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:Metals and metal compounds have been used in medicine for several thousands of years. In this review we summarized the anti-cancer activities of the ten most active metals: arsenic, antimony, bismuth, gold, vanadium, iron, rhodium, titanium, gallium and platinum. The first reviewed metal, arsenic, presents the anomaly of displaying anti-cancer and oncogenic properties simultaneously. Some antimony derivatives, such as Sb2O3, salt (tartrate) and organic compounds, show interesting results. Bismuth directly affects Helicobacter pylori and gastric lymphoma; the effects of bismuth complexes of 6-mercaptopurine are promising. Gold(I) and (III) compounds show anti-tumour activities, although toxicity remains high. Research into the potential use of gold derivatives is still ongoing. Several derivatives of vanadium show anti-proliferative activity, but their toxicity must be overcome. Several pieces of evidence indicate that iron deprivation could be an excellent therapeutic approach; furthermore, it is synergistic with classic anti-cancer drugs. Rhodium belongs to the same group as platinum and it also presents interesting activity, but with the same nephrotoxicity. Several rhodium compounds have entered phase I clinical trials. In contrast to the platinum complexes, titanium derivatives showed no evidence of nephrotoxicity or myelotoxicity; titanocene dichloride is undergoing clinical trial. The anti-proliferative effect of gallium could be related to its competition with the iron atom; in addition a derivative appears to reverse the multidrug resistance. The last metal reviewed, platinum, has given some of the very best anti-cancer drugs. Four derivatives are used today in the clinic; their mechanism of action and of resistance are described.
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杂志文章,评审abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the prognostic value of DNA multiploidy in a prospective study on frozen surgical tissue samples from primary colorectal cancer. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Survival data from eleven prospective studies collectively comprising about thirteen hundred patients showed that aneuploidy correlated with a 5-...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study investigates the treatment management and survival of inoperable advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The objective was to treat all patients with induction chemotherapy and then to stratify them for surgery, radiotherapy, second-line chemotherapy or supportive treatment. Of the 359 patient...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracts from Viscum album L. (VAL), which are one of the most widely used alternative cancer therapies in Europe, have been recognised to induce apoptosis. A clinically relevant direct anti-tumour effect might be induced only by their intratumoural or intrapleural injection, and thus effectiveness is highly...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (CDDP) is the most active anticancer agent. It has been reported that intracellular accumulation of CDDP is an important step as a determinant for resistance to CDDP, which may be modulated by Na+, K(+)-ATPase activity. In this study, the significance of membrane Na+, K(+)-ATPase activ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:The suitability of Papanicolaou staining and of hematoxylin staining for DNA single-cell cytometry was investigated in comparison to Feulgen staining. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ten normal cervical smears and ten cervical smears containing cells of a squamous cell carcinoma in situ were analyzed. The integrated optical...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:The clinical efficiency of cisplatin (CDDP) against gastric cancer is often limited by the development of resistance. A third-generation platinum-containing agent, oxaliplatin (L-OHP), has been introduced for treating gastric cancer. Here, we studied oxaliplatin in vitro to reveal the mechanism of ac...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It has been shown recently that various myeloid leukemia cells can be induced by numerous compounds to differentiate terminally into non-growing mature cells. Furthermore, some of these compounds have been found to be clinically useful for the therapy of certain types of myeloid leukemia. To improve this new method of...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The development of multidrug resistance (MDR) causes difficulties in the chemotherapy of of human cancer. Investigation of the possibility of reversal of MDR has been greatly aided by the use of cell lines with acquired resitance to anticancer agents in vitro or transfected with the mdrl gene. The aim of this study wa...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Activating Gs a mutations have been identified in most instances of fibrous dysplasia (FD). This mutation leads to consistently elevated intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels, with various biological consequences. The development of secondary sarcoma in FD is a rare but well-established ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Melanoma is characterized by high resistance to chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to investigate combined effects of doxorubicin and parthenolide on melanoma cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thiazolyl blue tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and flow cytometry were used to evaluate viability. The p53 levels a...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present study was undertaken to evaluate the significance of grooved nuclei as an additional diagnostic criterion for primary breast carcinoma as well as their association with tumor grade in cytologic material obtained by fine needle aspiration (FNA). Cytologic slides of 105 cases of breast carcinoma (89 ductal, ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 67-year-old man presented with leg edema. Laboratory data showed elevated blood glucose and carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 levels, and anemia. Further imaging studies revealed a relatively clear-margined tumor totally occupying the main pancreatic duct (MPD) from the head to the tail of the pancreas (maximum diamete...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The expression of oestrogen and progesterone receptors in patients with adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix was examined in order to determine their influence on prognosis and to evaluate the association between the steroid receptor expression and various clinicopathologic parameters. PATIENTS AND METHODS:O...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To investigate the relationship between erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and postoperative survival of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Relationships between clinical characteristics and overall survival (OS) of patients with CRC were investigated using multivariate analysis. Receiv...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.21873/anticanres.13049
