Author Correction: The predictive and prognostic potential of plasma telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) RNA in rectal cancer patients.

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 321 gastric cancer patients was made to assess the prognostic value of TNM classification, tumour differentiation, Laurén classification, proliferative rate, inflammatory reaction and tumour invasion in vascular or neural structures of the gastric wall. The TNM classification showed the str...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Setälä LP,Kosma VM,Marin S,Lipponen PK,Eskelinen MJ,Syrjänen KJ,Alhava EM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increasing incidence of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is mainly related to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. As OPSCCs are often diagnosed at an advanced stage, mortality and morbidity remain high. There are no diagnostic biomarkers for early detection of OPSCC. METHODS:Serum from 25...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Tuhkuri A,Saraswat M,Mäkitie A,Mattila P,Silén R,Dickinson A,Carpén T,Tohmola T,Joenväärä S,Renkonen S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HMGI and HMGY are splicing variants of the HMGI(Y) gene and together with HMGI-C, belong to a family of DNA binding proteins involved in maintaining active chromatin conformation and in the regulation of gene transcription. The expression of the HMGI(Y) gene is maximal during embryonic development, declines in adult d...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Giannini G,Kim CJ,Di Marcotullio L,Manfioletti G,Cardinali B,Cerignoli F,Ristori E,Zani M,Frati L,Screpanti I,Guilino A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5-year relative survival rates of women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1992 and 1994 were compared among the 99 Health Authorities (1999 boundaries) of England. Substantial variation, with evidence of geographical clustering was observed. Part of this variation was explained by differences in deprivation bet...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Mullee MA,De Stavola B,Romanengo M,Coleman MP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In compiling official mortality statistics, rules for selecting the underlying cause of death have changed twice in the last 20 years in England. Mortality statistics for most types of cancer were not greatly affected, but there were significant effects on coding for cancers of colon, liver, breast, prostate, testis a...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Goldacre MJ,Duncan ME,Cook-Mozaffari P,Griffith M

更新日期：2004-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Data collected from lung cancer patients attending the Victoria Clinic of the British Columbia Cancer Agency are used to investigate how resources are rationed in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). An ordered logit model is estimated to analyse empirically the relationship between treatment selection...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Arndt K,Coy P,Schaafsma J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HER2/neu-derived peptides inducing MHC class II-restricted CD4+ T helper lymphocyte (Th) responses, although critical for tumour rejection, are not thoroughly characterized. Here, we report the generation and characterization of CD4+ T cell clones specifically recognizing a HER-2/neu-derived peptide (776-788) [designa...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Sotiriadou R,Perez SA,Gritzapis AD,Sotiropoulou PA,Echner H,Heinzel S,Mamalaki A,Pawelec G,Voelter W,Baxevanis CN,Papamichail M

更新日期：2001-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofilaments (NFs) are specific intermediate filaments to neural cells. Mammalian NFs are protein triplets composed of three major subunits with respective molecular weights of approximately 70, 150 and 200 kD. Using an immunohistochemical method, 13 carcinoid tumours from different sites were examined for the prese...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Astarloa R,Sánchez-Franco F,Cacicedo L,García-Villanueva M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 182 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients were assayed for antibodies to p53 using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, and antibodies were detected in 48 (26%) compared with 1 out of 76 (1.3%) normal control volunteers (P = 0.0001). In breast cancer patients, autoantibodies were found in al...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Mudenda B,Green JA,Green B,Jenkins JR,Robertson L,Tarunina M,Leinster SJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We performed a retrospective nationwide study to explore age as a prognostic factor in synovial sarcoma patients. METHODS:Data on 613 synovial sarcoma patients were obtained from the Netherlands Cancer Registry. The prognostic relevance of age groups (children, adolescent and young adults (AYAs), adults, an...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Vlenterie M,Ho VK,Kaal SE,Vlenterie R,Haas R,van der Graaf WT

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current standards for assessment of tumour response to therapy (a) categorise therapeutic efficacy values, inappropriate for patient-specific and deterministic studies, (b) neglect the natural growth characteristics of tumours, (c) are based on tumour shrinkage, inappropriate for cytostatic therapies, and (d...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Mehrara E,Forssell-Aronsson E,Bernhardt P

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sindbis virus (SIN) infection causes no or only mild symptoms (fever, rash, and arthralgia) in humans. However, SIN has a strong cytopathic effect (CPE) on various cancer cells. This study focuses on the oncolytic activity of SIN AR399 on oral cancer cells compared with reovirus, a well-known oncolytic virus...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Saito K,Uzawa K,Kasamatsu A,Shinozuka K,Sakuma K,Yamatoji M,Shiiba M,Shino Y,Shirasawa H,Tanzawa H

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The important role of the p53 gene in tumour progression and cellular response to DNA damage has prompted investigation of the clinical significance of alterations to this gene. We examined both p53 overexpression and mutation of the gene in endometrial carcinoma in order to evaluate the prognostic significance of the...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Soong R,Knowles S,Williams KE,Hammond IG,Wysocki SJ,Iacopetta BJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 194 patients with thyroid carcinoma treated with (131)I, representing all cases thus treated in Denmark from 1948 to 1972, were reviewed. Two cases of myeloid leukaemia were found compared with 0·097 expected cases of non-lymphocytic leukaemia (0·05 > P > 0·01). In 5 series of (131)I treated thyroid car...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Brincker H,Hansen HS,Andersen AP

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complete tumour response (pCR) to neo-adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy for rectal cancer is associated with a reduction in local recurrence and improved disease-free and overall survival, but is achieved in only 20-30% of patients. Drug repurposing for anti-cancer treatments is gaining momentum, but the potential...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Gash KJ,Chambers AC,Cotton DE,Williams AC,Thomas MG

