Fas/Fas ligand regulation mediates cell death in human Ewing's sarcoma cells treated with melatonin.

abstract：:The RNASEL gene on chromosome 1q25 has been identified as a prostate cancer susceptibility gene. We screened for RNASEL germline mutations in familial prostate cancer patients, and performed a case-control study to examine the association of specific variants with prostate cancer risk in the Japanese. Three variants w...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Nakazato H,Suzuki K,Matsui H,Ohtake N,Nakata S,Yamanaka H

更新日期：2003-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration cytology, which is well established to be accurate for the diagnosis of thyroid cancer, may be inconclusive for the follicular thyroid neoplasms. As galectin-3 was suggested to be a marker of malignant thyrocytes, we investigated whether this protein might be helpful in the diagnosis of aspirate...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Collet JF,Hurbain I,Prengel C,Utzmann O,Scetbon F,Bernaudin JF,Fajac A

更新日期：2005-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical formulation of the anti-tumour agent Taxol involves the use of a mixture of ethanol and Cremophor EL. Gel electrophoresis and density-gradient ultracentrifugation were used to detect effects of Taxol infusions on serum lipoproteins. Use of the Cremophor vehicle results in a decrease in the electrophoretic...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Sykes E,Woodburn K,Decker D,Kessel D

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumours are responsive to temozolomide (TMZ) if they are deficient in O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), and mismatch repair (MMR) proficient. METHODS:The effect of TMZ on medulloblastoma (MB) cell killing was analysed with clonogenic survival assays. Expression of DNA repair genes and enzymes...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： von Bueren AO,Bacolod MD,Hagel C,Heinimann K,Fedier A,Kordes U,Pietsch T,Koster J,Grotzer MA,Friedman HS,Marra G,Kool M,Rutkowski S

更新日期：2012-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs, which produce the stroma of pancreatic cancer (PC)) interact with cancer cells to facilitate PC growth. A candidate growth factor pathway that may mediate this interaction is the HGF-c-MET pathway. METHODS:Effects of HGF inhibition (using a neutralising antibody AMG102) alon...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Pothula SP,Xu Z,Goldstein D,Biankin AV,Pirola RC,Wilson JS,Apte MV

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of external beam radiotherapy for the treatment of malignant brain tumours is compromised by the need to avoid excessive radiation damage to normal CNS tissues. This review describes the current status of targeted radiotherapy, an alternative strategy for brain tumour treatment that offers the exciting pro...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Zalutsky MR

更新日期：2004-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that tamoxifen may improve the efficacy of medical castration with luteinising hormone-releasing hormone analogues, but very few data have so far been published concerning the clinical and endocrinological activity of this therapeutic modality. In this phase II multicentre trial conducted by the ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Buzzoni R,Biganzoli L,Bajetta E,Celio L,Fornasiero A,Mariani L,Zilembo N,Di Bartolomeo M,Di Leo A,Arcangeli G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though the majority of patients with bladder malignancies initially present with low stage disease, the clinical epidemiology of these so-called superficial bladder tumours is not well known. In this paper, disease characteristics at initial presentation and during follow-up are described in 1,745 primary cases d...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Kiemeney LA,Witjes JA,Verbeek AL,Heijbroek RP,Debruyne FM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of monoclonal antibodies was constructed by immunising mice with peptide fragments of the c-myc oncogene product. One such antibody, Myc 1-6E10 was shown to bind to a 62,000 dalton protein identifiable with the c-myc product (p62c-myc). The antigen recognised was not destroyed by paraffin wax embedding. Myc 1-6E...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Sikora K,Evan G,Stewart J,Watson JV

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody recognizing the blood group H type 2 antigen has been obtained from a BALB/c mouse immunized with MCF-7 (human mammary carcinoma) cells. The specificity of this antibody (A46-B/B10, IgM, kappa) has been identified by haemagglutination tests, immunohistochemistry, binding inhibition studies, and a...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Karsten U,Pilgrim G,Hanisch FG,Uhlenbruck G,Kasper M,Stosiek P,Papsdorf G,Pasternak G

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Glutamine is a requirement for many cells in tissue culture, an intermediate in many metabolic pathways, and an alternative substrate to glucose for energy metabolism. These properties suggest that glutamine concentration might be a determinant of cell viability in tumours, especially in regions that are deficient i...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Tannock IF,Steele D,Roberts J

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A risk model for febrile neutropenia (FN) after conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy, based on early (day 5) lymphopenia and the dose of chemotherapy, has been described. A risk index based on parameters available at day 1 would be easier in daily practice. The objectives of this work were (1) to investigate a risk mod...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Ray-Coquard I,Borg C,Bachelot T,Sebban C,Philip I,Clapisson G,Le Cesne A,Biron P,Chauvin F,Blay JY,ELYPSE study group.

更新日期：2003-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a common malignancy with a good prognosis in the majority of cases. However, some BCC patients develop a more advanced disease that poses significant management challenges. Such cases include locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic BCC, or tumours that occur in anatomical sites where su...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Lear JT,Corner C,Dziewulski P,Fife K,Ross GL,Varma S,Harwood CA

更新日期：2014-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Favourable outcomes of breast cancer screening trials in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in the launch of population-based service screening programmes in many Western countries. We investigated whether improvements in mammography and treatment modalities have had an influence on the effectiveness of breast can...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： van Schoor G,Moss SM,Otten JD,Donders R,Paap E,den Heeten GJ,Holland R,Broeders MJ,Verbeek AL

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:1-5% of cancer patients treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy die within a month after the administration of chemotherapy. Risk factors for these early deaths (ED) are not well known. The purpose of this study was to establish a risk model for ED after chemotherapy applicable to all tumour types. The model was delineate...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Ray-Coquard I,Ghesquière H,Bachelot T,Borg C,Biron P,Sebban C,LeCesne A,Chauvin F,Blay JY,ELYPSE Study Group.

