Table of contents
Volume 86, Issue 7
Published online 8 April 2002 (1021-1203)
Minireview |
Clinical |
Epidemiology |
Molecular and Cellular Pathology |
Experimental Therapeutics
Editorial
Clues from hypercalcaemia FREE
S Nicholson and J Waxman
Br J Cancer 86: 1021-1022; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600220
Minireview
Translation initiation and its deregulation during tumorigenesis FREE
S J Watkins and C J Norbury
Br J Cancer 86: 1023-1027; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600222
Clinical
Reduced 5-FU clearance in a patient with low DPD activity due to heterozygosity for a mutant allele of the DPYD gene FREE
J G Maring, A B P van Kuilenburg, J Haasjes, H Piersma, H J M Groen, D R A Uges, A H Van Gennip and E G E De Vries
Br J Cancer 86: 1028-1033; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600208
Patient delay and stage of diagnosis among breast cancer patients in Germany – a population based study FREE
V Arndt, T Stürmer, C Stegmaier, H Ziegler, G Dhom and H Brenner
Br J Cancer 86: 1034-1040; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600209
Prognostic significance of a complete pathological response after induction chemotherapy in operable breast cancer FREE
P Chollet, S Amat, H Cure, M de Latour, G Le Bouedec, M-A Mouret-Reynier, J-P Ferriere, J-L Achard, J Dauplat and F Penault-Llorca
Br J Cancer 86: 1041-1046; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600210
The presence of bone marrow cytokeratin-immunoreactive cells does not predict outcome in gastric cancer patients FREE
G de Manzoni, G Pelosi, F Pavanel, A Di Leo, C Pedrazzani, E Durante, C Cordiano and F Pasini
Br J Cancer 86: 1047-1051; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600211
Cancer Research UK procedures in manufacture and toxicology of radiotracers intended for Pre-phase I positron emission tomography studies in cancer patients FREE
E O Aboagye, S K Luthra, F Brady, K Poole, H Anderson, T Jones, A Boobis, S S Burtles and P Price
Br J Cancer 86: 1052-1056; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600212
Do not attempt resuscitation decisions in a cancer centre: addressing difficult ethical and communication issues FREE
C Reid and D Jeffrey
Br J Cancer 86: 1057-1060; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600205
Epidemiology
Age-specific incidence rates for cytogenetically-defined subtypes of acute myeloid leukaemia FREE
A V Moorman, E Roman, R A Cartwright and G J Morgan
Br J Cancer 86: 1061-1063; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600195
Day-care, early common infections and childhood acute leukaemia: a multicentre French case–control study FREE
F Perrillat, J Clavel, M F Auclerc, A Baruchel, G Leverger, B Nelken, N Philippe, G Schaison, D Sommelet, E Vilmer and D Hémon
Br J Cancer 86: 1064-1069; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600091
An infectious aetiology for childhood brain tumours? Evidence from space–time clustering and seasonality analyses FREE
R J Q McNally, D P Cairns, O B Eden, F E Alexander, G M Taylor, A M Kelsey and J M Birch
Br J Cancer 86: 1070-1077; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600228
Childhood malignancy and maternal diabetes or other auto-immune disease during pregnancy FREE
L Westbom, A Åberg and B Källén
Br J Cancer 86: 1078-1080; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600192
Gallstones, cholecystectomy, and the risk for developing pancreatic cancer FREE
E S Schernhammer, D S Michaud, M F Leitzmann, E Giovannucci, G A Colditz and C S Fuchs
Br J Cancer 86: 1081-1084; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600193
A pooled analysis of 10 case–control studies of melanoma and oral contraceptive use FREE
M R Karagas, T A Stukel, J Dykes, J Miglionico, M A Greene, M Carey, B Armstrong, J M Elwood, R P Gallagher, A Green, E A Holly, C S Kirkpatrick, T Mack, A Østerlind, S Rosso and A J Swerdlow
Br J Cancer 86: 1085-1092; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600196
Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Identifying pre-post chemotherapy differences in gene expression in breast tumours: a statistical method appropriate for this aim FREE
E L Korn, L M McShane, J F Troendle, A Rosenwald and R Simon
Br J Cancer 86: 1093-1096; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600216
Fibroblast growth factor 8 is expressed at higher levels in lactating human breast and in breast cancer FREE
C Zammit, R Coope, J J Gomm, S Shousha, C L Johnston and R C Coombes