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome 17 alterations are found in more cancers than those of any other chromosome, and frequently involve the p53 gene on 17p13. The aim of this study was to identify the correlations between the presence of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and microsatellite instability (MI) on chromosome 17p13 in patients with cerv...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Harima Y,Shirahama S,Harima K,Aoki S,Ohnishi T,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour recurrence and metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after hepatectomy are the major obstacles of long-term survival. The present study investigated the clinicopathological significance of a possible metastasis regulator Six1 in HCC patients who were undergone hepatectomy. Seventy-two pairs of RNA and 10...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Ng KT,Man K,Sun CK,Lee TK,Poon RT,Lo CM,Fan ST

更新日期：2006-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum protein induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist II (PIVKAII), hepatoma-specific band of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGTII), and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were determined in 120 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 90 patients with cirrhosis. The mean serum concentration of PIVKAII in HC...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Cui R,He J,Zhang F,Wang B,Ding H,Shen H,Li Y,Chen X

更新日期：2003-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of metronomic irinotecan have not been studied in cancer patients. The aim of the study is to investigate the PK/PD profile of irinotecan/SN-38 administered by metronomic schedule. Twenty chemotherapy-refractory or chemotherapy-resistant patients with metastatic colo...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Allegrini G,Falcone A,Fioravanti A,Barletta MT,Orlandi P,Loupakis F,Cerri E,Masi G,Di Paolo A,Kerbel RS,Danesi R,Del Tacca M,Bocci G

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Killing of autologous melanoma (auto-Me) was obtained with pooled allostimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) in 34/42 cases and found not to be due to a cross-reactivity between melanoma and allogeneic normal antigens. To see whether generation of tumour cytotoxic PBL by allostimulation was due to release of IL...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Balsari A,Fossati G,Taramelli D,Tona G,Delia D,Giardini R,Parmiani G

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between gall bladder removal (cholecystectomy) and hepatocellular carcinoma warrants investigation. An increased intrahepatic bile duct pressure following cholecystectomy might cause chronic inflammation in the surrounding liver tissue, which might induce cancer development. METHODS:A nation...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Lagergren J,Mattsson F,El-Serag H,Nordenstedt H

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) system is one of the best-investigated protease systems, both under physiological and pathological conditions, including various types of cancer. However, effects of co-expression of members of the uPA system in soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) patients at the protein level...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Taubert H,Würl P,Greither T,Kappler M,Bache M,Lautenschläger C,Füssel S,Meye A,Eckert AW,Holzhausen HJ,Magdolen V,Kotzsch M

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is used to detect clinically significant tumour cells in blood or bone marrow. This may result in a redefinition of disease-free and clinical relapse. However, its clinical utility may be limited by lack of automation or reproducibility. Recent stu...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Burchill SA,Perebolte L,Johnston C,Top B,Selby P

更新日期：2002-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreaticoduodenectomy remains a major undertaking. A preoperative blood test, which could confidently predict the benefits of surgery would improve the selection of pancreatic cancer patients for surgery. This study aimed to identify protein biomarkers prognostic for long-term survival and to validate them...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Xue A,Chang JW,Chung L,Samra J,Hugh T,Gill A,Butturini G,Baxter RC,Smith RC

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) leads to porphyrin accumulation in malignant and premalignant tissues, and ALA is used as a prodrug in photodynamic therapy (PDT). To understand the mechanism of porphyrin accumulation after the administration of ALA and to investigate whether ALA-induced protoporphyrin I...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Hinnen P,de Rooij FW,van Velthuysen ML,Edixhoven A,van Hillegersberg R,Tilanus HW,Wilson JH,Siersema PD

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy was used to examine changes in the concentration of paramagnetic metal ions in Yoshida tumours carried by female Wistar rats. Blood, spleen and lymph nodes from these animals were also examined by ESR. A decrease in the concentration of a paramagnetic species associated with ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Dodd NJ,Silcock JM

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is a major chemotactic and mitogenic factor for connective tissue cells. The amino acid sequence shares an overall 28-38% identity to IGFBPs and contains critical conserved sequences in the amino terminus. It has been demonstrated that human CTGF specifically binds IGFs with low ...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Vorwerk P,Wex H,Hohmann B,Oh Y,Rosenfeld RG,Mittler U

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is highly resistant to chemotherapy because of a high apoptotic threshold. Recent evidences suggest that GSK-3beta positively regulates human pancreatic cancer and leukaemia cell survival in part through regulation of nuclear factor (NF-kappaB)-mediated expression of anti-apoptotic...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Bilim V,Ougolkov A,Yuuki K,Naito S,Kawazoe H,Muto A,Oya M,Billadeau D,Motoyama T,Tomita Y

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 152 non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) were studied retrospectively to determine the relationship between epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) status and the histological type, tumour size, nodal status and prognosis. EGF-R status was assessed on routinely embedded paraffin sections with an antibody to...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Dazzi H,Hasleton PS,Thatcher N,Barnes DM,Wilkes S,Swindell R,Lawson RA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The addition of breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to screening mammography for women with BRCA mutations significantly increases sensitivity, but there is little data on clinical outcomes. We report screening performance, cancer stage, distant recurrence rate, and breast cancer-specific mortality in ou...

journal_title：British journal of cancer

authors： Passaperuma K,Warner E,Causer PA,Hill KA,Messner S,Wong JW,Jong RA,Wright FC,Yaffe MJ,Ramsay EA,Balasingham S,Verity L,Eisen A,Curpen B,Shumak R,Plewes DB,Narod SA

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00