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Determining the rate of breast cancer (BC) growth in vivo, which can predict prognosis, has remained elusive despite its relevance for treatment, screening recommendations and medicolegal practice. We developed a model that predicts the rate of in vivo tumour growth using a unique study cohort of BC patients...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Bhattarai S,Klimov S,Aleskandarany MA,Burrell H,Wormall A,Green AR,Rida P,Ellis IO,Osan RM,Rakha EA,Aneja R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated breast cancer incidence in migrants in the Netherlands in 1988-1998. The standardised incidence ratio for breast cancer in Northwest-Netherlands was statistically significantly reduced for women born in Surinam (0.56), Turkey (0.29) and Morocco (0.22). The proportion of women with advanced stages (III ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Visser O,van der Kooy K,van Peppen AM,Ory FG,van Leeuwen FE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the primary cause of cancer mortality in developed countries. First diagnosis only when disease has already reached the metastatic phase is the main reason for failure in treatment. To this regard, although low-dose spiral computed tomography (CT) has proven to be effective in the early detection of lun...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Pastorino U

更新日期：2010-06-08 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

authors： Brownhill SC,Taylor C,Burchill SA

更新日期：2007-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulins (Ig) and some complement components (C) were quantified in sera from patients with gastric carcinoma before surgery and at regular intervals during a 5-year follow-up. The preoperative concentrations of C1-INH and C4 were higher (P < 0.0005 and P < 0.005) and IgG lower (P < 0.0005) in 50 patients with ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Janssen CW Jr,Lie RT,Bassøe CF,Maartmann-Moe H,Matre R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two techniques for growing colonies of human tumour cells in soft agar have been applied to cell suspensions derived from fresh tumour tissue from 48 patients. Colonies were obtained in 31 cases, with plating efficiencies between 0.01 and 15%. In 11 cases the plating efficiencies were 1% or above. There was evidence t...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Courtenay VD,Selby PJ,Smith IE,Mills J,Peckham MJ

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and ninety women participated in the quality of life (QL) study of ACCOG1, a high-dose vs conventional adjuvant chemotherapy breast cancer trial, for patients with a high risk of relapse. Patients completed the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30, questions on menopausal sy...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Malinovszky KM,Gould A,Foster E,Cameron D,Humphreys A,Crown J,Leonard RC,Anglo Celtic Co-operative Oncology Group.

更新日期：2006-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:LIM and SH3 protein 1 (LASP-1) is a nucleo-cytoplasmatic signalling protein involved in cell proliferation and migration and is upregulated in breast cancer in vitro studies have shown that LASP-1 might be regulated by prostate-derived ETS factor (PDEF), p53 and/or LASP1 gene amplification. This current stud...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Frietsch JJ,Grunewald TG,Jasper S,Kammerer U,Herterich S,Kapp M,Honig A,Butt E

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Raltitrexed, a thymidylate synthase inhibitor, was given to 21 patients with advanced small-cell lung cancer, at a dose of 3 mg m(-2) as a 15-min intravenous infusion at 21-day intervals. All of the patients had extensive disease and 17 had received prior therapy. Patients with disease refractory to primary chemothera...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Woll PJ,Basser R,Le Chevalier T,Drings P,Perez Manga G,Adenis A,Seymour L,Smith F,Thatcher N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that doxorubicin entrapped in cardiolipin liposomes retain antitumour efficacy in mice but had diminished cardiac uptake and cardiotoxicity. Such liposomes are preferentially taken up by spleen. In a previous study we showed that a single dose of liposomal doxorubicin is not more toxic than free doxorubi...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Rahman A,Joher A,Neefe JR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of endometrial thickness with the risk of developing endometrial cancer (EC) within 2 years was investigated in a consecutive cohort of 1205 breast cancer patients under tamoxifen treatment, undergoing transvaginal ultrasonography (TVUS) for follow-up purpose (asymptomatic, 1068) or for abnormal uterin...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Ciatto S,Cecchini S,Gervasi G,Landini A,Zappa M,Crocetti E

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination chemotherapy with cytosine arabinoside, cyclophosphamide and L-asparaginase (Asnase) was given to 22 children with acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL) with a white-cell count greater than 30 X 10(9)/1, and other features suggestive of poor prognosis. Complete remission was induced in all patients--in 19 afte...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Ekert H,Waters KD,Smith PJ,Matthews RN,Ellis WM

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) is thought to cause some vulval squamous cell carcinomas (VSCC) by degrading p53 product. Evidence on whether HPV-negative VSCC results from p53 mutation is conflicting. We performed immunohistochemistry for p53 product on 52 cases of lone vulval intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN), 21 cases of ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Rosenthal AN,Hopster D,Ryan A,Jacobs IJ

更新日期：2003-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is an important therapeutic target in oncology, and three different types of EGFR inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of cancer patients. However, there has been no clear association between the expression levels of EGFR protein in the tumours det...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Modjtahedi H,Khelwatty SA,Kirk RS,Seddon AM,Essapen S,Del Vecchio CA,Wong AJ,Eccles S

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriochlorin a (BCA) is a second-generation photosensitizer that is effective in tumour destruction upon illumination with light of a wavelength of 760 nm. Tissue penetration by light at this wavelength is greater compared with wavelengths at which commonly used photosensitizers are illuminated, making it possible ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Rovers JP,Schuitmaker JJ,Vahrmeijer AL,van Dierendonck JH,Terpstra OT

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00