, Joe Gray, James Bennington, Laura Esserman, Trevor Hastie, Samuel Broder, John Sninsky, Burkhard Brandt, Fred Waldman
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:339 (21November2008)
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Research article
Leptin receptor Gln223Arg polymorphism and breast cancer risk in Nigerian women: A case control study
Michael N Okobia, Clareann H Bunker, Seymour J Garte, Joseph M Zmuda, Emmanuel R Ezeome, Stanley N Anyanwu, Emmanuel E Uche, Lewis H Kuller, Robert E Ferrell, Emanuela Taioli
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:338 (18November2008)
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Research article
Activation of MEK1 or MEK2 isoform is sufficient to fully transform intestinal epithelial cells and induce the formation of metastatic tumors
Laure Voisin, Catherine Julien, Stphanie Duhamel, Kailesh Gopalbhai, Isabelle Claveau, Marc K Saba-El-Leil, Ian Gal Rodrigue-Gervais, Louis Gaboury, Daniel Lamarre, Mark Basik, Sylvain Meloche
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:337 (17November2008)
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Research article
Dissemination of periodic mammography and patterns of use, by birth cohort, in Catalonia (Spain)
Montserrat Rue, Misericordia Carles, Ester Vilaprinyo, Montserrat Martinez-Alonso, Josep-Alfons Espinas, Roger Pla, Pilar Brugulat
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:336 (17November2008)
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Research article
Prognostic significance of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 alpha(HIF-1alpha) expression in serous ovarian cancer: an immunohistochemical study
Alexandros Daponte, Maria Ioannou, Ilias Mylonis, George Simos, Marcos Minas, Ioannis E Messinis, George Koukoulis
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:335 (16November2008)
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Research article
Elevation of circulating big endothelin-1: an independent prognostic factor for tumor recurrence and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Wenjie Jiao, Jing Xu, Jinsheng Zheng, Yi Shen, Lesheng Lin, Jian Li
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:334 (15November2008)
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Research article
Deoxycholic acid induces the overexpression of intestinal mucin, MUC2, via NF-kB signaling pathway in human esophageal adenocarcinoma cells
JianTao Wu, Jun Gong, Juan Geng, YinXue Song
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:333 (13November2008)
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Research article
XM02 is superior to placebo and equivalent to Neupogen in reducing the duration of severe neutropenia and the incidence of febrile neutropenia in cycle 1 in breast cancer patients receiving docetaxel/doxorubicin chemotherapy
A del Giglio, A Eniu, D Ganea-Motan, E Topuzov, H Lubenau
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:332 (12November2008)
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Research article
Competing risks to breast cancer mortality in Catalonia
Ester Vilaprinyo, Rosa Gispert, Montserrat Martnez-Alonso, Misericrdia Carles, Roger Pla, Josep-Alfons Espins, Montserrat Ru
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:331 (12November2008)
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Research article
Quality of life in patients with breast cancer before and after diagnosis: an eighteen months follow-up study
Ali Montazeri, Mariam Vahdaninia, Iraj Harirchi, Mandana Ebrahimi, Fatemeh Khaleghi, Soghra Jarvandi
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:330 (11November2008)
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Research article
Frameshift mutations in coding repeats of protein tyrosine phosphatase genes in colorectal tumors with microsatellite instability
Sebastian Korff, Stefan M Woerner, Yan P Yuan, Peer Bork, Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, Johannes Gebert
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:329 (10November2008)
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Research article
Clinicopathological significance of expression of p-c-Jun, TCF4 and beta-Catenin in colorectal tumors
Kayoko Takeda, Ichiro Kinoshita, Yasushi Shimizu, Yusuke Ohba, Tomoo Itoh, Yoshihiro Matsuno, Toshiaki Shichinohe, Hirotoshi Dosaka-Akita
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:328 (8November2008)
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Research article
Methylation of WTH3, a possible drug resistant gene, inhibits p53 regulated expression
Kegui Tian, Yuezeng Wang, Yu Huang, Boqiao Sun, Yuxin Li, Haopeng Xu
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:327 (7November2008)
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Research article
Low-penetrance alleles predisposing to sporadic colorectal cancers: a French case-controlled genetic association study
Sbastien Kry, Bruno Buecher, Sbastien Robiou-du-Pont, Catherine Scoul, Hlne Colman, Tanguy Le Neel, Claire Le Hourou, Roger Faroux, Jean Ollivry, Bernard Lafraise, Louis-Dominique Chupin, Vronique Sbille, Stphane Bzieau
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:326 (7November2008)
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Research article
Hepatocyte growth factor enhances death receptor-induced apoptosis by up-regulating DR5
Yang Li, Xing Fan, C Rory Goodwin, John Laterra, Shuli Xia
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:325 (7November2008)
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Research article
Important prognostic factors for the long-term survival of lung cancer subjects in Taiwan
Tai-An Chiang, Ping-Ho Chen, Pei-Fen Wu, Tsu-Nai Wang, Po-Ya Chang, Albert Min-Shan Ko, Ming-Shyan Huang, Ying-Chin Ko
BMC Cancer 2008, 8:324 (7November2008)
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