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Clinical Studies

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  Interferon γ, a Possible Therapeutic Approach for Late-stage Prostate Cancer?

  CLAIRE HASTIE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2843-2849;
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  Multicentre Phase II Trial of Paclitaxel and Carboplatin with Concurrent Radiotherapy in Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  ROGER TELL, CHRISTER SEDERHOLM, CLAES KLINTENBERG, LARS FRANKSSON, EVA BRANDÉN, GUNNAR HILLERDAL, ULF LÖNN, CARL-JOHAN LINDÉN, SVEN-BÖRJE EWERS, KRISTINA LAMBERG, EVA MRAZEK, BRITTA LÖDÉN, ANDERS SJÖGREN, THOMAS LINNÉ, SIGNE FRIESLAND and FLORIN SIRZÉN

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2851-2857;
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  A New Intraoperative Gamma Camera for the Sentinel Lymph Node Procedure in Breast Cancer

  CAROLE MATHELIN, SAMUEL SALVADOR, VIRGILE BEKAERT, SABRINA CROCE, NOROSOA ANDRIAMISANDRATSOA, PHILIPPE LIÉGEOIS, ERIC PRADOS, JEAN-LOUIS GUYONNET, DANIEL GRUCKER and DAVID BRASSE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2859-2864;
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  Bladder and Rectal Toxicity of BeamCath® Application in Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer

  SOLVEIG HANSSEN and JAN NORUM

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2865-2868;
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  Low-grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma of the Uterus: Review of 10 Cases

  VINCENT LANDRÉAT, NICOLAS PAILLOCHER, LAURENT CATALA, FABRICE FOUCHER, PHILIPPE DESCAMPS and JEAN LEVÊQUE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2869-2874;
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  Clinical Significance of Total Gastrectomy for Proximal Gastric Cancer

  AKIRA OOKI, KEISHI YAMASHITA, SHIRO KIKUCHI, SHINICHI SAKURAMOTO, NATSUYA KATADA, NOBUE HUTAWATARI and MASAHIKO WATANABE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2875-2883;
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  Surgical Treatment of Intrathyroid Metastases: Preliminary Results of a Multicentric Study

  FILIPPO CALZOLARI, PAOLA VINCENZA SARTORI, CARLO TALARICO, DOMENICO PARMEGGIANI, EDOARDO BERETTA, LUCIANO PEZZULLO, GIORGIO BOVO, PASQUALE SPERLONGANO, MASSIMO MONACELLI, ROBERTA LUCCHINI, CLAUDIA MISSO, ANGELA GURRADO, MICHELE D'AJELLO, FRANCO UGGERI, EFISIO PUXEDDU, PIERGIORGIO NASI, MARIO TESTINI, LODOVICO ROSATO, ALFONSO BARBARISI and NICOLA AVENIA

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2885-2888;
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  Laparoscopic Resection of a Retroperitoneal Ancient Schwannoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

  TATEKI YOSHINO and KENJI YONEDA

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2889-2891;
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  Morphological and Molecular Profiles and Pathways in Bladder Neoplasms

  ANTONIO LOPEZ-BELTRAN, LIANG CHENG, ROBERTA MAZZUCCHELLI, MARISTELLA BIANCONI, ANA BLANCA, MARINA SCARPELLI and RODOLFO MONTIRONI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2893-2900;
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  Biweekly Oxaliplatin and Irinotecan Chemotherapy in Advanced Gastric Cancer. A First-line Multicenter Phase II Trial of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medikamentöse Tumortherapie (AGMT)

  E. WÖLL, T. KÜHR, W. EISTERER, K. GATTRINGER, R. GREIL, A. ZABERNIGG, W. HILBE and J. THALER

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2901-2905;
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  A New Diagnostic Method for Early Gastric Cancer: Volume Measurement by 3-Dimensional Endoscopic Ultrasonography in Early Gastric Cancer and Its Clinical Significance

