Table of contents
Volume 93, Issue 3
Published online 3 August 2005 (271-384)
Editorial
Using mitochondrial DNA as a biosensor of early cancer development FREE
M A Birch-Machin
Br J Cancer 93: 271-272; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602711
Clinical Studies
Elevated neutrophil and monocyte counts in peripheral blood are associated with poor survival in patients with metastatic melanoma: a prognostic model FREE
H Schmidt, L Bastholt, P Geertsen, I J Christensen, S Larsen, J Gehl and H von der Maase
Br J Cancer 93: 273-278; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602702
Surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy vs concurrent chemoradiotherapy in stage III/IV nonmetastatic squamous cell head and neck cancer: a randomised comparison FREE
K-C Soo, E-H Tan, J Wee, D Lim, B-C Tai, M-L Khoo, C Goh, S-S Leong, T Tan, K-W Fong, P Lu, A See and D Machin
Br J Cancer 93: 279-286; advance online publication, July 12, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602696
Risk reduction of contralateral breast cancer and survival after contralateral prophylactic mastectomy in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers FREE
T C van Sprundel, M K Schmidt, M A Rookus, R Brohet, C J van Asperen, E J Th Rutgers, L J van't Veer and R A E M Tollenaar
Br J Cancer 93: 287-292; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602703
A systematic review of taxane-containing regimens for metastatic breast cancer FREE
D Ghersi, N Wilcken and R J Simes
Br J Cancer 93: 293-301; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602680
Translational Therapeutics
A model of quiescent tumour microregions for evaluating multicellular resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs FREE
H R Mellor, D J P Ferguson and R Callaghan
Br J Cancer 93: 302-309; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602710
The retinoid anticancer signal: mechanisms of target gene regulation FREE
T Liu, A Bohlken, S Kuljaca, M Lee, T Nguyen, S Smith, B Cheung, M D Norris, M Haber, A J Holloway, D D L Bowtell and G M Marshall
Br J Cancer 93: 310-318; advance online publication, July 12, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602700
Fluvastatin synergistically enhances the antiproliferative effect of gemcitabine in human pancreatic cancer MIAPaCa-2 cells FREE
G Bocci, A Fioravanti, P Orlandi, N Bernardini, P Collecchi, M Del Tacca and R Danesi
Br J Cancer 93: 319-330; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602720
Molecular Diagnostics
Accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutation with colorectal carcinogenesis in ulcerative colitis FREE
M Nishikawa, N Oshitani, T Matsumoto, T Nishigami, T Arakawa and M Inoue
Br J Cancer 93: 331-337; advance online publication, June 14, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602664
Expression of D-type cyclins in colon cancer and in cell lines from colon carcinomas FREE
A Mermelshtein, A Gerson, S Walfisch, B Delgado, G Shechter-Maor, J Delgado, A Fich and L Gheber
Br J Cancer 93: 338-345; advance online publication, July 12, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602709
Comparison of hypoxia transcriptome in vitro with in vivo gene expression in human bladder cancer FREE
J J Ord, E H Streeter, I S D Roberts, D Cranston and A L Harris
Br J Cancer 93: 346-354; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602666
Mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene are linked to smoking-independent, lung adenocarcinoma FREE
M Sonobe, T Manabe, H Wada and F Tanaka
Br J Cancer 93: 355-363; advance online publication, July 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602707
Reproductive factors and subtypes of breast cancer defined by hormone receptor and histology FREE
G Ursin, L Bernstein, S J Lord, R Karim, D Deapen, M F Press, J R Daling, S A Norman, J M Liff, P A Marchbanks, S G Folger, M S Simon, B L Strom, R T Burkman, L K Weiss and R Spirtas
Br J Cancer 93: 364-371; advance online publication, August 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602712
Epidemiology
Age adjustment of cancer survival rates: methods, point estimates and standard errors FREE
H Brenner and T Hakulinen
Br J Cancer 93: 372-375; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602704
Impact of the introduction of organised screening for cervical cancer in Turin, Italy: cancer incidence by screening history 1992–98 FREE
G Ronco, S Pilutti, S Patriarca, G Montanari, B Ghiringhello, R Volante, L Giordano, R Zanetti, E Mancini, N Segnan and the Turin Cervical Screening Working Group
Br J Cancer 93: 376-378; advance online publication, July 12, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602705
Breastfeeding patterns and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia FREE
M L Kwan, P A Buffler, J L Wiemels, C Metayer, S Selvin, J M Ducore and G Block
Br J Cancer 93: 379-384; advance online publication, July 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602706
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