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Volume 86, Issue 6
Published online 18 March 2002 (843-1019)

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Clinical

A Bayesian re-assessment of two Phase II trials of gemcitabine in metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer FREE

S-B Tan, D Machin, B-C Tai, K-F Foo and E-H Tan

Br J Cancer 86: 843-850; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600199

Transhiatal vs extended transthoracic resection in oesophageal carcinoma: patients' utilities and treatment preferences FREE

A G E M de Boer, P F M Stalmeier, M A G Sprangers, J C J M de Haes, J W van Sandick, J B F Hulscher and J J B van Lanschot

Br J Cancer 86: 851-857; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600203

Serum levels of the angiogenic factor pleiotrophin in relation to disease stage in lung cancer patients FREE

R Jäger, B List, C Knabbe, B Souttou, D Raulais, T Zeiler, A Wellstein, A Aigner, A Neubauer and G Zugmaier

Br J Cancer 86: 858-863; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600202

Increased pre-therapeutic serum vascular endothelial growth factor in patients with early clinical relapse of osteosarcoma FREE

M Kaya, T Wada, S Kawaguchi, S Nagoya, T Yamashita, Y Abe, H Hiraga, K Isu, M Shindoh, F Higashino, F Okada, M Tada, S Yamawaki and S Ishii

Br J Cancer 86: 864-869; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600201

Axillary node status in breast cancer patients prior to surgery by imaging with Tc-99m humanised anti-PEM monoclonal antibody, hHMFG1 FREE

A R Al-Yasi, M J Carroll, D Ellison, M Granowska, S J Mather, C A Wells, R Carpenter and K E Britton

Br J Cancer 86: 870-878; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600200

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Molecular and Cellular Pathology

The human ovarian surface epithelium is an androgen responsive tissue FREE

R J Edmondson, J M Monaghan and B R Davies

Br J Cancer 86: 879-885; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600154

Expression of survivin, a novel inhibitor of apoptosis and cell cycle regulatory protein, in pancreatic adenocarcinoma FREE

A I Sarela, C S Verbeke, J Ramsdale, C L Davies, A F Markham and P J Guillou

Br J Cancer 86: 886-892; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600133

Analysis of the cytochrome c-dependent apoptosis apparatus in cells from human pancreatic carcinoma FREE

M C Gerhard, R M Schmid and G Häcker

Br J Cancer 86: 893-898; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600171

Prostate-Specific Ets (PSE) factor: a novel marker for detection of metastatic breast cancer in axillary lymph nodes FREE

M Mitas, K Mikhitarian, L Hoover, M A Lockett, L Kelley, A Hill, W E Gillanders and D J Cole

Br J Cancer 86: 899-904; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600190

Vascular density and phenotype around ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast FREE

N B Teo, B S Shoker, C Jarvis, L Martin, J P Sloane and C Holcombe

Br J Cancer 86: 905-911; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600053

Caveolin-1 overexpression is an early event in the progression of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid 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: 912-916; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600172

Isolation of a SIR-like gene, SIR-T8, that is overexpressed in thyroid carcinoma cell lines and tissues FREE

F de Nigris, J Cerutti, C Morelli, D Califano, L Chiariotti, G Viglietto, G Santelli and A Fusco

Br J Cancer 86: 917-923; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600156

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Genetics and Genomics

Genetic aberrations detected by comparative genomic hybridisation in vulvar cancers FREE

D G Allen, A-M Hutchins, F Hammet, D J White, J P Scurry, S N Tabrizi, S M Garland and J E Armes

Br J Cancer 86: 924-928; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600112

Genetic abnormalities detected in ependymomas by comparative genomic hybridisation FREE

M Carter, J Nicholson, F Ross, J Crolla, R Allibone, V Balaji, R Perry, D Walker, R Gilbertson and D Ellison

Br J Cancer 86: 929-939; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600180

Down-regulation of Lsm1 is involved in human prostate cancer progression FREE

S Takahashi, S Suzuki, S Inaguma, Y-M Cho, Y Ikeda, N Hayashi, T Inoue, Y Sugimura, N Nishiyama, T Fujita, T Ushijima and T Shirai

Br J Cancer 86: 940-946; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600163

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Experimental Therapeutics

Solid stress facilitates spheroid formation: potential involvement of hyaluronan FREE

C Koike, T D McKee, A Pluen, S Ramanujan, K Burton, L L Munn, Y Boucher and R K Jain

Br J Cancer 86: 947-953; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600158

Selection and characterisation of a phage-displayed human antibody (Fab) reactive to the lung resistance-related major vault protein FREE

G L Scheffer, A W Reurs, B Jutten, S H W Beiboer, R van Amerongen, M Schoester, E A C Wiemer, H R Hoogenboom and R J Scheper

Br J Cancer 86: 954-962; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600159

Apoptosis is associated with triacylglycerol accumulation in Jurkat T-cells FREE

N M S Al-Saffar, J C Titley, D Robertson, P A Clarke, L E Jackson, M O Leach and S M Ronen

Br J Cancer 86: 963-970; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600188

Mechanism of action for N-substituted benzamide-induced apoptosis FREE

A R Olsson, H Lindgren, R W Pero and T Leanderson

Br J Cancer 86: 971-978; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600136

Cancer testis antigens expression in mesothelioma: role of DNA methylation and bioimmunotherapeutic implications FREE

L Sigalotti, S Coral, M Altomonte, L Natali, G Gaudino, P Cacciotti, R Libener, F Colizzi, G Vianale, F Martini, M Tognon, A Jungbluth, J Cebon, E Maraskovsky, L Mutti and M Maio

Br J Cancer 86: 979-982; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600174

Consumption of an omega-3 fatty acids product, INCELL AAFA, reduced side-effects of CPT-11 (irinotecan) in mice FREE

W E Hardman, M P Moyer and I L Cameron

Br J Cancer 86: 983-988; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600175

The role of reperfusion injury in photodynamic therapy with 5-aminolaevulinic acid – a study on normal rat colon FREE

A Curnow and S G Bown

Br J Cancer 86: 989-992; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600178

Inhibition of endothelial cell functions and of angiogenesis by the metastasis inhibitor NAMI-A FREE

A Vacca, M Bruno, A Boccarelli, M Coluccia, D Ribatti, A Bergamo, S Garbisa, L Sartor and G Sava

Br J Cancer 86: 993-998; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600176

Circadian optimisation of irinotecan and oxaliplatin efficacy in mice with Glasgow osteosarcoma FREE

T G Granda, R-M D'Attino, E Filipski, P Vrignaud, C Garufi, E Terzoli, M-C Bissery and F Lévi

Br J Cancer 86: 999-1005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600168

Nuclear distribution of porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD) in glioma cells: a regulatory role in cancer transformation? FREE

L Greenbaum, Y Gozlan, D Schwartz, D J Katcoff and Z Malik

Br J Cancer 86: 1006-1011; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600173

TNF-alpha is involved in activating DNA fragmentation in skeletal muscle FREE

N Carbó, S Busquets, M van Royen, B Alvarez, F J López-Soriano and J M Argilés

Br J Cancer 86: 1012-1016; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600167

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Letter to the Editor

Responses to docetaxel plus vinorelbine in metastatic breast cancer patients failing high-dose chemotherapy FREE

R Andres, J I Mayordomo, D Isla, J L Marti, P Escudero, E Filipovich, A Saenz, I Alvarez, E Polo and A Tres

Br J Cancer 86: 1017-1018; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600164

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Book Review

Pathology of incipient neoplasia (3rd edition) FREE

C Fisher

Br J Cancer 86: 1019; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600170

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