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Clinical Studies

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  Significance of S100A4 as a Prognostic Marker of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  MIKA TSUNA, SHUN-ICHIRO KAGEYAMA, JUNYA FUKUOKA, HARUHISA KITANO, YOSHINORI DOKI, HIDEO TEZUKA and HIDEYO YASUDA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2547-2554;
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  Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Cancer: Factors Associated with Clinical Response and Postoperative Complications

  MASARU MORITA, TAKANOBU MASUDA, SATOKO OKADA, KEIJI YOSHINAGA, HIROSHI SAEKI, ERIKO TOKUNAGA, KAZUYA ENDO, YASUNORI EMI, YOSHIHIRO KAKEJI and YOSHIHIKO MAEHARA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2555-2562;
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  Chemotherapy Response Evaluation in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer with FDG PET/CT and CT Scans

  J. MONTEIL, N. MAHMOUDI, S. LEOBON, P.Y. ROUDAUT, A. EL BADAOUI, S. VERBEKE, L. VENAT-BOUVET, J. MARTIN, V. LE BRUN-LY, S. LAVAU-DENES, A. MAUBON, P. BOUILLET, M. POUQUET, J.C. VANDROUX and N. TUBIANA-MATHIEU

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2563-2568;
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  Anaemia and Other Predictors of Fatigue Among Patients on Palliative Therapy for Advanced Cancer

  A. LATVALA, K. SYRJÄNEN, H. SALMENOJA and E. SALMINEN

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2569-2575;
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  Discrepancies in Expression and Prognostic Value of Tumor Markers in Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Cervical Cancer

  ANNIKA K. LINDSTRÖM, TIBOR TOT, ULF STENDAHL, STINA SYRJÄNEN, KARI SYRJÄNEN and DAN HELLBERG

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2577-2578;
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  Insulin-like Growth Factor-binding Protein-3 in Osteosarcomas and Normal Bone Tissues

  SIGRUN RESSLER, JASIM RADHI, THOMAS AIGNER, CHRISTINE LOO, WERNER ZWERSCHKE and CONSOLATO SERGI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2579-2587;
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  New Markers and Multivariate Models for Prostate Cancer Detection

  CARSTEN STEPHAN, HARRY RITTENHOUSE, HENNING CAMMANN, MICHAEL LEIN, MARK SCHRADER, SERDAR DEGER, KURT MILLER and KLAUS JUNG

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2589-2600;
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  Amitriptyline in the Prevention of Chemotherapy-induced Neuropathic Symptoms

  ANNA-LIISA KAUTIO, MAIJA HAANPÄÄ, ARTO LEMINEN, EIJA KALSO, HANNU KAUTIAINEN and TIINA SAARTO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2601-2606;
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  Pseudoprogression and MGMT Status in Glioblastoma Patients: Implications in Clinical Practice

  ALESSANDRA FABI, MICHELANGELO RUSSILLO, GIULIO METRO, ANTONELLO VIDIRI, SALVATORE DI GIOVANNI and FRANCESCO COGNETTI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2607-2610;
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  Efficacy of Orally Administered Superfine Dispersed Lentinan (β-1,3-Glucan) for the Treatment of Advanced Colorectal Cancer

  SHOICHI HAZAMA, SEIJI WATANABE, MANABU OHASHI, MASASHI YAGI, MICHINARI SUZUKI, KENJI MATSUDA, TATSUHITO YAMAMOTO, YASUYO SUGA, TETSUYA SUGA, SABURO NAKAZAWA and MASAAKI OKA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2611-2617;
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  Quantitative Analysis of Tumor-derived Methylated RUNX3 Sequences in the Serum of Gastric Cancer Patients

  CHOUHEI SAKAKURA, TAKUO HAMADA, KOJI MIYAGAWA, MINORU NISHIO, ATUSHI MIYASHITA, HIROYUKI NAGATA, HIROSHI IDA, SHUJIRO YAZUMI, EIGO OTSUJI, TSUTOMU CHIBA, KOSEI ITO and YOSHIAKI ITO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2619-2625;
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  Definitive Conformal Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: A Long-term Follow-up Study

