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Volume 88, Issue 2
Published online 28 January 2003 (163-333)

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Endothelin-1: a multifunctional molecule in cancer FREE

K Grant, M Loizidou and I Taylor

Br J Cancer 88: 163-166; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6700750

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Review

Chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: past results and recent developments FREE

S Tomek, S Emri, K Krejcy and C Manegold

Br J Cancer 88: 167-174; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600673

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Clinical

Temozolomide followed by combined immunotherapy with GM-CSF, low-dose IL2 and IFNalpha in patients with metastatic melanoma FREE

G C de Gast, D Batchelor, M J Kersten, F A Vyth-Dreese, J Sein, W F van de Kasteele, W J Nooijen, O E Nieweg, M A de Waal and W Boogerd

Br J Cancer 88: 175-180; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600717

Baseline and early lymphopenia predict for the risk of febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy FREE

I Ray-Coquard, C Borg, Th Bachelot, C Sebban, I Philip, G Clapisson, A Le Cesne, P Biron, F Chauvin and J Y Blay for the ELYPSE study group

Br J Cancer 88: 181-186; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600724

Outpatient weekly neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: high complete response and low toxicity rates FREE

J-C Lin, J-S Jan, C-Y Hsu, R-S Jiang and W-Y Wang

Br J Cancer 88: 187-194; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600716

Percentage of the positive area of bone metastasis is an independent predictor of disease death in advanced prostate cancer FREE

M Noguchi, H Kikuchi, M Ishibashi and S Noda

Br J Cancer 88: 195-201; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600715

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Molecular and Cellular Pathology

Interaction between Ku80 protein and a widely used antibody to adenomatous polyposis coli FREE

G T Roberts, M L Davies and J A Wakeman

Br J Cancer 88: 202-205; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600732

Transcriptional impairment of beta-catenin/E-cadherin complex is not associated with beta-catenin mutations in colorectal carcinomas FREE

G A Garinis, N E Spanakis, P G Menounos, E N Manolis and G Peros

Br J Cancer 88: 206-209; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600706

Aberrant caspase-activated DNase (CAD) transcripts in human hepatoma cells FREE

S Y Hsieh, S F Liaw, S N Lee, P S Hsieh, K H Lin, C M Chu and Y F Liaw

Br J Cancer 88: 210-216; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600695

Methylation status of p14ARF and p16INK4a as detected in pancreatic secretions FREE

B Klump, C J Hsieh, O Nehls, S Dette, K Holzmann, R Kies zliglich, M Jung, U Sinn, M Ortner, R Porschen and M Gregor

Br J Cancer 88: 217-222; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600734

Effector CD8+CD45RO-CD27-T cells have signalling defects in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck FREE

I Kuss, A D Donnenberg, W Gooding and T L Whiteside

Br J Cancer 88: 223-230; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600694

CD24 is an independent prognostic marker of survival in nonsmall cell lung cancer patients FREE

G Kristiansen, K Schlüns, Y Yongwei, C Denkert, M Dietel and I Petersen

Br J Cancer 88: 231-236; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600702

Vascular endothelial growth factor-D is an independent prognostic factor in epithelial ovarian carcinoma FREE

Y Yokoyama, D S Charnock-Jones, D Licence, A Yanaihara, J M Hastings, C M Holland, M Emoto, M Umemoto, T Sakamoto, S Sato, H Mizunuma and S K Smith

Br J Cancer 88: 237-244; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600701

Prognostic significance of positive peritoneal cytology in endometrial carcinoma confined to the uterus FREE

T Kasamatsu, T Onda, N Katsumata, M Sawada, T Yamada, R Tsunematsu, K Ohmi, Y Sasajima and Y Matsuno

Br J Cancer 88: 245-250; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600698

Immunohistochemical analysis of p53 in vulval intraepithelial neoplasia and vulval squamous cell carcinoma FREE

A N Rosenthal, D Hopster, A Ryan and I J Jacobs

Br J Cancer 88: 251-256; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600677

Minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) proteins, cyclin B1 and D1, phosphohistone H3 and in situ DNA replication for functional analysis of vulval intraepithelial neoplasia FREE

E J Davidson, L S Morris, I S Scott, S M Rushbrook, K Bird, R A Laskey, G E Wilson, H C Kitchener, N Coleman and P L Stern

Br J Cancer 88: 257-262; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600729

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Genetics and Genomics

Polymorphism of the insulin gene is associated with increased prostate cancer risk FREE

G Y F Ho, A Melman, S-M Liu, M Li, H Yu, A Negassa, R D Burk, A W Hsing, R Ghavamian and S C Chua Jr

Br J Cancer 88: 263-269; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600747

Analysis of the candidate 8p21 tumour suppressor, BNIP3L, in breast and ovarian cancer FREE

J Lai, J Flanagan, W A Phillips, G Chenevix-Trench and J Arnold

Br J Cancer 88: 270-276; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600674

IGF1 genotype, mean plasma level and breast cancer risk in the Hawaii/Los Angeles multiethnic cohort FREE

K DeLellis, S Ingles, L Kolonel, R McKean-Cowdin, B Henderson, F Stanczyk and N M Probst-Hensch

Br J Cancer 88: 277-282; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600728

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Experimental Therapeutics

Foscan® uptake and tissue distribution in relation to photodynamic efficacy FREE

P Cramers, M Ruevekamp, H Oppelaar, O Dalesio, P Baas and F A Stewart

Br J Cancer 88: 283-290; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600682

Intratumour heterogeneity in the uptake of macromolecular therapeutic agents in human melanoma xenografts FREE

B A Graff, Y Kvinnsland, A Skretting and E K Rofstad

Br J Cancer 88: 291-297; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600680

A mechanism of resistance to TRAIL/Apo2L-induced apoptosis of newly established glioma cell line and sensitisation to TRAIL by genotoxic agents FREE

Y Arizono, H Yoshikawa, H Naganuma, Y Hamada, Y Nakajima and K Tasaka

Br J Cancer 88: 298-306; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600666

A novel hypoxia-dependent 2-nitroimidazole KIN-841 inhibits tumour-specific angiogenesis by blocking production of angiogenic factors FREE

M Shimamura, H Nagasawa, H Ashino, Y Yamamoto, T Hazato, Y Uto, H Hori and S Inayama

Br J Cancer 88: 307-313; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600667

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Genetics and Genomics

Degree of tumour vascularity correlates with drug accumulation and tumour response upon TNF-alpha-based isolated hepatic perfusion FREE

B van Etten, M R de Vries, M G A van IJken, T E Lans, G Guetens, G Ambagtsheer, S T van Tiel, G de Boeck, E A de Bruijn, A M M Eggermont and T L M ten Hagen

Br J Cancer 88: 314-319; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600707

Restored T-cell activation mechanisms in human tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes from melanomas and colorectal carcinomas after exposure to interleukin-2 FREE

F De Paola, R Ridolfi, A Riccobon, E Flamini, F Barzanti, A M Granato, G L Mordenti, L Medri, P Vitali and D Amadori

Br J Cancer 88: 320-326; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600679

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Experimental Therapeutics

Expression level of integrin alpha5 on tumour cells affects the rate of metastasis to the kidney FREE

N Tani, S Higashiyama, N Kawaguchi, J Madarame, I Ota, Y Ito, Y Ohoka, S Shiosaka, Y Takada and N Matsuura

Br J Cancer 88: 327-333; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600710

The published online date indicates the date that the issue is published online and is the first official publication date of the issue. Each print issue of BJC is published one week after it has been published online.

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