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Volume 100, Issue 5
Published online 3 March 2009 (671-864)

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Review

CYP17 blockade by abiraterone: further evidence for frequent continued hormone-dependence in castration-resistant prostate cancer

J E Ang, D Olmos and J S de Bono

Br J Cancer 100: 671-675; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604904

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Clinical Studies

The expression of RUNX3 in colorectal cancer is associated with disease stage and patient outcome

R Soong, N Shah, B K Peh, P Y Chong, S S Ng, N Zeps, D Joseph, M Salto-Tellez, B Iacopetta and Y Ito

Br J Cancer 100: 676-679; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604899

Poor survival outcomes in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with low-grade, node-negative tumours

S M Tovey, S Brown, J C Doughty, E A Mallon, T G Cooke and J Edwards

Br J Cancer 100: 680-683; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604940

Management of cardiac health in trastuzumab-treated patients with breast cancer: updated United Kingdom National Cancer Research Institute recommendations for monitoring FREE

A L Jones, M Barlow, P J Barrett-Lee, P A Canney, I M Gilmour, S D Robb, C J Plummer, A M Wardley and M W Verrill

Br J Cancer 100: 684-692; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604909

The impact of 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography on the staging, management and outcome of anal cancer

E de Winton, A G Heriot, M Ng, R J Hicks, A Hogg, A Milner, T Leong, M Fay, J MacKay, E Drummond and S Y Ngan

Br J Cancer 100: 693-700; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604897

Comparison of tumour-based (Petersen Index) and inflammation-based (Glasgow Prognostic Score) scoring systems in patients undergoing curative resection for colon cancer

C S D Roxburgh, J E M Crozier, F Maxwell, A K Foulis, J Brown, R F McKee, J H Anderson, P G Horgan and D C McMillan

Br J Cancer 100: 701-706; advance online publication, February 10, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604926

Extended weekly dose-dense paclitaxel/carboplatin is feasible and active in heavily pre-treated platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer

R Sharma, J Graham, H Mitchell, A Brooks, S Blagden and H Gabra

Br J Cancer 100: 707-712; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604914

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Translational Therapeutics

Dietary supplementation with a specific combination of high protein, leucine, and fish oil improves muscle function and daily activity in tumour-bearing cachectic mice

K van Norren, D Kegler, J M Argilés, Y Luiking, M Gorselink, A Laviano, K Arts, J Faber, H Jansen, E M van der Beek and A van Helvoort

Br J Cancer 100: 713-722; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604905

Protoporphyrin IX enhancement by 5-aminolaevulinic acid peptide derivatives and the effect of RNA silencing on intracellular metabolism

L Bourré, F Giuntini, I M Eggleston, M Wilson and A J MacRobert

Br J Cancer 100: 723-731; advance online publication, February 24, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604928

Biomarker analysis in stage III–IV (M0) gastric cancer patients who received curative surgery followed by adjuvant 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin chemotherapy: epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) associated with favourable survival

J-S Kim, M-A Kim, T M Kim, S-H Lee, D-W Kim, S-A Im, T-Y Kim, W H Kim, H-K Yang, D S Heo, Y-J Bang, K-U Lee, K-J Choe and N K Kim

Br J Cancer 100: 732-738; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604936

Apollon gene silencing induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells through p53 stabilisation and caspase-3 activation

A Lopergolo, M Pennati, P Gandellini, N I Orlotti, P Poma, M G Daidone, M Folini and N Zaffaroni

Br J Cancer 100: 739-746; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604927

Treatment regimen determines whether an HIF-1 inhibitor enhances or inhibits the effect of radiation therapy

H Harada, S Itasaka, Y Zhu, L Zeng, X Xie, A Morinibu, K Shinomiya and M Hiraoka

Br J Cancer 100: 747-757; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604939

Combined inhibition of DNA methylation and histone acetylation enhances gene re-expression and drug sensitivity in vivo

N Steele, P Finn, R Brown and J A Plumb

Br J Cancer 100: 758-763; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604932

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Molecular Diagnostics

Overexpression of E2F-5 correlates with a pathological basal phenotype and a worse clinical outcome FREE

S Umemura, M Shirane, S Takekoshi, T Kusakabe, J Itoh, N Egashira, Y Tokuda, K Mori and Y R Osamura

Br J Cancer 100: 764-771; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604900

HIF-1alpha determines the metastatic potential of gastric cancer cells

N Rohwer, S Lobitz, K Daskalow, T Jöns, M Vieth, P M Schlag, W Kemmner, B Wiedenmann, T Cramer and M Höcker

Br J Cancer 100: 772-781; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604919

Relation between outcomes and localisation of p-mTOR expression in gastric cancer

T Murayama, M Inokuchi, Y Takagi, H Yamada, K Kojima, J Kumagai, T Kawano and K Sugihara

Br J Cancer 100: 782-788; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604915

Taurine: a potential marker of apoptosis in gliomas

K S Opstad, B A Bell, J R Griffiths and F A Howe

Br J Cancer 100: 789-794; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604933

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Epidemiology

Does type 2 diabetes influence the risk of oesophageal adenocarcinoma?