  NOBUE FUTAWATARI, SHIRO KIKUCHI, SHINICHI SAKURAMOTO, MITSUHIRO KIDA and MASAHIKO WATANABE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2907-2912;
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  Myelotoxicity as a Prognostic Factor in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer Treated with Chemotherapy: A Pooled Analysis of Two Randomised Trials Conducted by The Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group

  ANGELOS K. KOUTRAS, GEORGE FOUNTZILAS, URANIA DAFNI, MELETIOS A. DIMOPOULOS, DIMITRIOS PECTASIDES, GEORGE KLOUVAS, PAVLOS PAPAKOSTAS, PARIS KOSMIDIS, EPAMINONDAS SAMANTAS, HELEN GOGAS, EVANGELOS BRIASOULIS, GEORGIA VOURLI, THEODOROS PETSAS, NIKOLAOS XIROS, HARALABOS P. KALOFONOS and HELLENIC COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP (HeCoG)

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2913-2920;
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  Antitumor Activity and Some Immunological Properties of γδ T-Cells from Patients with Gastrointestinal Carcinomas

  MINORU MURAYAMA, YOSHIMASA TANAKA, JUNJI YAGI, TAKEHIKO UCHIYAMA and KENJI OGAWA

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2921-2931;
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  Phase I Study of Irinotecan Combined with Mitomycin-C and 5-Fluorouracil for Gynecological Malignancies: The JGOG Study

  KATSUJI KOKAWA, NAOHIKO UMESAKI, KAICHIRO YAMAMOTO, KEN TAKIZAWA, IKUO KONISHI, KAZUO HASEGAWA and JAPAN GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY GROUP

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2933-2939;
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  Polymorphisms of the DNA Repair Genes XRCC1 and XRCC3 and Risk of Lung and Colorectal Cancer: A Case-Control Study in a Southern Italian Population

  GIUSEPPINA IMPROTA, ALESSANDRO SGAMBATO, GABRIELLA BIANCHINO, ANGELA ZUPA, VITINA GRIECO, GIUSEPPE LA TORRE, ANTONIO TRAFICANTE and ACHILLE CITTADINI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2941-2946;
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  Clinical Utility of a Combination of Tumour Markers in the Diagnosis of Malignant Pleural Effusions

  M.J. GASPAR, J. DE MIGUEL, J.D. GARCÍA DÍAZ and M. DÍEZ

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2947-2952;
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  Report of Two Cases of Quintuple Primary Malignancies and Review of the Literature

  MARIA CECILIA CERCATO, ELVIRA COLELLA, VIRGINIA FERRARESI, MARIA GRAZIA DIODORO and RICCARDO TONACHELLA

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2953-2958;
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  Immunohistochemical Evaluation of Metallothionein, Mcm-2 and Ki-67 Antigen Expression in Tumors of the Adrenal Cortex

  ARTUR SZAJERKA, PIOTR DZIEGIEL, TOBIASZ SZAJERKA, MACIEJ ZABEL, JACEK WINOWSKI and ZYGMUNT GRZEBIENIAK

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2959-2965;
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  Positive Correlation between Cyclooxygenase 2 and the Expression of ABC Transporters in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  PAWEŁ SUROWIAK, KONRAD PAWEŁCZYK, ADAM MACIEJCZYK, MAREK PUDEŁKO, JERZY KOŁODZIEJ, MACIEJ ZABEL, DAWID MURAWA, MARCIN DRAG, TSERENCHUNT GANSUKH, MANFRED DIETEL and HERMANN LAGE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2967-2974;
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  Activated p38-MAPK and Gemcitabine Sensitivity in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

  RENATE KLOTZ, ALAIN GUSTAVE ZEIMET, DANIEL REIMER, ELISABETH MÜLLER-HOLZNER, MARTINA CHAMSON and CHRISTIAN MARTH

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2975-2980;
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  TUNEL as a Tumor Marker of Tongue Cancer