Br J Cancer 86: 1097-1103; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600213
Dominant negative knockout of p53 abolishes ErbB2-dependent apoptosis and permits growth acceleration in human breast cancer cells FREE
G C Huang, S Hobbs, M Walton and R J Epstein
Br J Cancer 86: 1104-1109; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600219
Experience with International Neuroblastoma Staging System and Pathology Classification FREE
H Ikeda, T Iehara, Y Tsuchida, M Kaneko, J Hata, H Naito, M Iwafuchi, N Ohnuma, H Mugishima, Y Toyoda, M Hamazaki, J Mimaya, S Kondo, K Kawa, A Okada, E Hiyama, S Suita and H Takamatsu
Br J Cancer 86: 1110-1116; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600231
The molecular pathology of p53 in primitive neuroectodermal tumours of the central nervous system FREE
A S Y W Burns, E Jaros, M Cole, R Perry, A J Pearson and J Lunec
Br J Cancer 86: 1117-1123; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600151
Nuclear 
-catenin expression is closely related to ulcerative growth of colorectal carcinoma FREE
J M Chiang, Y H Wu Chou, T C Chen, K F Ng and J L Lin
Br J Cancer 86: 1124-1129; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600214
Photodynamic therapy of DNA mismatch repair-deficient and -proficient tumour cells FREE
V A Schwarz, R Hornung, A Fedier, M K Fehr, H Walt, U Haller and D Fink
Br J Cancer 86: 1130-1135; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600218
Experimental Therapeutics
Role of proteolytic enzymes in human prostate bone metastasis formation: in vivo and in vitro studies FREE
C A Hart, L J Scott, S Bagley, A A G Bryden, N W Clarke and S H Lang
Br J Cancer 86: 1136-1142; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600207
Phosphorothioate oligonucleotides, suramin and heparin inhibit DNA-dependent protein kinase activity FREE
Y Hosoi, Y Matsumoto, M Tomita, A Enomoto, A Morita, K Sakai, N Umeda, H-J Zhao, K Nakagawa, T Ono and N Suzuki
Br J Cancer 86: 1143-1149; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600191
Inhibitor of cyclooxygenase-2 induces cell-cycle arrest in the epithelial cancer cell line via up-regulation of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21 FREE
T Toyoshima, R Kamijo, K Takizawa, K Sumitani, D Ito and M Nagumo
Br J Cancer 86: 1150-1156; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600183
ZD1839 ('Iressa'), a specific oral epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor, potentiates radiotherapy in a human colorectal cancer xenograft model FREE
K J Williams, B A Telfer, I J Stratford and S R Wedge
Br J Cancer 86: 1157-1161; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600182
Impact of the oxaliplatin-5 fluorouracil-folinic acid combination on respective intracellular determinants of drug activity FREE
J L Fischel, P Formento, J Ciccolini, P Rostagno, M C Etienne, J Catalin and G Milano
Br J Cancer 86: 1162-1168; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600185
Laminin 
1 chain peptide, C-16 (KAFDITYVRLKF), promotes migration, MMP-9 secretion, and pulmonary metastasis of B16–F10 mouse melanoma cells FREE
Y Kuratomi, M Nomizu, K Tanaka, M L Ponce, S Komiyama, H K Kleinman and Y Yamada
Br J Cancer 86: 1169-1173; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600187
Isolated limb perfusion with actinomycin D and TNF-alpha results in improved tumour response in soft-tissue sarcoma-bearing rats but is accompanied by severe local toxicity FREE
A L B Seynhaeve, J H W de Wilt, S T van Tiel, A M M Eggermont and T L M ten Hagen
Br J Cancer 86: 1174-1179; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600169
Detection of polyol accumulation in a new ovarian carcinoma cell line, CABA I: a1H NMR study FREE
A Ferretti, S D'Ascenzo, A Knijn, E Iorio, V Dolo, A Pavan and F Podo
Br J Cancer 86: 1180-1187; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600189
Mechanisms of nordihydroguaiaretic acid-induced growth inhibition and apoptosis in human cancer cells FREE
T Seufferlein, M J Seckl, E Schwarz, M Beil, G v Wichert, H Baust, H Lührs, R M Schmid and G Adler
Br J Cancer 86: 1188-1196; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600186
213Bi-PAI2 conjugate selectively induces apoptosis in PC3 metastatic prostate cancer cell line and shows anti-cancer activity in a xenograft animal model FREE
Y Li, S M A Rizvi, M Ranson and B J Allen
Br J Cancer 86: 1197-1203; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600179
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