Table of contents
Volume 94, Issue 5
Published online 7 March 2006 (609-770)
Minireviews
Experimental designs for phase I and phase I/II dose-finding studies FREE
J O'Quigley and S Zohar
Br J Cancer 94: 609-613; advance online publication, January 24, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602969
Targeted therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma FREE
P H Patel, R S K Chaganti and R J Motzer
Br J Cancer 94: 614-619; advance online publication, February 7, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602978
Tumours and tremors: how PTEN regulation underlies both FREE
R H Kim and T W Mak
Br J Cancer 94: 620-624; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602994
Clinical Studies
Concurrent chemotherapy (carboplatin, paclitaxel, etoposide) and involved-field radiotherapy in limited stage small cell lung cancer: a Dutch multicenter phase II study FREE
P Baas, J S A Belderbos, S Senan, H B Kwa, A van Bochove, H van Tinteren, J A Burgers and J P van Meerbeeck
Br J Cancer 94: 625-630; advance online publication, February 7, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602979
Gefitinib (ZD1839, Iressa™) as palliative treatment in recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer FREE
A M Kirby, R P A'Hern, C D'Ambrosio, M Tanay, K N Syrigos, S J Rogers, C Box, S A Eccles, C M Nutting and K J Harrington
Br J Cancer 94: 631-636; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602999
Evaluation of an inflammation-based prognostic score in patients with inoperable gastro-oesophageal cancer FREE
A B C Crumley, D C McMillan, M McKernan, A C McDonald and R C Stuart
Br J Cancer 94: 637-641; advance online publication, February 14, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602998
Uterine papillary serous and clear cell carcinomas predict for poorer survival compared to grade 3 endometrioid corpus cancers FREE
C A Hamilton, M K Cheung, K Osann, L Chen, N N Teng, T A Longacre, M A Powell, M R Hendrickson, D S Kapp and J K Chan
Br J Cancer 94: 642-646; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603012
The influence of allogenic blood transfusion in patients having free-flap primary surgery for oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma FREE
T Szakmany, M Dodd, G A Dempsey, D Lowe, J S Brown, E D Vaughan and S N Rogers
Br J Cancer 94: 647-653; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603013
Translational Therapeutics
A selective retinoid X receptor agonist bexarotene (LGD1069, targretin) inhibits angiogenesis and metastasis in solid tumours FREE
W-C Yen, R Y Prudente, M R Corpuz, A Negro-Vilar and W W Lamph
Br J Cancer 94: 654-660; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602995
E-cadherin transcriptional downregulation by promoter methylation but not mutation is related to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cell lines FREE
M Lombaerts, T van Wezel, K Philippo, J W F Dierssen, R M E Zimmerman, J Oosting, R van Eijk, P H Eilers, B van de Water, C J Cornelisse and A-M Cleton-Jansen
Br J Cancer 94: 661-671; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602996
Molecular Diagnostics
Real-time RT–PCR detection of disseminated tumour cells in bone marrow has superior prognostic significance in comparison with circulating tumour cells in patients with breast cancer FREE
I H Benoy, H Elst, M Philips, H Wuyts, P Van Dam, S Scharpé, E Van Marck, P B Vermeulen and L Y Dirix
Br J Cancer 94: 672-680; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602985
Multimarker RT–PCR assay for the detection of minimal residual disease in sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer patients FREE
A Nissan, D Jager, M Roystacher, D Prus, T Peretz, I Eisenberg, H R Freund, M Scanlan, G Ritter, L J Old and S Mitrani-Rosenbaum
Br J Cancer 94: 681-685; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602992
Tissue microarray analysis of human FRAT1 expression and its correlation with the subcellular localisation of 
-catenin in ovarian tumours FREE
Y Wang, S M Hewitt, S Liu, X Zhou, H Zhu, C Zhou, G Zhang, L Quan, J Bai and N Xu
Br J Cancer 94: 686-691; advance online publication, February 14, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602988