  OFER BEN-IZHAK, ZVI LASTER, SHARON AKRISH, GOLAN COHEN and RAFAEL M. NAGLER

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2981-2986;
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  Oxaliplatin-eluting Microspheres for the Treatment of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: A Case Report

  GUIDO POGGI, PIETRO QUARETTI, CLAUDIO MINOIA, ILARIA PALUMBO, LAURA VILLANI, ALESSIO AMATU, CRISTINA TERAGNI, MARIO SCELSI, FEDERICO ZAPPOLI and GIOVANNI BERNARDO

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2987-2990;
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  Expression and Prognostic Significance of PDCD4 in Human Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma

  XIAOYAN WANG, ZENGTAO WEI, FEI GAO, XIA ZHANG, CHENGJUN ZHOU, FALIANG ZHU, QUN WANG, QI GAO, CHUNHONG MA, WENSHENG SUN, BEIHUA KONG and LINING ZHANG

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2991-2996;
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  The Role of Podoplanin in Tumor Progression and Metastasis

  MARIUS RAICA, ANCA MARIA CIMPEAN and DOMENICO RIBATTI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 2997-3006;
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  Occult Prostate Cancer Effects the Results of Case-Control Studies Due to Verification Bias

  TARO IGUCHI, CHING Y. WANG, NICOLAS B. DELONGCHAMPS, ROBERT SUNHEIMER, TATSUYA NAKATANI, GUSTAVO DE LA ROZA and GABRIEL P. HAAS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3007-3010;
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  Pleomorphic Adenoma of Salivary Glands Does Not Appear to Be a BRCA-1-dependent Tumour in a Polish Cohort

  JAKUB LUBIŃSKI, CZESŁAWA TARNOWSKA, EWA JAWOROWSKA, TOMASZ BYRSKI, ANNA JAKUBOWSKA, BOGDAN GÓRSKI, STANISŁAW BIEŃ, JACEK SYGUT, STANISŁAW GÓŹDŹ, MONIKA SIOŁEK, MIECZYSŁAW SULIKOWSKI and JAN LUBIŃSKI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3011-3013;
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  Validation of the Graded Prognostic Assessment Index for Surgically Treated Patients with Brain Metastases

  CARSTEN NIEDER, HANS GEINITZ and MICHAEL MOLLS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3015-3017;
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  Gefitinib in Combination with Gemcitabine and Vinorelbine in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Pre-treated with Taxane and Anthracycline Chemotherapy: A Phase I/II Trial

  IOANNIS GIOULBASANIS, ZACHARENIA SARIDAKI, ANTONIA KALYKAKI, LAMBROS VAMVAKAS, KOSTAS KALBAKIS, MICHAIL IGNATIADIS, KYRIAKOS AMARANTIDIS, STYLIANOS KAKOLYRIS, VASSILIS GEORGOULIAS and DIMITRIS MAVROUDIS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3019-3025;
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  ProGRP and NSE in Therapy Monitoring in Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer

  EWA WÓJCIK, JAN K. KULPA, BEATA SAS-KORCZYŃSKA, STANISŁAW KORZENIOWSKI and JERZY JAKUBOWICZ

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3027-3033;
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  Hypofractionated Accelerated Radiotherapy, Cytoprotection and Capecitabine in the Treatment of Rectal Cancer: A Feasibility Study

  MICHAEL I. KOUKOURAKIS, CONSTANTINOS SIMOPOULOS, MICHAEL PITIAKOUDIS, NIKOLAOS LYRATZOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS ROMANIDIS, ALEXANDRA GIATROMANOLAKI, ALEXANDROS POLYCHRONIDIS, GEORGE KOUKLAKIS, EFTHIMIOS SIVRIDIS, GEORGE MINOPOULOS and KONSTANTINOS MANOLAS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3035-3040;
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  Adriamycin, Cisplatin, Ifosfamide and Paclitaxel Combination as Front-line Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced and Metastatic Angiosarcoma. Analysis of Three Case Reports and Review of the Literature

