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Volume 92, Issue 6
Published online 22 March 2005 (985-1177)

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Minireview

SNAIL vs vitamin D receptor expression in colon cancer: therapeutics implications FREE

M J Larriba and A Muñoz

Br J Cancer 92: 985-989; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602484

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Clinical Studies

The psychological impact of human papillomavirus testing in women with borderline or mildly dyskaryotic cervical smear test results: 6-month follow-up FREE

E Maissi, T M Marteau, M Hankins, S Moss, R Legood and A Gray

Br J Cancer 92: 990-994; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602411

Suicides among Danish cancer patients 1971–1999 FREE

U Yousaf, M-LM Christensen, G Engholm and H H Storm

Br J Cancer 92: 995-1000; advance online publication, March 1, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602424

Patient motivations surrounding participation in phase I and phase II clinical trials of cancer chemotherapy FREE

Z A Nurgat, W Craig, N C Campbell, J D Bissett, J Cassidy and M C Nicolson

Br J Cancer 92: 1001-1005; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602423

Phase I study of temozolomide plus paclitaxel in patients with advanced malignant melanoma and associated in vitro investigations FREE

A Azzabi, A N Hughes, P M Calvert, E R Plummer, R Todd, M J Griffin, M J Lind, A Maraveyas, C Kelly, K Fishwick, A H Calvert and A V Boddy

Br J Cancer 92: 1006-1012; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602438

Phase II study of weekly vinorelbine and 24-h infusion of high-dose 5-fluorouracil plus leucovorin as first-line treatment of advanced breast cancer FREE

K H Yeh, Y S Lu, C H Hsu, J F Lin, H J Chao, T C Huang, C Y Chung, C S Chang, C H Yang and A L Cheng

Br J Cancer 92: 1013-1018; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602469

Phase I/II study of oral etoposide plus GM-CSF as second-line chemotherapy in platinum-pretreated patients with advanced ovarian cancer FREE

M Baur, E Schernhammer, M Gneist, P Sevelda, P Speiser, M Hudec and Ch Dittrich

Br J Cancer 92: 1019-1025; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602427

Secondary cytoreductive surgery for recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma: proposal for patients selection FREE

T Onda, H Yoshikawa, T Yasugi, M Yamada, K Matsumoto and Y Taketani

Br J Cancer 92: 1026-1032; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602466

Survival following lobectomy vs limited resection for stage I lung cancer: a meta-analysis FREE

H Nakamura, N Kawasaki, M Taguchi and K Kabasawa

Br J Cancer 92: 1033-1037; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602414

A prospective, randomised study to compare two palliative radiotherapy schedules for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) FREE

E Senkus-Konefka, R Dziadziuszko, E Bednaruk-Ml strokeyn acuteski, A Pliszka, J Kubrak, A Lewandowska, K Mal strokeachowski, M Wierzchowski, M Matecka-Nowak and J Jassem

Br J Cancer 92: 1038-1045; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602477

Impact of combined 18F-FDG PET/CT in head and neck tumours FREE

R Syed, J B Bomanji, N Nagabhushan, S Hughes, I Kayani, A Groves, S Gacinovic, N Hydes, D Visvikis, C Copland and P J Ell

Br J Cancer 92: 1046-1050; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602464

Over-D1 dissection may question the value of radiotherapy as a part of an adjuvant programme in high-risk radically resected gastric cancer patients FREE

M Scartozzi, E Galizia, F Graziano, V Catalano, R Berardi, A M Baldelli, E Testa, D Mari, R R Silva and S Cascinu

Br J Cancer 92: 1051-1054; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602468

Optimisation of irinotecan dose in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer after 5-FU failure: results from a multinational, randomised phase II study FREE

E Van Cutsem, L Dirix, J-L Van Laethem, S Van Belle, M Borner, M Gonzalez Baron, A Roth, R Morant, E Joosens, G Gruia, D Sibaud and H Bleiberg

Br J Cancer 92: 1055-1062; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602462

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Translational Therapeutics

Epidermal growth factor receptor double targeting by a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (Iressa) and a monoclonal antibody (Cetuximab). Impact on cell growth and molecular factors FREE

J-L Fischel, P Formento and G Milano

Br J Cancer 92: 1063-1068; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602428

Engineering and characterisation of chimeric monoclonal antibody 806 (ch806) for targeted immunotherapy of tumours expressing de2-7 EGFR or amplified EGFR FREE

C Panousis, V M Rayzman, T G Johns, C Renner, Z Liu, G Cartwright, F-T Lee, D Wang, H Gan, D Cao, A Kypridis, F E Smyth, M W Brechbiel, A W Burgess, L J Old and A M Scott

Br J Cancer 92: 1069-1077; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602470

MET signalling in primary colon epithelial cells leads to increased transformation irrespective of aberrant Wnt signalling FREE

