abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown in several studies that survival in cancer patients who were operated on by a high-volume surgeon was better. Why then do all patients not benefit from treatment by these experienced surgeons? The aim of our work was to study the hypothesis that in breast cancer, geographical isolation and ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Gentil J,Dabakuyo TS,Ouedraogo S,Poillot ML,Dejardin O,Arveux P

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-coding RNAs (~22 nt) that play important roles in the pathogenesis of human diseases by negatively regulating gene expression. Although miR-196a has been implicated in several other cancers, its role in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is unknown. The aim of the present st...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Liu XH,Lu KH,Wang KM,Sun M,Zhang EB,Yang JS,Yin DD,Liu ZL,Zhou J,Liu ZJ,De W,Wang ZX

更新日期：2012-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of occupation in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is unclear. Here, we investigated associations between employment in specific occupations and industries and RCC, and its most common histologic subtype, clear cell RCC (ccRCC). METHODS:Between 2002 and 2007, a population-based case-contro...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Karami S,Colt JS,Schwartz K,Davis FG,Ruterbusch JJ,Munuo SS,Wacholder S,Stewart PA,Graubard BI,Rothman N,Chow WH,Purdue MP

更新日期：2012-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:C-reactive protein (CRP) is considered a useful serum marker for patients with RCC. However, its clinical utility in advanced metastatic renal cell carcinoma (AM-RCC), particularly in deciding whether to perform nephrectomy at the onset, is not well studied. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Ito H,Shioi K,Murakami T,Takizawa A,Sano F,Kawahara T,Mizuno N,Makiyama K,Nakaigawa N,Kishida T,Miura T,Kubota Y,Yao M

更新日期：2012-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The metastasis-promoting protein S100A4 induces expression of ephrin-A1 and osteopontin in osteosarcoma cell lines. The aim of this study was to investigate S100A4-mediated stimulation of ephrin-A1 and osteopontin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines, and to characterize the expression of these b...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Rud AK,Lund-Iversen M,Berge G,Brustugun OT,Solberg SK,Mælandsmo GM,Boye K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bevacizumab, a humanized antibody to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), shows clinical activity against human cancer, with its addition to standard chemotherapy having been found to improve outcome in patients with advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, there have been no e...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Takeda M,Okamoto I,Yamanaka T,Nakagawa K,Nakanishi Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate efficacy in patients with brain metastasis (BM) on entry into the lapatinib expanded access program (LEAP). METHODS:LEAP is a worldwide, single-arm, open-label study. HER2-positive, locally-advanced or metastatic breast cancer patients with progression after an anthracycline, taxane, and trastuz...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Ro J,Park S,Kim S,Kim TY,Im YH,Rha SY,Chung JS,Moon H,Santillana S

更新日期：2012-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soft tissue metastases, in particular intraneural metastasis, from any carcinomas seldom occur. To our knowledge, no case of sciatic nerve palsy due to intraneural metastasis of gastric carcinoma is reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION:A case is reported of a 82-year old woman with sciatic nerve pa...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Ichikawa J,Matsumoto S,Shimoji T,Tanizawa T,Gokita T,Hayakawa K,Aoki K,Ina S,Kanda H

更新日期：2012-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) are alternatively activated macrophages that enhance tumor progression by promoting tumor cell invasion, migration and angiogenesis. TAMs have an anti-inflammatory function resembling M2 macrophages. CD163 is regarded as a highly specific monocyte/macrophage marker for M2 ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Medrek C,Pontén F,Jirström K,Leandersson K

更新日期：2012-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) accounts for more than 80% of the cases of renal cell carcinoma. In ccRCC deactivation of Von-Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene contributes to the constitutive expression of hypoxia inducible factors 1 and 2 alpha (HIF-α), transcriptional regulators of several genes involved in...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Chintala S,Najrana T,Toth K,Cao S,Durrani FA,Pili R,Rustum YM

