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Volume 86, Issue 5
Published online 4 March 2002 (665-842)

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Conference Report

Beatson International Cancer Conference: Genomic Regulation and Cancer FREE

K E Gordon, A P MacLaren and N I Barr

Br J Cancer 86: 665-668; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600146

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Clinical

Phase II study of bi-weekly administration of paclitaxel and cisplatin in patients with advanced oesophageal cancer FREE

M B Polee, F A L M Eskens, M E L van der Burg, T A W Splinter, P D Siersema, H W Tilanus, J Verweij, G Stoter and A van der Gaast

Br J Cancer 86: 669-673; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600166

Influence of pathological tumour variables on long-term survival in resectable gastric cancer FREE

A Cuschieri, I C Talbot and S Weeden on behalf of the MRC Upper GI Cancer Working Party

Br J Cancer 86: 674-679; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600161

A phase II trial of the vitamin D analogue Seocalcitol (EB1089) in patients with inoperable pancreatic cancer FREE

T R J Evans, K W Colston, F J Lofts, D Cunningham, D A Anthoney, H Gogas, J S de Bono, K J Hamberg, T Skov and J L Mansi

Br J Cancer 86: 680-685; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600162

Pre-treatment nomogram for biochemical control after neoadjuvant androgen deprivation and radical radiotherapy for clinically localised prostate cancer FREE

C C Parker, A R Norman, R A Huddart, A Horwich and D P Dearnaley

Br J Cancer 86: 686-691; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600160

Sequential or alternating administration of docetaxel (Taxotere®) combined with FEC in metastatic breast cancer: a randomised phase II trial FREE

M Spielmann, M Tubiana-Hulin, M Namer, H Mansouri, P h Bougnoux, N Tubiana-Mathieu, V Lotz and J C Eymard

Br J Cancer 86: 692-697; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600165

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Epidemiology

Randomised beta-carotene supplementation and incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease in women: is the association modified by baseline plasma level? FREE

I-M Lee, N R Cook, J E Manson and J E Buring

Br J Cancer 86: 698-701; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600147

Low prevalence of Epstein–Barr virus in incident gastric adenocarcinomas from the United Kingdom FREE

D E Burgess, C B Woodman, K J Flavell, D C Rowlands, J Crocker, K Scott, J P Biddulph, L S Young and P G Murray

Br J Cancer 86: 702-704; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600107

Prevalence and determinants of human papillomavirus genital infection in men FREE

S Franceschi, X Castellsagué, L Dal Maso, J S Smith, M Plummer, C Ngelangel, S Chichareon, J Eluf-Neto, K V Shah, P J F Snijders, C J L M Meijer, F X Bosch and N Muñoz

Br J Cancer 86: 705-711; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600194

Diet and ovarian cancer risk: a case–control study in China FREE

M Zhang, Z Y Yang, C W Binns and A H Lee

Br J Cancer 86: 712-717; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600085

A follow-up study of breast and other cancers in families of an unselected series of breast cancer patients FREE

K E Bennett, A Howell, D G R Evans and J M Birch

Br J Cancer 86: 718-722; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600106

Differential effects of reproductive factors on the risk of pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. Results from a large cohort of French women FREE

F Clavel-Chapelon and the E3N-EPIC Group

Br J Cancer 86: 723-727; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600124

Alpha-foetoprotein in umbilical cord in relation to severe pre-eclampsia, birth weight and future breast cancer risk FREE

L J Vatten, P R Romundstad, R A Ødegård, S T Nilsen, D Trichopoulos and R Austgulen

Br J Cancer 86: 728-731; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600125

A case–control study of childhood leukaemia and paternal occupational contact level in rural Sweden FREE

L Kinlen, J Jiang and K Hemminki

Br J Cancer 86: 732-737; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600113

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Molecular and Cellular Pathology

Expression of different survivin variants in gastric carcinomas: first clues to a role of survivin-2B in tumour progression FREE

A Krieg, C Mahotka, T Krieg, H Grabsch, W Müller, S Takeno, C V Suschek, M Heydthausen, H E Gabbert and C D Gerharz

Br J Cancer 86: 737-743; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600153

