Abstract:
:The effect of the synthetic progesterone, megestrol acetate, on weight loss induced by both tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF) as a model for the cachexia accompanying the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and by a cachexia-inducing tumour (MAC16) has been studied in NMRI mice. Megestrol acetate was effective in preventing weight loss in both model systems with treated animals having an increase in intake of both food and water. Megestrol acetate was unable to prevent loss of body weight in animals pair-fed with TNF treated animals, suggesting that the increase in food and water intake was responsible for the increase in body weight. Analysis of body composition showed that the major contribution to the increase in body weight in animals treated with megestrol acetate was an increase in water content, although there was also an increase in carcass fat in animals bearing the MAC16 tumour given the high dose of megestrol acetate. Animals bearing the MAC16 tumour had a significant increase in tumour weight after treatment with megestrol acetate, possibly owing to the increased plasma glucose levels. These results suggest that an increase in appetite and weight gain alone are not sufficient to justify the anticachectic effect of a particular agent and that body composition analysis and tumour growth rate are very important parameters.
journal_name
Br J Cancerjournal_title
British journal of cancerauthors
Beck SA,Tisdale MJdoi
10.1038/bjc.1990.310subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-09-01 00:00:00pages
420-4issue
3eissn
0007-0920issn
1532-1827journal_volume
62pub_type
杂志文章abstract::In an Italian case-control study of oral cancer, number of missing teeth and other aspects of dental care were similar, but the general condition of the mouth, as indicated by gum bleeding, tartar deposits and mucosal irritation, was worse among oral cancer cases than controls. No differences were detected in sexual p...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2000.1398
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) regulate colon cancer growth and metastasis. Previous studies utilizing antibodies against the VEGF receptor (DC101) or EGF receptor (C225) have demonstrated independently that these agents can inhibit tumour growth and induce apoptosis in col...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2001.1936
更新日期:2001-08-17 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Metabolomics has shown promise in gastric cancer (GC) detection. This research sought to identify whether GC has a unique urinary metabolomic profile compared with benign gastric disease (BN) and healthy (HE) patients. METHODS:Urine from 43 GC, 40 BN, and 40 matched HE patients was analysed using (1)H nucle...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2015.414
更新日期:2016-01-12 00:00:00
abstract::Lymphoma of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) type usually arises in MALT acquired through chronic antigenic stimulation triggered by persistent infection and/or autoimmune processes. Due to specific ligand-receptor interactions between lymphoid cells and high-endothelial venules of MALT, both normal and ne...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2000.1308
更新日期:2000-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although epithelial cell adhesion/activating molecule (EpCAM/CD326) is one of the first tumour-associated antigens identified, it has never received the same level of attention as other target proteins for therapy of cancer. It is also striking that ever since its discovery in the late 1970s the actual contribution of...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603494
更新日期:2007-02-12 00:00:00
abstract::Previous studies have shown that multidrug resistance (MDR) in the doxorubicin-selected lung tumour cell lines COR-L23/R, GLC4/ADR and MOR/R is associated with overexpression of the MRP gene. In this study we report that resistance to daunorubicin, vincristine and rhodamine 123 can be partially reversed in these cell ...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1995.281
更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Glioma stem-like cell (GSC) properties are responsible for gliomagenesis and recurrence. GSCs are invasive but its mechanism remains to be elucidated. Here, we attempted to identify the molecules that promote invasion in GSCs. METHODS:Neurospheres and CD133⁺ cells were collected from glioblastoma (GBM) spec...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2013.218
更新日期:2013-06-25 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Cancer survival statistics are typically reported by using measures discounting the impact of other-cause mortality, such as net survival. This is a hypothetical measure and is interpreted as excluding the possibility of cancer patients dying from other causes. Crude probability of death partitions the all-c...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41416-019-0597-0
更新日期:2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) frequently complicates cancer. Data on tumour-specific VTE predictors are limited, but may inform strategies to prevent thrombosis. METHODS:We computed incidence rates (IRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for VTE hospitalisation in a cohort of cancer patients (n=57,591) and...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6605883
更新日期:2010-09-28 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:HOX transcript antisense RNA (HOTAIR), which is expressed from the homebox C gene (HOXC) locus, is capable of reprogramming chromatin organisation and promoting cancer cell metastasis and can simultaneously bind the polycomb repressive complex 2, which enhances H3K27 trimethylation, and the LSD1-CoREST-REST ...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2013.548
更新日期:2013-10-15 00:00:00
abstract::Many cancers express Fas ligand (FasL/CD95L) in vivo, and can kill lymphoid cells by Fas-mediated apoptosis in vitro. However, overexpression of recombinant FasL in murine tumour allografts revealed a potential antitumour effect of FasL, via recruitment of neutrophils. Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) coul...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6601240
更新日期:2003-10-06 00:00:00
abstract::Male inbred Fischer rats were fed phenobarbitone-Na at a level of 500 parts/10(6) in the diet for 1 week, followed by 1000 parts 10(6) for 103 weeks at which time the survivors were killed. Thirty-three treated rats survived to 80 weeks. Before 80 weeks, no animals showed hyperplastic lesions. Of the 33 rats surviving...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1978.62
更新日期:1978-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although osteosclerotic bone metastases are characteristic of prostate cancer, mixed metastases with a lytic component are not uncommon. Type I collagen is synthesised by osteoblasts and accounts for about 90% of the organic matrix of bone. We have used new specific immunoassays for PICP (carboxy-terminal propeptide o...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1995.204