  IRÈNE ASMANE, VALÈRE LITIQUE, STEVE HEYMANN, LUC MARCELLIN, ANNE-CÉCILE MÉTIVIER, BRIGITTE DUCLOS, JEAN-PIERRE BERGERAT and JEAN-EMMANUEL KURTZ

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3041-3045;
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  Breast Metastasis 56 Months before the Diagnosis of Primary Ovarian Cancer: A Case Study

  SUSANNE E. SCHNEUBER, HEINZ S. SCHOLZ, PETER REGITNIG, EDGAR PETRU and RAIMUND WINTER

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3047-3050;
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  Toxic Encephalopathy and Delayed MTX Clearance after High-dose Methotrexate Therapy in a Child Homozygous for the MTHFR C677T Polymorphism

  JUDIT MÜLLER, JUDIT KRALOVÁNSZKY, VILMOS ADLEFF, ÉVA PAP, KRISZTINA NÉMETH, VIKTOR KOMLÓSI and GÁBOR KOVÁCS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3051-3054;
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  Gemcitabine and Protracted 5-Fluorouracil Infusion as Third-line Chemotherapy in Refractory Colorectal Cancer Patients

  RAFFAELLA BITOSSI, CARLA MARIA SCULLI, MARCO TAMPELLINI, IRENE ALABISO, MARIA PIA BRIZZI, ANNA FERRERO, AZZURRA OTTONE, ELISA BELLINI, GABRIELLA GORZEGNO, ALFREDO BERRUTI and LUIGI DOGLIOTTI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3055-3060;
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  Procalcitonin as a Useful Marker of Infection in Hemato-oncological Patients with Fever

  MARIA T. SANDRI, RITA PASSERINI, MARIA E. LEON, FEDRO A. PECCATORI, LAURA ZORZINO, MICHELA SALVATICI, DANIELA RIGGIO, CRISTINA CASSATELLA, SAVERIO CINIERI and GIOVANNI MARTINELLI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3061-3065;
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  Evaluation of a Manual ELISA Kit for Determination of HER2/neu in Serum of Breast Cancer Patients

  ANNE-SOPHIE GAUCHEZ, NADIA RAVANEL, DANIÈLE VILLEMAIN, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BRAND, DOMINIQUE PASQUIER, RAOUL PAYAN and MIREILLE MOUSSEAU

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3067-3073;
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  Evaluation of Fixed Dosing of New Anticancer Agents in Phase I Studies

  DOMINIQUE LEVÊQUE

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3075-3077;
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  Association Between Genetic Polymorphisms and Ovarian Cancer Risk

  LAETITIA DELORT, NASSÉRA CHALABI, SAMIR SATIH, NADÈGE RABIAU, FABRICE KWIATKOWSKI, YVES-JEAN BIGNON and DOMINIQUE J BERNARD-GALLON

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3079-3081;
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  Primary Uterine Leiomyosarcoma and Primary Atypical Meningioma Diagnosed during Pregnancy

  BARBARA BODNER-ADLER, PLAMEN LOZANO, KLAUS BODNER and HARALD ZEISLER

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3083-3085;
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  Bevacizumab Added to the Irinotecan and Capecitabine Combination for Advanced Colorectal Cancer: A Well-tolerated, Active and Convenient Regimen

  ALEXANDROS ARDAVANIS, PANTELEIMON KOUNTOURAKIS, IOANNIS MANTZARIS, SAVVOULA MALLIOU, DIMITRIOS DOUFEXIS, DESPINA SYKOUTRI, IOANNIS FRAGOS and GERASSIMOS RIGATOS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3087-3092;
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  Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy with Vinorelbine-containing Regimens in Elderly Patients with Locally Advanced Breast Cancer

  CHUAN-DONG MA, CAN-MING CHEN, XIAO-SONG CHEN, GUANG-YU LIU, GEN-HONG DI, JIONG WU, JIN-SONG LU, WEN-TAO YANG, JIA-YI CHEN, ZHI-MIN SHAO, ZHEN-ZHOU SHEN and KUN-WEI SHEN