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroblastoma are pediatric tumors of the sympathetic nervous system with a poor prognosis. Apoptosis is often deregulated in cancer cells, but only a few defects in apoptotic routes have been identified in neuroblastoma. METHODS:Here we investigated genomic aberrations affecting genes of the intrinsic apop...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Lamers F,Schild L,Koster J,Speleman F,Øra I,Westerhout EM,van Sluis P,Versteeg R,Caron HN,Molenaar JJ

更新日期：2012-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A candidate oncogene GIG47, previously known as a neudesin with a neurotrophic activity, was identified by applying the differential expression analysis method. METHODS:As a first step to understand the molecular role of GIG47, we analyzed the expression profile of GIG47 in multiple human cancers including ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Han KH,Lee SH,Ha SA,Kim HK,Lee C,Kim DH,Gong KH,Yoo J,Kim S,Kim JW

更新日期：2012-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with cancer of unknown primary account for 10% of patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC). This retrospective study was performed to identify prognostic factors for functional outcome, local control of MSCC, and survival in 175 of such patients treated with radiotherapy alone. METHO...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Douglas S,Huttenlocher S,Bajrovic A,Rudat V,Schild SE,Rades D

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colon cancer patients with the same stage show diverse clinical behavior due to tumor heterogeneity. We aimed to discover distinct classes of tumors based on microarray expression patterns, to analyze whether the molecular classification correlated with the histopathological stages or other clinical paramete...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Perez-Villamil B,Romera-Lopez A,Hernandez-Prieto S,Lopez-Campos G,Calles A,Lopez-Asenjo JA,Sanz-Ortega J,Fernandez-Perez C,Sastre J,Alfonso R,Caldes T,Martin-Sanchez F,Diaz-Rubio E

更新日期：2012-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are well recognized as gene regulators and have been implicated in the regulation of development as well as human diseases. miR-143 is located at a fragile site on chromosome 5 frequently deleted in cancer, and has been reported to be down-regulated in several cancers including colon cance...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Gregersen LH,Jacobsen A,Frankel LB,Wen J,Krogh A,Lund AH

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Li-Fraumeni (LFS) and Li-Fraumeni-like (LFL) syndromes are associated to germline TP53 mutations, and are characterized by the development of central nervous system tumors, sarcomas, adrenocortical carcinomas, and other early-onset tumors. Due to the high frequency of breast cancer in LFS/LFL families, these...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Silva AG,Ewald IP,Sapienza M,Pinheiro M,Peixoto A,de Nóbrega AF,Carraro DM,Teixeira MR,Ashton-Prolla P,Achatz MI,Rosenberg C,Krepischi AC

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are currently approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). The cardiotoxic effects of sorafenib and sunitinib may cause hypertension, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) dysfunction and/or congestive heart failure (CHF), and arterial thrombo-em...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Pantaleo MA,Mandrioli A,Saponara M,Nannini M,Erente G,Lolli C,Biasco G

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amplification of the 8p11-12 region has been found in approximately 15% of human breast cancer and is associated with poor prognosis. Previous genomic analysis has led us to identify the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lipid raft-associated 2 (ERLIN2) gene as one of the candidate oncogenes within the 8p11-12 ampl...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Wang G,Liu G,Wang X,Sethi S,Ali-Fehmi R,Abrams J,Zheng Z,Zhang K,Ethier S,Yang ZQ

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abundant research suggested that the cancer cells avoid destruction by the immune system through down-regulation or mutation of death receptors. Therefore, it is very important that finding the agents that increase the death receptors of cancer cells. In this study, we demonstrated that the snake venom toxin...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Park MH,Jo M,Won D,Song HS,Han SB,Song MJ,Hong JT

更新日期：2012-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methylation of promoter region is the major mechanism affecting gene expression in tumors. Recent methylome studies of brain tumors revealed a list of new epigenetically modified genes. Our aim was to study promoter methylation of newly identified epigenetically silenced genes together with already known epi...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Skiriute D,Vaitkiene P,Saferis V,Asmoniene V,Skauminas K,Deltuva VP,Tamasauskas A