更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Since long, oxidative stress-driven modifications in breast cancer were faced as detrimental cellular events that cause obligatory cell damage. Recent studies show that the products generated during redox reactions are able to modulate pivotal processes regarding breast cancer survival, proposing a new way of looking ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and gene therapy protocols are separately under clinical evaluation for treatment of brain malignancies. Here, the potential of a novel combination technique, photo-induced delivery of macromolecules and genes to glioblastoma cells, is evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The photoche...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Seventy five patients suffering from metastatic breast cancer previously unexposed to chemotherapy were treated with Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (CMF) upon diagnosis of their first relapse. Dose Level I (85% or more of the planned dose) was given to 14 patients (19%); Dose Level II (66% to 84% of...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to assess the metallothionein (MT), maintenance protein 2 (Mcm-2) and Ki-67 expressions in adrenocortical adenomas and carcinomas in comparison to normal tissue and evaluate the correlations between these markers of proliferation and between these markers and tumor diameter. MATERI...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The recombinant plasmid pBHIV-1 carrying the long terminal repeat (LTR) of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1), linked to the reported chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) gene, was introduced into human and rat fibroblasts. Stable transfectants were obtained which were resistant to genetecin and expressed ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Recently hormone - dependent mammary carcinoma cell lines were shown to exhibit in vitro significantly lower protein kinase C (PKC) activities and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) as compared to hormone - independent cell lines. Measurements of EGF-R levels in primary human breast cancer biopsies were determin...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Human urothelial cell lines of non-malignant and malignant origin were classified into three grades of transformation, i.e. TGr I, TGr II, and TGr III, which differ from primary and early cultures of normal bladder mucosa (TGr 0) by growth in the absence of fibroblasts, prolonged survival, increasing chromosomal abnor...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A report that effects of butyrate on some cells may be mediated by activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) prompted this study which examines if other AMPK activators can induce differentiation and inhibit proliferation of colon cancer cells in a manner similar to butyrate. Using induction of alkaline phosph...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Several anti-cancer drugs are known to have proliferation-related effects on various cells, such as an activation of some transcription factors and an induction of some cytokines. We examined the effect of anti-cancer drugs on granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) induction in human peripheral bloo...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The requirements on sunscreens have essentially changed, since some years ago it was demonstrated that approximately 50% of free radicals, that are formed in the skin by solar radiation, originate from the visible and infrared regions of the solar spectrum. In addition, a critical radical concentration threshold could...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The neurogenic rat tumour BT4A was serially transplanted to the dorsum of the right hind leg of BD IX rats. The tumours were treated with water bath heating at 44.0 degrees C for one hour alone or combined with bleomycin or BCNU, both given intraperitoneally at a dose of 20 mg/kg. Bleomycin alone had no effect on tumo...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Small cell neuroendocrine cervical carcinoma (SCNCC) is a rare tumor that comprises 1-3% of cervical tumors. SCNCC exhibits clinical and biological characteristics of both cervical neoplasm (such as local aggressiveness and involvement of papillomavirus) and neuroendocrine small cell cancer of any site (such...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Apart from inactivation of the MEN1 gene, the molecular mechanisms involved in tumorigenesis of the endocrine organs and MEN1-associated non-endocrine lesions remain unknown. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In order to learn more about down-stream effects upon MEN1 gene inactivation BON1 cells were transfected with a...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The complication of metastasis from the primary tumor site to the distant organ is difficult to control. Tumor cells usually spread through the vascular system: lymphatics and/or blood; or by direct extension into adjacent sites. Transplantable prostate adenocarcinoma (PA-III) cells in L-W rats produces a tumor in the...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Menogaril is an antitumor agent active after oral administration, and unlike other anthracyclines, extravasation cannot occur. When the IC90 values of menogaril were plotted versus exposure time on a double-logarithmic scale, the regression lines had slopes between -0.64 and -0.80. These results showed that the mode o...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:Maximal cytoreduction to minimal residual tumor is the most important determinant of prognosis in patients with advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Preoperative prediction of suboptimal cytoreduction, defined as residual tumor >1 cm, could guide treatment decisions and improve counseling. The objective ...
journal_title：Anticancer research
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：
更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00