E M J Boon, M Kovarikova, P W B Derksen and R van der Neut

Br J Cancer 92: 1078-1083; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602405

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Molecular Diagnostics

Dexamethasone-induced cisplatin and gemcitabine resistance in lung carcinoma samples treated ex vivo  FREE

N Gassler, C Zhang, T Wenger, P A Schnabel, H Dienemann, K-M Debatin, J Mattern and I Herr

Br J Cancer 92: 1084-1088; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602453

Targeting of Rad51-dependent homologous recombination: implications for the radiation sensitivity of human lung cancer cell lines FREE

A Sak, G Stueben, M Groneberg, W Böcker and M Stuschke

Br J Cancer 92: 1089-1097; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602457

K-ras mutation in the endometrium of tamoxifen-treated breast cancer patients, with a comparison of tamoxifen and toremifene FREE

T Hachisuga, H Tsujioka, S Horiuchi, T Udou, M Emoto and T Kawarabayashi

Br J Cancer 92: 1098-1103; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602456

Long-term morphological and hormonal follow-up in a single unit on 115 patients with adrenal incidentalomas FREE

G P Bernini, A Moretti, C Oriandini, M Bardini, C Taurino and A Salvetti

Br J Cancer 92: 1104-1109; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602459

Efficacy of epidermal growth factor receptor-targeted molecular therapy in anaplastic thyroid cancer cell lines FREE

Y Nobuhara, N Onoda, Y Yamashita, M Yamasaki, K Ogisawa, T Takashima, T Ishikawa and K Hirakawa

Br J Cancer 92: 1110-1116; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602461

Aberrant promoter methylation in human DAB2 interactive protein (hDAB2IP) gene in gastrointestinal tumour FREE

H Dote, S Toyooka, K Tsukuda, M Yano, T Ota, M Murakami, M Naito, M Toyota, A F Gazdar and N Shimizu

Br J Cancer 92: 1117-1125; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602458

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Genetics and Genomics

Mutation analysis of three genes encoding novel LKB1-interacting proteins, BRG1, STRADalpha, and MO25alpha, in Peutz–Jeghers syndrome FREE

P Alhopuro, P Katajisto, R Lehtonen, S K Ylisaukko-oja, L Näätsaari, A Karhu, A M Westerman, J H P Wilson, F W M de Rooij, T Vogel, G Moeslein, I P Tomlinson, L A Aaltonen, T P Mäkelä and V Launonen

Br J Cancer 92: 1126-1129; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602454

Gene expression profiles in human gastric cancer: expression of maspin correlates with lymph node metastasis FREE

M Terashima, C Maesawa, K Oyama, S Ohtani, Y Akiyama, S Ogasawara, A Takagane, K Saito, T Masuda, N Kanzaki, S Matsuyama, Y Hoshino, M Kogure, M Gotoh, M Shirane and K Mori

Br J Cancer 92: 1130-1136; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602429

Aspirin-induced nuclear translocation of NFkappaB and apoptosis in colorectal cancer is independent of p53 status and DNA mismatch repair proficiency FREE

F V N Din, L A Stark and M G Dunlop

Br J Cancer 92: 1137-1143; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602455

The R72P P53 mutation is associated with familial breast cancer in Jewish women FREE

T Ohayon, R Gershoni-Baruch, M Z Papa, T Distelman Menachem, S Eisenberg Barzilai and E Friedman

Br J Cancer 92: 1144-1148; advance online publication, March 1, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602451

Identification of genes associated with platinum drug sensitivity and resistance in human ovarian cancer cells FREE

D Roberts, J Schick, S Conway, S Biade, P B Laub, J P Stevenson, T C Hamilton, P J O'Dwyer and S W Johnson

Br J Cancer 92: 1149-1158; advance online publication, February 22, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602447

Mutation screening and association study of RNASEL as a prostate cancer susceptibility gene FREE

C Maier, J Haeusler, K Herkommer, Z Vesovic, J Hoegel, W Vogel and T Paiss

Br J Cancer 92: 1159-1164; advance online publication, February 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602401

Aberrant DNA methylation associated with silencing BNIP3 gene expression in haematopoietic tumours FREE

M Murai, M Toyota, A Satoh, H Suzuki, K Akino, H Mita, Y Sasaki, T Ishida, L Shen, G Garcia-Manero, J-P J Issa, Y Hinoda, T Tokino and K Imai

Br J Cancer 92: 1165-1172; advance online publication, March 8, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602422

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Letters to the Editor

Aromatase inhibitors in advanced breast cancer: there are efficacy differences FREE

A S Bhatnagar

Br J Cancer 92: 1173-1174; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602434

Reply: aromatase inhibition in advanced breast cancer: no conclusive evidence of efficacy differences FREE

R Sainsbury

Br J Cancer 92: 1175-1176; advance online publication, March 15, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602435

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Book Review

Principles of Molecular Pathology FREE

K Stoeber

Br J Cancer 92: 1177; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602482

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