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:TGFβ signaling has typically been associated with suppression of tumor initiation while the role it plays in metastasis is generally associated with progression of malignancy. However, we present evidence here for an anti-metastatic role of TGFβ signaling. METHODS:To test the importance of TGFβ signaling to...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Simms NA,Rajput A,Sharratt EA,Ongchin M,Teggart CA,Wang J,Brattain MG

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are detectable in peripheral blood of metastatic breast cancer patients (MBC). In this paper we evaluate a new CTC separation method based on a combination of anti-EpCAM- and anti-cytokeratin magnetic cell separation with the aim to improve CTC detection with low target antigen...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Weissenstein U,Schumann A,Reif M,Link S,Toffol-Schmidt UD,Heusser P

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX) is superior to gemcitabine in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who have a good performance status. We investigated this combination as neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). METHODS:In this retrospectiv...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Hosein PJ,Macintyre J,Kawamura C,Maldonado JC,Ernani V,Loaiza-Bonilla A,Narayanan G,Ribeiro A,Portelance L,Merchan JR,Levi JU,Rocha-Lima CM

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the last two decades the use of laparoscopic resection and a multimodal approach known as an enhanced recovery programme, have been major changes in colorectal perioperative care. Clinical outcome improves using laparoscopic surgery to resect colorectal cancer but until recently no multicentre trial e...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Kennedy RH,Francis A,Dutton S,Love S,Pearson S,Blazeby JM,Quirke P,Franks PJ,Kerr DJ

更新日期：2012-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aboriginal status has been unreliably and incompletely recorded in health and vital registration data collections for the most populous areas of Australia, including NSW where 29% of Australian Aboriginal people reside. This paper reports an assessment of Aboriginal status recording in NSW cancer registratio...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Morrell S,You H,Baker D

更新日期：2012-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A life threatening illness such as breast cancer can lead to a secondary diagnosis of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) with intrusive thoughts and avoidance as major symptoms. In a former study by the research group, 80% of the patients with breast cancer reported a high level of stress symptoms close t...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Nordin K,Rissanen R,Ahlgren J,Burell G,Fjällskog ML,Börjesson S,Arving C

更新日期：2012-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive of the primary brain tumors, with a grim prognosis despite intensive treatment. In the past decades, progress in research has not significantly increased overall survival rate. METHODS:The in vitro antineoplastic effect and mechanism of action of Casiopei...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Trejo-Solís C,Jimenez-Farfan D,Rodriguez-Enriquez S,Fernandez-Valverde F,Cruz-Salgado A,Ruiz-Azuara L,Sotelo J

更新日期：2012-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among American men, prostate cancer is the most common, non-cutaneous malignancy that accounted for an estimated 241,000 new cases and 34,000 deaths in 2011. Previous studies have suggested that Wnt pathway inhibitory genes are silenced by CpG hypermethylation, and other studies have suggested that genistein...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Phillip CJ,Giardina CK,Bilir B,Cutler DJ,Lai YH,Kucuk O,Moreno CS

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that osteopontin (OPN) plays an important role in tumor progression and that a high OPN expression level in several tumor entities correlates with poor prognosis in cancer patients. However, little is known about the prognostic relevance of the OPN mRNA splice variants. METHODS:We analyzed ...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Hahnel A,Wichmann H,Greither T,Kappler M,Würl P,Kotzsch M,Taubert H,Vordermark D,Bache M

更新日期：2012-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) and its oxidative reaction products have been repeatedly shown to block steroid receptor function via nitrosation of zinc finger structures in the DNA-binding domain (DBD). In consequence NO-donors could be of special interest for the treatment of deregulated androgen receptor(AR)-signaling...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Laschak M,Spindler KD,Schrader AJ,Hessenauer A,Streicher W,Schrader M,Cronauer MV

