abstract：:Neuroblastoma is a childhood malignancy originating from cells of the sympathetic nervous system, exhibiting a marked diversity in outcome, with spontaneous regression at one end of the spectrum and severe disease and death at the other end. Features associated with frequent recurrence, a poor prognosis, and high tumo...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Jögi A,Abel F,Sjöberg RM,Toftgård R,Zaphiropoulos PG,Påhlman S,Martinsson T,Axelson H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the usefulness of oral doxifluridine (5'-DFUR), an active intermediate metabolite of capecitabine (XELODA), in gastric cancer patients after curative resection, we conducted a phase III randomized controlled study to compare oral 5'-DFUR and oral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). 485 gastric cancer patients with S...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Takiguchi N,Nakajima N,Saitoh N,Fujimoto S,Nakazato H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the genes that the authors have isolated by a differential display of hepatocellular carcinoma compared to adjacent liver is the alpha6 integrin. alpha6 integrin is the major adhesion receptor for laminin and is suggested to be involved in tumor cell invasion and metastasis. To our knowledge, however, there are...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tanaka Y,Mimori K,Shiraishi T,Ohkura Y,Takubo K,Mafune K,Barnard GF,Mori M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed Stanniocalcin-1 (STC-1) mRNA expression in human normal tissues, various types of human cancer cell lines, and cancer tissues obtained during surgery. Using a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay developed to detect STC-1 mRNA, the transcripts were detected in 20 out of 21 cancer ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Fujiwara Y,Sugita Y,Nakamori S,Miyamoto A,Shiozaki K,Nagano H,Sakon M,Monden M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional defects in DNA mismatch repair genes have been shown to be associated mainly with hereditary human malignancies. We examined genomic DNA from 88 sporadic transitional cell carcinomas (TCCs) of the urinary tract for mutations in hMSH6 gene by polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing analysis. Mutation...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Furihata M,Shuin T,Takeuchi T,Sonobe H,Ohtsuki Y,Akiyama Y,Yuasa Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated lymphoma development in transgenic mice deficient in retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARalpha). High incidence of lymphoma development in this transgenic mouse model system was similar to lymphoma development in p53 knockout mice. In an effort to understand the molecular basis of lymphomagenesis...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Haidar MA,Manshouri T,Keating MJ,Kantarjian HM,Freireich EJ,Mehta K,Albitar M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-beta1) has been shown to exhibit anti-proliferative activity for mammary gland epithelial cells and for human breast cancer cells. Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), in contrast, is a well-characterized mitogenic and anti-apoptotic factor involved in mammary gland physiology. I...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Huynh H,Beamer W,Pollak M,Chan TW

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the colon tumor cell surface and the endothelial cell layer is an important component of tumor intravasation, extravasation, and metastasis. Multiple studies suggest that tumor cells may bind to E-selectin expressed on endothelial cells during these processes. To identify possible E-selectin li...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tomlinson J,Wang JL,Barsky SH,Lee MC,Bischoff J,Nguyen M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active metabolite of vitamin D, 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, can induce differentiation in breast cancer cells; however, it is hypercalcemic in vivo. Therefore, development of non-calcemic analogs of vitamin D has received considerable attention. Recently, we synthesized an analog of vitamin D [1alpha(OH)D5] tha...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Mehta RR,Bratescu L,Graves JM,Green A,Mehta RG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1992 to December 1995, 129 patients with previously untreated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were randomised in a phase III multicenter trial to receive CEOP-B/VIMB or ProMACE-CytaBOM. Eligibility criteria included intermediate or high grade lymphoma (follicular large cell, diffuse small cleaved-cell, diffuse mix...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lorusso V,Palmieri G,Bianco AR,Abate G,Catalano G,De Vita F,Dammacco F,Lauta VM,Lucarelli G,Polimeno G,Mantovani G,D'Aprile M,Marzullo F,De Lena M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTEN, a gene encoding a dual specificity phosphatase, is frequently altered in endometrial carcinoma. Moreover, these alterations are observed even in atypical hyperplasia of the endometrium. This evidence suggests that mutation of PTEN is an early genetic alteration involved in endometrial carcinogenesis. Adenovirus-...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sakurada A,Hamada H,Fukushige S,Yokoyama T,Yoshinaga K,Furukawa T,Sato S,Yajima A,Sato M,Fujimura S,Horii A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid receptor analysis is the only widely accepted prognostic/predictive marker in breast cancer (BC) treatment. In the present study we evaluated the prognostic role of ER/PgR with p53 and Bcl2, in a series of 277 BC (153 pN1/2, 122 pNO, 2 pNx) with a long-term follow-up (67 months for DFS, 75 months for OS). Our ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Mauri FA,Maisonneuve P,Caffo O,Veronese S,Aldovini D,Ferrero S,Cozzaglio F,Dalla Palma P,Galligioni E,Barbareschi M

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in cancer biology data and treatment. Cancer research has opened exciting new areas of cellular and molecular biology. Month by month, new genes which regulate the carcinogenesis process are being discovered. The result is an incredible knowledge of cance...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kanduc D,Bannasch P,Farber E