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is recognized to play a predominant role in breast cancer prognosis. The action of VEGF is mediated by two high-affinity receptors with ligand-stimulated tyrosine kinase activity: VEGFR-1/flt-1 and VEGFR-2/flk-1, which are expressed mainly in vascular endothelial cells. To the...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6692206
更新日期:1999-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Lynch syndrome (LS) is associated with a significant lifetime risk of endometrial cancer (EC). There are limited data on factors modifying the EC risk in LS patients. METHODS:The study cohort included 136 LS mutation-positive women. Exposure data were collected by postal questionnaires. Cox regression model...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2016.193
更新日期:2016-07-26 00:00:00
abstract::HuR, a ubiquitously expressed member of the Hu protein family that binds and stabilizes an AU-rich element (ARE)-containing mRNAs, is known to shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm via several export pathways. When normal cells were treated with heat shock, HuR was exported to the cytoplasm in a chromosome mai...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6605084
更新日期:2009-06-16 00:00:00
abstract::Clonogenic survival of HeLa, Chinese hamster and HaK cells after treatment with a range of cisplatin concentrations and exposure times was determined and cellular platinum concentrations were measured by PIXE. It was demonstrated that cisplatin cytotoxicity of the three cell lines varied considerably as a function of ...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1986.168
更新日期:1986-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::High levels of loss of distal markers on 17p13.3 in breast cancer suggested the presence within the region of at least one tumour-suppressor gene. Here we describe the derivation of two biallelic polymorphisms from the 17p telomeric yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) TYAC98. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragme...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1996.449
更新日期:1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We used the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database with 2060 childhood brain tumours diagnosed in the period 1958-1996 to analyse the risk of this tumour by parental cancers and in siblings of childhood brain tumour probands. Groups of patients were compared by calculating standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for b...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2000.1252
更新日期:2000-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Temozolomide, an oral cytotoxic agent with approximately 100% bioavailability after one administration, has demonstrated schedule-dependent clinical activity against highly resistant cancers. Thirty patients with minimal prior chemotherapy were enrolled in this phase I trial to characterize the drug's safety, pharmaco...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6690802
更新日期:1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Risk factors for the development of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) include age, exposure to ionising radiation, and cytotoxic drug treatment. Recently, asthma also has been suggested as a risk factor for MDS. METHODS:We undertook this nationwide population-based cohort study on patients with a first-time h...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2016.389
更新日期:2017-01-03 00:00:00
abstract::One hundred and one consecutive patients with newly diagnosed stage I Hodgkin's disease (HD) received treatment at St Bartholomew's Hospital, between 1968 and 1987, with a median follow-up of 12 years. Eleven patients have been excluded from detailed analysis because they either received involved field radiotherapy (R...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1990.285
更新日期:1990-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Chromosome 9p21 gene copy number in Ewing's sarcoma family of tumour (ESFT) cell lines and primary ESFT has been evaluated using Multiplex Ligation-dependent probe amplification, and the clinical significance of CDKN2A loss and p16/p14(ARF) expression investigated. Homozygous deletion of CDKN2A was identified in 4/9 (...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603819
更新日期:2007-06-18 00:00:00
abstract::Many kallikrein genes were found to be differentially expressed in various malignancies, and prostate specific antigen (encoded by the KLK3 gene) is the best tumour marker for prostate cancer. Prostate specific antigen has recently been shown to be an independent favourable prognostic marker for breast cancer. KLK15 i...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600590
更新日期:2002-11-18 00:00:00
abstract::Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) prognosis is strictly related to well-established clinicopathological parameters which have unfortunately become insufficient in the prognostic evaluation of this type of cancer. As p53 and bcl-2 gene deregulations are frequently involved in several types of epithelial malignancies, ...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1995.193
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) now represents 20-25% of all 'breast cancers' consequent upon detection by population-based breast cancer screening programmes. Currently, all DCIS lesions are treated, and treatment comprises either mastectomy or breast-conserving surgery supplemented with radiotherapy. However, most D...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1038/s41416-019-0478-6
更新日期:2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study evaluates the overall survival and disease free survival of melanoma patients that were treated with an autologous melanoma cell vaccine, administered as a post-operative adjuvant. Included are 43 patients with totally resected metastatic melanoma (28-AJCC stage III, 15-AJCC stage IV), with a median follow ...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6600251
更新日期:2002-05-20 00:00:00
abstract::The mechanism of down-regulation of c-myc RNA associated with androgen-induced suppression of the transformed phenotype in the human prostate carcinoma cell line LNCaP was investigated. The synthetic androgen mibolerone (7 alpha-17 alpha-Dimethyl-19-nortestosterone) reversibly inhibits the proliferation of LNCaP cells...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1992.76
更新日期:1992-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clear cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses (malignant melanoma of soft parts) and conventional malignant melanoma may demonstrate significant morphologic overlap at the light microscopic and ultrastructural level. Consequently, the clinically relevant distinction between primary clear cell sarcoma and metastatic me...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2000.1628
更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) and juvenile polyposis (JPS) are both characterized by the presence of hamartomatous polyps and increased risk of malignancy in the gastrointestinal tract. Mutations of the LKB1 and SMAD4 genes have been shown recently to cause a number of PJS and JPS cases respectively, but there remains ...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2001.1800
更新日期:2001-05-18 00:00:00