An analysis of p53, BAX and vascular endothelial growth factor expression in node-positive rectal cancer. Relationships with tumour recurrence and event-free survival of patients treated with adjuvant chemoradiation FREE

S Cascinu, F Graziano, V Catalano, M P Staccioli, M C Rossi, A M Baldelli, S Barni, A Brenna, S Secondino, P Muretto and G Catalano

Br J Cancer 86: 744-749; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600155

p53 as a potential predictive factor of response to chemotherapy: feasibility of p53 assessment using a functional test in yeast from trucut biopsies in breast cancer patients FREE

H Bonnefoi, A Ducraux, S Movarekhi, M F Pelte, S Bongard, E Lurati and R Iggo

Br J Cancer 86: 750-755; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600105

Analysis of CHK2 in vulval neoplasia FREE

A Reddy, M Yuille, A Sullivan, C Repellin, A Bell, J A Tidy, D J Evans, P J Farrell, B Gusterson, M Gasco and T Crook

Br J Cancer 86: 756-760; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600131

Tamoxifen induction of angiogenic factor expression in endometrium FREE

S Hague, S Manek, M K Oehler, I Z MacKenzie, R Bicknell and M C P Rees

Br J Cancer 86: 761-767; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600157

Inhibitory effect on expression of angiogenic factors by antiangiogenic agents in renal cell carcinoma FREE

H Sasamura, A Takahashi, N Miyao, M Yanase, N Masumori, H Kitamura, N Itoh and T Tsukamoto

Br J Cancer 86: 768-773; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600152

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Experimental Therapeutics

The cancer preventative agent resveratrol is converted to the anticancer agent piceatannol by the cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP1B1 FREE

G A Potter, L H Patterson, E Wanogho, P J Perry, P C Butler, T Ijaz, K C Ruparelia, J H Lamb, P B Farmer, L A Stanley and M D Burke

Br J Cancer 86: 774-778; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600197

Thiram inhibits angiogenesis and slows the development of experimental tumours in mice FREE

M Marikovsky

Br J Cancer 86: 779-787; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600078

Inhibition of the alpha-nu integrins with a cyclic RGD peptide impairs angiogenesis, growth and metastasis of solid tumours in vivo  FREE

M A Buerkle, S A Pahernik, A Sutter, A Jonczyk, K Messmer and M Dellian

Br J Cancer 86: 788-795; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600141

Murine 5T multiple myeloma cells induce angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo  FREE

E Van Valckenborgh, H De Raeve, L Devy, S Blacher, C Munaut, A Noël, E Van Marck, I Van Riet, B Van Camp and K Vanderkerken

Br J Cancer 86: 796-802; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600137

Anti-angiogenic effects of the thienopyridine SR 25989 in vitro and in vivo in a murine pulmonary metastasis model FREE

M C M Mah-Becherel, J Céraline, G Deplanque, M-P Chenard, J-P Bergerat, J-P Cazenave and C Klein-Soyer

Br J Cancer 86: 803-810; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600142

A fully human anti-Ep-CAM scFv-beta-glucuronidase fusion protein for selective chemotherapy with a glucuronide prodrug FREE

M de Graaf, E Boven, D Oosterhoff, I H van der Meulen-Muileman, G A Huls, W R Gerritsen, H J Haisma and H M Pinedo

Br J Cancer 86: 811-818; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600143

Sequence-dependent effects of ZD1839 ('Iressa') in combination with cytotoxic treatment in human head and neck cancer FREE

N Magné, J L Fischel, A Dubreuil, P Formento, S Marcié, J-L Lagrange and G Milano

Br J Cancer 86: 819-827; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600103

Superantigen reactive Vbeta6+ T cells induce perforin/granzyme B mediated caspase-independent apoptosis in tumour cells FREE

S Müerköster, M A Weigand, C Choi, H Walczak, V Schirrmacher and V Umansky

Br J Cancer 86: 828-836; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600104

ALA and ALA hexyl ester in free and liposomal formulations for the photosensitisation of tumour organ cultures FREE

A Casas, C Perotti, M Saccoliti, P Sacca, H Fukuda and A M del C Batlle

Br J Cancer 86: 837-842; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600144

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