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expressions of p53 protein and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) were immunohistochemically investigated in 111 patients with papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) in order to evaluate their co-expression in relation to lymph node metastases (LNM), tumor size and clinicopathologic stage. In PTC, positive staining f...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Chen BK,Ohtsuki Y,Furihata M,Takeuchi T,Iwata J,Liang SB,Sonobe H

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein DNA polymerase which maintains the telomeric region of human chromosomes and has been detected in all types of human cancer tested. We used the telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay to examine 71 non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) and their adjacent normal tis...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Xinarianos G,Scott FM,Liloglou T,Prime W,Callaghan J,Gosney JR,Field JK

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platinum complex trans-[PtCl2¿E-HN=C(OMe)Me¿2] was compared to cisplatin for cytotoxicity towards tumour cells, and for cellular pharmacological properties in A2780 and cisplatin-resistant A2780/Cp8 ovarian cancer cells. Trans-[PtCl2¿E-HN=C(OMe)Me¿2] was comparably cytotoxic to cisplatin (mean IC50 after 72 h expo...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Coluccia M,Nassi A,Boccarelli A,Giordano D,Cardellicchio N,Intini FP,Natile G,Barletta A,Paradiso A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissemination of single tumor cells to the bone marrow is a common event in cancer. The clinical significance of cytokeratin-positive cells detected in the bone marrow of cancer patients is still a matter of debate. In gastric cancer, overexpression of the receptor (uPAR or CD87) for the serine protease urokinase-type...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Noack F,Helmecke D,Rosenberg R,Thorban S,Nekarda H,Fink U,Lewald J,Stich M,Schutze K,Harbeck N,Magdolen V,Graeff H,Schmitt M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance may be classified as active (or competitive) (due to excess amount of a factor) vs passive (or non-competitive) (due to a deficiency of a factor). Passive resistance may be important in human solid tumors. In passive resistance, the dose-response curve may be shallow, or may flatten at a relatively low dose...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Stewart DJ,Goel R,Gertler SZ,Huan S,Tomiak EM,Yau J,Cripps C,Evans WK

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation (IR) is frequently unsuccessful in the treatment of cancer because of local failure or distant metastases. The efficacy of systemically administered cytokines for cancer therapy is often limited by toxicity. We report that intratumoral injection of an adenoviral vector with interleukin-12 (IL-12) en...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Seetharam S,Staba MJ,Schumm LP,Schreiber K,Schreiber H,Kufe DW,Weichselbaum RR

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A normal human lymphocyte-derived 54 kDa polypeptide, capable of regulating cell growth has been identified as an isoform variant (abbreviated as NP54) of protein neuroleukin-phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI). Since distinct PGI variants undetectable in normal tissues had been identified in breast cancer tissues, the eff...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Chiao JW,Xu W,Yang YM,Kancherla R,Seiter K,Ahmed T,Mittelman A

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres, repeated DNA sequences (T2AG3)n that guard the ends of chromosomes, serve as a checkpoint for cell-cycle progression and regulate cell senescence and apoptosis. Loss of the telomeric repeats promotes genomic instability, which is the hallmark of most cancer cells. Whether this loss differs among tumor cells...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Multani AS,Ozen M,Sen S,Mandal AK,Price JE,Fan D,Radinsky R,Ali-Osman F,Von Eschenbach AC,Fidler IJ,Pathak S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between p53 point mutation and patient survival was examined in 328 colorectal cancer patients. Point mutation was detected in 51% (166/328) of cases and was associated with a poorer prognosis in univariate and multivariate analysis. However, subcohort analysis showed that this relationship was restri...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Goh HS,Elnatan J,Low CH,Smith DR

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of either of the multidrug resistance genes MDR1 and MRP is associated with resistance of tumors to multiple chemotherapeutic agents. Overexpression of MDR1 has been reported in some cell lines derived from human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) and hepatoblastomas (HB). The human gene for cMOAT (

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Minemura M,Tanimura H,Tabor E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study tumor-specific CTL effector and memory responses were analyzed in normal mice, in tumor bearing mice and in animals treated by active specific immunotherapy (ASI) with an autologous virus modified tumor vaccine. In the well defined DBA/2 mouse lymphoma model ESb, the tumor specific CTL response requires ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Schirrmacher V

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine kinase (TK) activity in rat hepatoma JB1 and AH136B was mainly due to cytosolic TK and was much higher than that in rat regenerating liver. Two forms of cytosolic TK, designated as TK-I and TK-II, were revealed in addition to mitochondrial TK in anion-exchange high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lin L,Islam MM,Du M,Ohmura Y,Hiwasa T,Fujimura S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B virus (HBV) encodes a 16.5 kDa multifunctional protein termed pX or HBx, required for transcription of the viral genome and implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in chronic HBV-infected patients. However, the mechanism of pX-mediated hepatocarcinogenesis remains unknown. pX is...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Andrisani OM,Barnabas S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sentinel node (SN) mapping and biopsy is a procedure that accurately stages the regional lymph node (LN) basin. Defined patterns of lymphatic drainage allow intraoperative determination of the first (sentinel) lymph node in the regional basin, and the absence of metastatic disease in the SN accurately reflects the abs...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Gennari R,Stoldt HS,Bartolomei M,Zurrida S,Testori A,Mazzarol G,Paganelli G,Veronesi U

