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Volume 86, Issue 12
Published online 11 June 2002 (1837-1985)

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Clinical

Staging quality is related to the survival of women with endometrial cancer: a Scottish population based study.Deficient surgical staging and omission of adjuvant radiotherapy is associated with poorer survival of women diagnosed with endometrial cancer in Scotland during 1996 and 1997 FREE

S C Crawford, L De Caestecker, C R Gillis, D Hole, J A Davis, G Penney and N A Siddiqui

Br J Cancer 86: 1837-1842; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600358

Adjuvant androgen deprivation impacts late rectal toxicity after conformal radiotherapy of prostate carcinoma FREE

G Sanguineti, S Agostinelli, F Foppiano, P Franzone, S Garelli, M Marcenaro, M Orsatti and V Vitale

Br J Cancer 86: 1843-1847; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600266

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: three protocols combining doxorubicin, hyperfractionated radiotherapy and surgery FREE

J Tennvall, G Lundell, P Wahlberg, A Bergenfelz, L Grimelius, M Åkerman, A-L Hjelm Skog and G Wallin

Br J Cancer 86: 1848-1853; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600361

Potential role of levocarnitine supplementation for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced fatigue in non-anaemic cancer patients FREE

F Graziano, R Bisonni, V Catalano, R Silva, S Rovidati, E Mencarini, B Ferraro, F Canestrari, A M Baldelli, A De Gaetano, P Giordani, E Testa and V Lai

Br J Cancer 86: 1854-1857; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600413

Effective combination chemotherapy with paclitaxel and cisplatin with or without human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and/or erythropoietin in patients with advanced gastric cancer FREE

G V Kornek, M Raderer, B Schüll, W Fiebiger, C Gedlicka, A Lenauer, D Depisch, B Schneeweiss, F Lang and W Scheithauer

Br J Cancer 86: 1858-1863; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600345

Marimastat as maintenance therapy for patients with advanced gastric cancer: a randomised trial FREE

S R Bramhall, M T Hallissey, J Whiting, J Scholefield, G Tierney, R C Stuart, R E Hawkins, P McCulloch, T Maughan, P D Brown, M Baillet and J W L Fielding

Br J Cancer 86: 1864-1870; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600310

Oxaliplatin plus raltitrexed and leucovorin-modulated 5-fluorouracil i.v. bolus: a salvage regimen for colorectal cancer patients FREE

P Comella, R Casaretti, E Crucitta, F De Vita, S Palmeri, A Avallone, M Orditura, L De Lucia, S Del Prete, G Catalano, V Lorusso and G Comella

Br J Cancer 86: 1871-1875; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600414

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Molecular and Cellular Pathology

Tissue levels of active matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9 in colorectal cancer FREE

E T Waas, R M L M Lomme, J DeGroot, Th Wobbes and T Hendriks

Br J Cancer 86: 1876-1883; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600366

Cytokeratin 7 and 20 staining for the diagnosis of lung and colorectal adenocarcinoma FREE

S Kummar, M Fogarasi, A Canova, A Mota and T Ciesielski

Br J Cancer 86: 1884-1887; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600326

Inactivation of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase by promoter CpG island hypermethylation in gastric cancers FREE

S I Bae, H S Lee, S H Kim and W H Kim

Br J Cancer 86: 1888-1892; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600372

Phosphorylated tyrosine-containing proteins in primary lung cancer correlates with proliferation and prognosis FREE

Y Gong, T Hirano, Y Kato, K Yoshida, Y Shou, T Ohira, N Ikeda, Y Ebihara and H Kato

Br J Cancer 86: 1893-1898; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600327

The prognostic influence of bcl-2 in malignant glioma FREE

F E McDonald, J W Ironside, A Gregor, B Wyatt, M Stewart, R Rye, J Adams and H W W Potts

Br J Cancer 86: 1899-1904; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600217

Tumour microvessel density as predictor of chemotherapy response in breast cancer patients FREE

O Tynninen, J Sjöström, K von Boguslawski, N O Bengtsson, R Heikkilä, P Malmström, B Østenstad, E Wist, V Valvere, E Saksela, T Paavonen and C Blomqvist

Br J Cancer 86: 1905-1908; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600325

Expression of cdc25A and cdc25B proteins in thyroid neoplasms FREE

Y Ito, H Yoshida, K Nakano, K Kobayashi, T Yokozawa, K Hirai, F Matsuzuka, N Matsuura, K Kakudo, K Kuma and A Miyauchi

Br J Cancer 86: 1909-1913; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600364

Hypoxia enhances the expression of autocrine motility factor and the motility of human pancreatic cancer cells FREE

H Niizeki, M Kobayashi, I Horiuchi, N Akakura, J Chen, J Wang, J-i Hamada, P Seth, H Katoh, H Watanabe, A Raz and M Hosokawa

Br J Cancer 86: 1914-1919; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600331

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Genetics and Genomics

Somatic glypican 3 (GPC3) mutations in Wilms' tumour FREE

G R M White, A M Kelsey, J M Varley and J M Birch

Br J Cancer 86: 1920-1922; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600417

Overexpression of Betaig-h3 gene downregulates integrin alpha5beta1 and suppresses tumorigenicity in radiation-induced tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial cells FREE

Y L Zhao, C Q Piao and T K Hei

Br J Cancer 86: 1923-1928; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600304

Association of RET codon 691 polymorphism in radiation-induced human thyroid tumours with C-cell hyperplasia in peritumoural tissue FREE

A Bounacer, J A Du Villard, R Wicker, B Caillou, M Schlumberger, A Sarasin and H G Suárez

Br J Cancer 86: 1929-1936; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600371

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Experimental Therapeutics

Induction of endothelial cell apoptosis by the antivascular agent 5,6-dimethylxanthenone-4-acetic acid FREE

L-M Ching, Z Cao, C Kieda, S Zwain, M B Jameson and B C Baguley

Br J Cancer 86: 1937-1942; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600368

Increased expression of beta 2-microglobulin in multidrug-resistant tumour cells FREE

G L Scheffer, M C de Jong, A Monks, M J Flens, C D Hose, M A Izquierdo, R H Shoemaker and R J Scheper

Br J Cancer 86: 1943-1950; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600354

Implication of mitochondria-derived ROS and cardiolipin peroxidation in N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide-induced apoptosis FREE

A Asumendi, M C Morales, A Alvarez, J Aréchaga and G Pérez-Yarza

Br J Cancer 86: 1951-1956; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600356

Decreased proliferation of human melanoma cell lines caused by antisense RNA against translation factor eIF-4A1 FREE

J Eberle, L F Fecker, J-U Bittner, C E Orfanos and C C Geilen

Br J Cancer 86: 1957-1962; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600351

Differential interactions between IGFBP-3 and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) in normal vs cancerous breast epithelial cells FREE

C McCaig, C A Fowler, N J Laurence, T Lai, P B Savage, J M P Holly and C M Perks

Br J Cancer 86: 1963-1969; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600355

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Letter to the Editor

Is the ratio of pleural mesothelioma mortality to pleural cancer mortality approximately unity for Italy? Considerations from the oldest regional mesothelioma register in Italy FREE

G Gorini, E Merler, E Chellini, E Crocetti and A S Costantini

Br J Cancer 86: 1970-1971; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600363

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Book Review

Cancer of the female lower genital tract FREE

Allan MacLean

Br J Cancer 86: 1972; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600357

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Author Index

Author Index FREE

Br J Cancer 86: 1973-1980; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600443

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Keyword Index

Keyword Index FREE

Br J Cancer 86: 1981-1985; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600444

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