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Volume 86, Issue 8
Published online 22 April 2002 (1205-1366)

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Obituary

Tom Connors FREE

Br J Cancer 86: 1205-1206; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600292

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Editorial

Getting the right dose in cancer chemotherapy – time to stop using surface area? FREE

D R Newell

Br J Cancer 86: 1207-1208; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600226

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Clinical

Predictive testing for BRCA1/2: attributes, risk perception and management in a multi-centre clinical cohort FREE

C Foster, D G R Evans, R Eeles, D Eccles, S Ashley, L Brooks, R Davidson, J Mackay, P J Morrison and M Watson

Br J Cancer 86: 1209-1216; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600253

Serum CEA and CA 15-3 as prognostic factors in primary breast cancer FREE

F G Ebeling, P Stieber, M Untch, D Nagel, G E Konecny, U M Schmitt, A Fateh-Moghadam and D Seidel

Br J Cancer 86: 1217-1222; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600248

The pattern of recurrence of adenocarcinoma of the oesophago-gastric junction FREE

J Wayman, M K Bennett, S A Raimes and S M Griffin

Br J Cancer 86: 1223-1229; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600252

A phase II study of active specific immunotherapy and5-FU/Leucovorin as adjuvant therapy for stage III colon carcinoma FREE

A Baars, A M E Claessen, J Wagstaff, G Giaccone, R J Scheper, S Meijer, M J A G Schakel, H E Gall, C J L M Meijer, J B Vermorken, H M Pinedo and A J M van den Eertwegh

Br J Cancer 86: 1230-1234; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600254

Is there a dose response relationship for clodronate in the treatment of tumour induced hypercalcaemia? FREE

S Shah, J Hardy, E Rees, J Ling, B Gwilliam, C Davis, K Broadley and R A'Hern

Br J Cancer 86: 1235-1237; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600249

A phase II study of mitomycin C, cisplatin and continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil (MCF) in the treatment of patients with carcinoma of unknown primary site FREE

A G Macdonald, M C Nicolson, L M Samuel, A W Hutcheon and F Y Ahmed

Br J Cancer 86: 1238-1242; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600258

The level of haemoglobin in anaemic cancer patients correlates positively with quality of life FREE

M Lind, C Vernon, D Cruickshank, P Wilkinson, T Littlewood, N Stuart, C Jenkinson, P Grey-Amante, H Doll and D Wild

Br J Cancer 86: 1243-1249; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600247

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Molecular and Cellular Pathology

CXCR4/CXCL12 expression and signalling in kidney cancer FREE

A J Schrader, O Lechner, M Templin, K E J Dittmar, S Machtens, M Mengel, M Probst-Kepper, A Franzke, T Wollensak, P Gatzlaff, J Atzpodien, J Buer and J Lauber

Br J Cancer 86: 1250-1256; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600221

Cimetidine modulates the antigen presenting capacity of dendritic cells from colorectal cancer patients FREE

T Kubota, H Fujiwara, Y Ueda, T Itoh, T Yamashita, T Yoshimura, K Okugawa, Y Yamamoto, Y Yano and H Yamagishi

Br J Cancer 86: 1257-1261; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600233

Molecular changes in the expression of human colonic nutrient transporters during the transition from normality to malignancy FREE

D W Lambert, I S Wood, A Ellis and S P Shirazi-Beechey

Br J Cancer 86: 1262-1269; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600264

Heparanase expression is a prognostic indicator for postoperative survival in pancreatic adenocarcinoma FREE

J Rohloff, J Zinke, K Schoppmeyer, A Tannapfel, H Witzigmann, J Mössner, C Wittekind and K Caca

Br J Cancer 86: 1270-1275; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600232

The hypoxia-inducible genes VEGF and CA9 are differentially regulated in superficial vs invasive bladder cancer FREE

K J Turner, J P Crew, C C Wykoff, P H Watson, R Poulsom, J Pastorek, P J Ratcliffe, D Cranston and A L Harris

Br J Cancer 86: 1276-1282; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600215

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Genetics and Genomics

Gene expression profiles of bladder cancers: evidence for a striking effect of in vitro cell models on gene patterns FREE