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the oncosuppressive activity of integrated and episomal adeno-associated virus (AAV), two Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) derived episomal form vectors, p205 and p220, were used to generate plasmids containing episomal AAV. HeLa cells transfected with p205, p220, and the plasmids with forward (pA205-1, pA220-1) an...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Wu FY,Wu CY,Lin CH,Wu CH

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of differentiation in a variety of model systems is accompanied by cell cycle exit and inhibition of Cdk2 kinase activity. We asked whether inhibition of Cdk2 activity is sufficient to allow differentiation to occur in a non-small cell lung cancer cell line. Treatment of NCI-H358 with flavopiridol, an inhibi...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lee HR,Chang TH,Tebalt MJ 3rd,Senderowicz AM,Szabo E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p16INK4A tumor suppressor gene is frequently inactivated in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and is less frequently inactivated in small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) by mutation, deletion or DNA methylation. There are several reports that the reintroduction of the p16INK4A gene into p16(-) NSCLC cells results i...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sumitomo K,Shimizu E,Shinohara A,Yokota J,Sone S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chondrosarcoma cells (HCS-TG) were transduced with the gene for a herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) or Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase (lacZ). We investigated the cytotoxicity of human chondrosarcoma bearing an HSV-tk gene after treatment with ganciclovir. Chondrosarcoma cells bearing an HSV-tk ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Seto M,Wakabayashi H,Yamazaki T,Sonoda J,Shinto Y,Uchida A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta1 stimulates proliferation of WI38 human embryo fibroblasts but inhibits that of their SV40-transformed counterparts, VA13 cells. Protein expression levels of cyclins A, D1, E and that of cdk2 and cdk4 were not affected by TGF-beta1 in either of these cells. However, TGF-beta1-treatment increases cdk2 kinase a...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Dkhissi F,Raynal S,Lawrence DA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy French high-risk families were screened for germ-line BRCA-1 mutations. The BRCA-1 coding region and the exon-intron boundaries were sequenced, except when pre-screening by PTT revealed a truncated protein in exon 11. Germ-line BRCA-1 mutations were detected in 24% of families. The number of breast and ovarian...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Laplace-Marieze V,Presneau N,Sylvain V,Kwiatkowski F,Lortholary A,Hardouin A,Bignon YJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary intracerebral lymphoma is an uncommon presenting site for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The authors review 28 histopathologically confirmed, consecutive cases, presenting over a 15-year period. The cohort included 20 males and 8 females with a mean age at diagnosis of 54 years (range 27-75 years). Subtotal resection...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Hough RE,Smith CM,Nakielny RA,Robinson MH,Jacubowski J,Lorigan PC,Hancock BW

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the significance of microsatellite instability (MI) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in the development of different histological subgroups of liposarcomas, we examined 28 tissue-samples from 21 patients and the corresponding non-neoplastic reference tissues. We investigated nine microsatellite loci and de...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Schneider-Stock R,Szibor R,Walter H,Plate I,Roessner A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic value of immunohistochemical staining of P53, BCL-2, p27kip1, PSA, AR and MIB-1 was compared with that of established prognostic variables (Gleason score, surgical margins, tumour volume) following radical prostatectomy. Five groups were selected: negative margins with stable serum PSA (n=11), negative ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Bai XZ,Masters JR,O'Donoghue N,Kirby R,Pan LX,Young M,Stafford M,Parkinson MC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous infantile hemangioma progresses through proliferation and involution phases. Since treatment with interferon, a negative regulator of angiogenesis, accelerates the involution phase, we hypothesized that cutaneous infantile hemangioma is associated with an imbalance between endogenous positive and negative re...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Bielenberg DR,Bucana CD,Sanchez R,Mulliken JB,Folkman J,Fidler IJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour growth is frequently associated with massive loss of body weight and negative nitrogen balance leading to cachexia, one of the worst features of malignancy accounting for nearly two thirds of cancer deaths. At the metabolic level, cachexia is associated with depletion of body lipid stores as well as loss of ske...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Argilés JM,Costelli P,Carbó N,Pallarés-Trujillo J,López-Soriano FJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) and newly multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP) was found to correlate well with primary 5-FU resistance in 7 human gastrointestinal cancer cell lines. Although mRNA and protein levels of thymidylate synthase (TS) did not relate to the resistance, 5-FU t...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kirihara Y,Yamamoto W,Toge T,Nishiyama M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of vorozole, a potent and specific non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor, were evaluated on female Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats with 7, 12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary tumors. Vorozole at a dose of 0.25, 1.0 and 4.0 mg/kg was orally administered once a day for 28 consecutive days. A significant reg...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sugamata N,Koibuchi Y,Iino Y,Morishita Y

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00