Clinicopathological significance of mitochondrial D-Loop mutations in head and neck carcinoma FREE
A Lièvre, H Blons, A M Houllier, O Laccourreye, D Brasnu, P Beaune and P Laurent-Puig
Br J Cancer 94: 692-697; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602993
Ubiquitous mitochondrial creatine kinase downregulated in oral squamous cell carcinoma FREE
T Onda, K Uzawa, Y Endo, H Bukawa, H Yokoe, T Shibahara and H Tanzawa
Br J Cancer 94: 698-709; advance online publication, February 14, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602986
Expression of Y-box-binding protein dbpC/contrin, a potentially new cancer/testis antigen FREE
Y Kohno, Y Matsuki, A Tanimoto, H Izumi, T Uchiumi, K Kohno, S Shimajiri and Y Sasaguri
Br J Cancer 94: 710-716; advance online publication, February 14, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602987
Overexpression of stathmin in oral squamous-cell carcinoma: correlation with tumour progression and poor prognosis FREE
Y Kouzu, K Uzawa, H Koike, K Saito, D Nakashima, M Higo, Y Endo, A Kasamatsu, M Shiiba, H Bukawa, H Yokoe and H Tanzawa
Br J Cancer 94: 717-723; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602991
Expression of a disintegrin and metalloprotease (ADAM and ADAMTS) enzymes in human non-small-cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) FREE
N Rocks, G Paulissen, F Quesada Calvo, M Polette, M Gueders, C Munaut, J-M Foidart, A Noel, P Birembaut and D Cataldo
Br J Cancer 94: 724-730; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602990
Expression of the proteolysis-inducing factor core peptide mRNA is upregulated in both tumour and adjacent normal tissue in gastro-oesophageal malignancy FREE
D A C Deans, S J Wigmore, H Gilmour, M J Tisdale, K C H Fearon and J A Ross
Br J Cancer 94: 731-736; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602989
Epidemiology
The effect of interaction between hepatitis C virus and cigarette smoking on the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma FREE
Y Fujita, A Shibata, I Ogimoto, Y Kurozawa, T Nose, T Yoshimura, H Suzuki, N Iwai, R Sakata, S Ichikawa and A Tamakoshi for the JACC Study Group
Br J Cancer 94: 737-739; advance online publication, February 7, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602981
Association of body mass index and height with risk of prostate cancer among middle-aged Japanese men FREE
N Kurahashi, M Iwasaki, S Sasazuki, T Otani, M Inoue and S Tsugane for the JPHC Study Group
Br J Cancer 94: 740-742; advance online publication, February 7, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602983
Comparison of risk patterns in carcinoma and melanoma of the skin in men: a multi-centre case–case–control study FREE
R Zanetti, S Rosso, C Martinez, A Nieto, A Miranda, M Mercier, D I Loria, A Østerlind, R Greinert, C Navarro, G Fabbrocini, C Barbera, H Sancho-Garnier, L Gafà, A Chiarugi and R Mossotti for the Helios Working Group
Br J Cancer 94: 743-751; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602982
The association between antihypertensive drugs and glioma FREE
M P W A Houben, J W W Coebergh, R M C Herings, M K Casparie, C C Tijssen, C M van Duijn and B H Ch Stricker
Br J Cancer 94: 752-756; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603000
Alcohol intake and ovarian cancer risk: a pooled analysis of 10 cohort studies FREE
J M Genkinger, D J Hunter, D Spiegelman, K E Anderson, J E Buring, J L Freudenheim, R A Goldbohm, L Harnack, S E Hankinson, S C Larsson, M Leitzmann, M L McCullough, J Marshall, A B Miller, C Rodriguez, T E Rohan, A Schatzkin, L J Schouten, A Wolk, S M Zhang and S A Smith-Warner
Br J Cancer 94: 757-762; advance online publication, February 21, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603020
Spatial and space–time clustering of childhood acute leukaemia in France from 1990 to 2000: a nationwide study FREE
S Bellec, D Hémon, J Rudant, A Goubin and J Clavel
Br J Cancer 94: 763-770; advance online publication, February 14, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602980
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