V Dangles, V Lazar, P Validire, S Richon, M Wertheimer, V Laville, J-L Janneau, M Barrois, C Bovin, T Poynard, G Vallancien and D Bellet

Br J Cancer 86: 1283-1289; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600239

Cirrhotic livers reveal genetic changes in the MDM2-P14ARF system of cell cycle regulators FREE

T Schlott, J G Scharf, C Gorzel, P Middel and H Spring

Br J Cancer 86: 1290-1296; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600238

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Experimental Therapeutics

How to calculate the dose of chemotherapy FREE

H Gurney

Br J Cancer 86: 1297-1302; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600139

Inhibition of human chondrosarcoma cell growth via apoptosis by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-bold gamma FREE

K Nishida, T Furumatsu, I Takada, A Kawai, A Yoshida, T Kunisada and H Inoue

Br J Cancer 86: 1303-1309; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600241

Nitric oxide of human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell lines promotes tumour cell invasion FREE

A Siegert, C Rosenberg, W D Schmitt, C Denkert and S Hauptmann

Br J Cancer 86: 1310-1315; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600224

Modulation of colony stimulating factor release and apoptosis in human colon cancer cells by anticancer drugs FREE

S Calatayud, T D Warner and J A Mitchell

Br J Cancer 86: 1316-1321; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600240

Effective treatment of experimental U-87MG human glioblastoma in nude mice with a targeted cytotoxic bombesin analogue, AN-215 FREE

Z Szereday, A V Schally, A Nagy, A Plonowski, A M Bajo, G Halmos, K Szepeshazi and K Groot

Br J Cancer 86: 1322-1327; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600235

Antisense epidermal growth factor receptor RNA transfection in human glioblastoma cells down-regulates telomerase activity and telomere length FREE

X-X Tian, J C-S Pang, J Zheng, J Chen, S S T To and H-K Ng

Br J Cancer 86: 1328-1332; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600244

Preclinical evaluation of the antiproliferative potential of STI571 in Hodgkin's disease FREE

D Re, C Wickenhauser, T Ahmadi, E Buchdunger, M Kochanek, V Diehl and J Wolf

Br J Cancer 86: 1333-1335; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600243

Induction of viral and tumour specific CTL responses using antibody targeted HLA class I peptide complexes FREE

P Savage, P Cowburn, A Clayton, S Man, A McMichael, N Lemoine, A Epenetos and G Ogg

Br J Cancer 86: 1336-1342; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600223

Aminolaevulinic acid-induced photodynamic therapy: cellular responses to glucose starvation FREE

L Wyld, M Tomlinson, M W R Reed and N J Brown

Br J Cancer 86: 1343-1347; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600234

In vitro evaluation of amino acid prodrugs of novel antitumour 2-(4-amino-3-methylphenyl)benzothiazoles FREE

T D Bradshaw, M-S Chua, H L Browne, V Trapani, E A Sausville and M F G Stevens

Br J Cancer 86: 1348-1354; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600225

Expression pattern of the urokinase-plasminogen activator system in rat DS-sarcoma: Role of oxygenation status and tumour size FREE

M Weinmann, O Thews, T Schroeder and P Vaupel

Br J Cancer 86: 1355-1361; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600237

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Letters to the Editor

bold gamma-Heregulin has no biological significance in primary breast cancer FREE

E A Sánchez-Valdivieso, J J Cruz, R Salazar, M del Mar Abad, A Gómez-Alonso, A Gómez and R González-Sarmiento

Br J Cancer 86: 1362-1363; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600245

Early life exposure to oestrogen and testicular cancer risk: evidence against an aetiological hypothesis FREE

C C Hsieh, M Lambe, D Trichopoulos, A Ekbom, O Akre and H-O Adami

Br J Cancer 86: 1363-1364; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600246

Thymidylate synthase polymorphism and survival of colorectal cancer patients treated with 5-fluorouracil FREE

C M Ulrich and J D Potter

Br J Cancer 86: 1365; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600229

Reply: Thymidylate synthase polymorphism and survival of colorectal cancer patients treated with 5-fluorouracil FREE

B Iacopetta and H Elsaleh

Br J Cancer 86: 1366; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600230

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