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3093-3097;
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  Safety of Nab-paclitaxel plus Sunitinib: Analysis of Three Cases

  ARKADIUSZ Z. DUDEK and SHEILA NGUYEN

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3099-3105;
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  Von Recklinghausen's Disease Associated with Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor Presenting with Constipation and Urinary Retention: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

  PARTHENA KARATZOGLOU, ALEXANDROS KARAGIANNIDIS, JANNIS KOUNTOURAS, CHRISTOS V. CHRISTOFIRIDIS, MARIA KARAVALAKI, CHRISTOS ZAVOS, EMMANUEL GAVALAS, KALLIOPI PATSIAOURA and NIKOLAOS VOUGIOUKLIS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3107-3113;
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  Fatal Thrombocytopenia after Oxaliplatin-based Chemotherapy

  YU-YUN SHAO and RUEY-LONG HONG

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3115-3117;
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  Protective Effect of Cox-2 Allelic Variants on Risk of Colorectal Adenoma Development in African Americans

  HASSAN ASHKTORAB, SHIRLEY TSANG, BRIAN LUKE, ZHONGHE SUN, LUCILE ADAM-CAMPBELL, JOHN KWAGYAN, RICHARD POIRIER, SHAHINA AKTER, AHMAD AKHGAR, DUANE SMOOT, DAVID J. MUNROE and IQBAL UNNISA ALI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3119-3123;
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  Telomerase Activity in Head and Neck Cancer

  ZUZANA KUNICKÁ, IGOR MUCHA and JIŘÍ FAJKUS

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3125-3129;
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  Endocervical Cytobrush for the Detection of Cervical Dysplasia Before Large Loop Excision of the Transformation Zone (LLETZ)

  CLEMENS TEMPFER, STEPHAN POLTERAUER, CHRISTOPH GRIMM, EVA-KATRIN BENTZ, ALEXANDER REINTHALLER and LUKAS A. HEFLER

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3131-3134;
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  Ovarian Cancer Detection and Treatment: Current Situation and Future Prospects

  MARYLÈNE ARGENTO, PASCALE HOFFMAN and ANNE-SOPHIE GAUCHEZ

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3135-3138;
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  High-dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Stem Cell Rescue in Stage IIIB Inflammatory Breast Cancer

  KIRAN YALAMANCHILI, JUDY LALMUANPUII, FAISAL WAHEED, SASSAN FARJAMI, RAM KANCHERLA, ZEESHAN QURESHI, ALBERT HOANG, YUSUF KHALED, DIANA LAKE, CARMELLO PUCCIO, HOO G. CHUN, KAREN SEITER and TAUSEEF AHMED

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3139-3142;
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  Concurrent Radiotherapy, Paclitaxel and Dose Escalating Carboplatin in the Treatment of Cervical Cancer - A Phase I Study

  DANIELA ADDEO, STEPHANIE BLANK, FRANCO MUGGIA and SILVIA FORMENTI

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3143-3146;
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  Invasive Breast Cancer Treated with Taxol and Epirubicin Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy: The Role in the Outcome of the “Crosstalk” between Erb Receptors and p53

  DAVID SARID, ILAN G. RON, LIOR SHOSHAN, ITAI BARNEA, SIMA SHINA, MIMI BARATZ, JULIA GREENBERG, OFER MERIMSKY, RAMI BEN-YOSEF, SHAHAR LEV-ARI, YAFFA KEIDAR and NEORA YAAL-HAHOSHEN

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3147-3152;
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  Diagnostic Procedures for Small Pulmonary Nodules Detected by Mass-screening

  KOUJI KANEMOTO, HIROAKI SATOH, HIROICHI ISHIKAWA, KATSUNORI KAGOHASHI, KOICHI KURISHIMA and KIYOHISA SEKIZAWA

  Anticancer Research September 2008, 28 (5B) 3153-3155;