R E Neale, J D Doecke, N Pandeya, S Sadhegi, A C Green, P M Webb and D C Whiteman for The Australian Cancer Study

Br J Cancer 100: 795-798; advance online publication, February 3, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604908

Trends in the incidence of primary liver cancer in Central Uganda, 1960–1980 and 1991–2005

P Ocama, S Nambooze, C K Opio, M S Shiels, H R Wabinga and G D Kirk

Br J Cancer 100: 799-802; advance online publication, January 27, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604893

Birth characteristics and risk of colorectal cancer: a study among Swedish twins

S Cnattingius, F Lundberg and A Iliadou

Br J Cancer 100: 803-806; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604918

Is the biology of breast cancer changing? A study of hormone receptor status 1984–1986 and 1996–1997

S B F Brown, E A Mallon, J Edwards, F M Campbell, L M McGlynn, B Elsberger and T G Cooke

Br J Cancer 100: 807-810; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604934

Radiation to supraclavicular and internal mammary lymph nodes in breast cancer increases the risk of stroke

G Nilsson, L Holmberg, H Garmo, A Terent and C Blomqvist

Br J Cancer 100: 811-816; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604902

Breast cancer risk in elderly women with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a population-based case–control study

S M Gadalla, S Amr, P Langenberg, M Baumgarten, W F Davidson, C Schairer, E A Engels, R M Pfeiffer and J J Goedert

Br J Cancer 100: 817-821; advance online publication, February 3, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604906

Risks of myeloid malignancies in patients with autoimmune conditions

L A Anderson, R M Pfeiffer, O Landgren, S Gadalla, S I Berndt and E A Engels

Br J Cancer 100: 822-828; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604935

Cancer risk in hospitalised asthma patients

J Ji, X Shu, X Li, K Sundquist, J Sundquist and K Hemminki

Br J Cancer 100: 829-833; advance online publication, January 27, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604890

Urinary tract infections and reduced risk of bladder cancer in Los Angeles

X Jiang, J E Castelao, S Groshen, V K Cortessis, D Shibata, D V Conti, J-M Yuan, M C Pike and M Gago-Dominguez

Br J Cancer 100: 834-839; advance online publication, January 27, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604889

Pattern of cancer risk in persons with AIDS in Italy in the HAART era

L Dal Maso, J Polesel, D Serraino, M Lise, P Piselli, F Falcini, A Russo, T Intrieri, M Vercelli, P Zambon, G Tagliabue, R Zanetti, M Federico, R M Limina, L Mangone, V De Lisi, F Stracci, S Ferretti, S Piffer, M Budroni, A Donato, A Giacomin, F Bellù, M Fusco, A Madeddu, S Vitarelli, R Tessandori, R Tumino, B Suligoi and S Franceschi for the Cancer and AIDS Registries Linkage (CARL) Study

Br J Cancer 100: 840-847; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604923

Tobacco chewing and female oral cavity cancer risk in Karunagappally cohort, India

P A Jayalekshmi, P Gangadharan, S Akiba, R R K Nair, M Tsuji and B Rajan

Br J Cancer 100: 848-852; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604907

Unchanged incidence and increased survival in children with neuroblastoma in Denmark 1981–2000: a population-based study

H Schroeder, J Wacher, H Larsson, S Rosthoej, C Rechnitzer, B L Pedersen and N L T Carlsen

Br J Cancer 100: 853-857; advance online publication, February 17, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604922

Cancer survival discrepancies in developed and developing countries: comparisons between the Philippines and the United States

M T Redaniel, A Laudico, M R Mirasol-Lumague, A Gondos, D Pulte, C Mapua and H Brenner

Br J Cancer 100: 858-862; advance online publication, February 24, 2009; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604945

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Letter to the Editor

Infections in early life and risk of childhood ALL

M Greaves and P A Buffler

Br J Cancer 100: 863; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604950

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Book Review

Apoptosis, senescence and cancer (cancer drug discovery and development)

A Young

Br J Cancer 100: 864; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604944

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