更新日期：2012-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although socioeconomic status (SES) has been focused on as a key determinant of cancer stage at diagosis in western countries, there has been no systemic study on the relationship of SES and breast cancer stage at diagnosis in China. METHODS:The medical charts of 4,211 eligible breast cancer patients from 7...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Wang Q,Li J,Zheng S,Li JY,Pang Y,Huang R,Zhang BN,Zhang B,Yang HJ,Xie XM,Tang ZH,Li H,He JJ,Fan JH,Qiao YL

更新日期：2012-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) exhibit characteristics quite distinct from other kinds of breast cancer, presenting as an aggressive disease--recurring and metastasizing more often than other kinds of breast cancer, without tumor-specific treatment options and accounts for 15% of all types of breast ca...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Kaur P,Nagaraja GM,Zheng H,Gizachew D,Galukande M,Krishnan S,Asea A

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), one of the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, prior to routine immunohistochemical staining and the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors, were often mistaken for neoplasms of smooth muscle origin such as leiomyomas, leiomyosarcomas or l...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Call J,Walentas CD,Eickhoff JC,Scherzer N

更新日期：2012-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amphiregulin (AREG) and Epiregulin (EREG), ligands of EGFR, are reported to be predictive biomarkers of colorectal cancer patients treated with Cetuximab, an anti-EGFR antibody. The purpose of this study is to determine the correlation of AREG and EREG expression between primary colorectal cancer and corresp...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Kuramochi H,Nakajima G,Kaneko Y,Nakamura A,Inoue Y,Yamamoto M,Hayashi K

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:KAI1 was initially identified as a metastasis-suppressor gene in prostate cancer. It is a member of the tetraspan transmembrane superfamily (TM4SF) of membrane glycoproteins. As part of a tetraspanin-enriched microdomain (TEM), KAI1 inhibits tumor metastasis by negative regulation of Src. However, the underl...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Park JJ,Jin YB,Lee YJ,Lee JS,Lee YS,Ko YG,Lee M

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in metastatic prostate cancer patients provides prognostic and predictive information. However, it is the molecular characterization of CTCs that offers insight into the biology of these tumor cells in the context of personalized treatment. METHODS:We developed a...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Magbanua MJ,Sosa EV,Scott JH,Simko J,Collins C,Pinkel D,Ryan CJ,Park JW

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biological relevance of nuclear ErbB-2/HER2 (NuclErbB-2) presence in breast tumors remains unexplored. In this study we assessed the clinical significance of ErbB-2 nuclear localization in primary invasive breast cancer. The reporting recommendations for tumor marker prognostic studies (REMARK) guideline...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Schillaci R,Guzmán P,Cayrol F,Beguelin W,Díaz Flaqué MC,Proietti CJ,Pineda V,Palazzi J,Frahm I,Charreau EH,Maronna E,Roa JC,Elizalde PV

更新日期：2012-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BCA2 is an E3 ligase linked with hormone responsive breast cancers. We have demonstrated previously that the RING E3 ligase BCA2 has autoubiquitination activity and is a very unstable protein. Previously, only Rab7, tetherin, ubiquitin and UBC9 were known to directly interact with BCA2. METHODS:Here, additi...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Bacopulos S,Amemiya Y,Yang W,Zubovits J,Burger A,Yaffe M,Seth AK

更新日期：2012-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several stromal cell subtypes including macrophages contribute to tumor progression by inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) at the invasive front, a mechanism also linked to metastasis. Tumor associated macrophages (TAM) reside mainly at the invasive front but they also infiltrate tumors and in t...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Bonde AK,Tischler V,Kumar S,Soltermann A,Schwendener RA

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors associated with fatal pulmonary hemorrhage (PH) in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), treated with chemoradiotherapy. METHODS:The medical records of 583 patients with locally advanced NSCLC, who were treated with chem...

journal_title：BMC cancer

authors： Ito M,Niho S,Nihei K,Yoh K,Ohmatsu H,Ohe Y

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00