  CORDULA M.C. DEICHMUELLER, GERD WEGENER, JOHANN H. KARSTENS and FRANK BRUNS

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2627-2634;
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  VEGF in Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer during Combination Chemotherapy of Carboplatin and Paclitaxel

  MASATO SHINGYOJI, SOICHIRO ANDO, HIROKI NISHIMURA, TAKAHIRO NAKAJIMA, AKI ISHIKAWA, MEIJI ITAKURA, TOSHIHIKO IIZASA and HIDEKI KIMURA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2635-2639;
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  Does Distance to Treatment Centre Influence the Rate of Palliative Radiotherapy in Adult Cancer Patients?

  CARSTEN NIEDER, JAN NORUM, ODDVAR SPANNE, INGVILD BILBERG, GEIRFINN VAGSTAD and ASTRID DALHAUG

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2641-2644;
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  Prospective Study on Neck Dissection after Primary Chemoradiation Therapy in Stage IV Pharyngeal Cancer

  M. BREMKE, P.J. BARTH, A.M. SESTERHENN, V. BUDACH, R. ENGENHART-CABILLIC and J.A. WERNER

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2645-2653;
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  Giant Basal Cell Carcinoma: Clinicopathological Analysis of 51 Cases and Review of the Literature

  MARIA ARCHONTAKI, SPYROS D. STAVRIANOS, DIMITRIS P. KORKOLIS, NIKI ARNOGIANNAKI, VASILIOS VASSILIADIS, IOANNIS E. LIAPAKIS, HILDEGARD CHRIST, ALEXANDER D. RAPIDIS and GEORGIOS KOKKALIS

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2655-2663;
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  Novel Strategy of Anti-angiogenic Therapy for Uterine Cervical Carcinomas

  JIRO FUJIMOTO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2665-2669;
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  Impact of Interstitial Lung Disease on Survival for Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  KUNIHIKO MIYAZAKI, HIROAKI SATOH, KOICHI KURISHIMA, RYOTA NAKAMURA, HIROICHI ISHIKAWA, KATSUNORI KAGOHASHI, GEN OHARA and NOBUYUKI HIZAWA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2671-2674;
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  Side-effects of Pre-operative Epirubicin-Paclitaxel Therapy in Primary Breast Cancer Associated with Tumor Biology

  MATHIAS WARM, RONALD KATES, ANKE THOMAS, THOMAS FISCHER and NADIA HARBECK

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2675-2680;
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  Cisplatin-Ifosfamide-Gemcitabine as Salvage Chemotherapy in Ovarian Cancer Patients Pretreated with Platinum Compounds and Paclitaxel

  ARISTIDES POLYZOS, NIKOLAS TSAVARIS, HELEN GOGAS, ANTONIOS LAGADAS, KOSTAS POLYZOS, KOSTAS GIANNAKOPOULOS, EVANGELOS FELEKOURAS, CHRISTOS TSIGRIS, THEODOROS KARATZAS, OTHON PAPADOPOULOS and ATHANASIOS GIANNOPOULOS

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2681-2686;
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  Preoperative Leukocytosis, Anemia and Thrombocytosis Are Associated with Poor Survival in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  MASAKI TOMITA, TETSUYA SHIMIZU, MASAKI HARA, TAKANORI AYABE and TOSHIO ONITSUKA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2687-2690;
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  Biological and Clinical Features in Predicting Efficacy of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

  MARINA CHIARA GARASSINO, KAREN BORGONOVO, ANTONIO ROSSI, ANDREA MANCUSO, OLGA MARTELLI, ANGELO TINAZZI, SERENA DI COSIMO, NICLA LA VERDE, PAOLA SBURLATI, CELSO BIANCHI, GABRIELLA FARINA and VALTER TORRI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2691-2701;
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  Clinical Characteristics of Laryngeal Cancer in BRCA-1 Mutation Carriers

  EWA JAWOROWSKA, CZESLAWA TARNOWSKA, JAKUB LUBIŃSKI, PABLO SERRANO-FERNÁNDEZ, TOMASZ HUZARSKI, BOGDAN GÓRSKI, BARTLOMIEJ MASOJĆ, JERZY JAKUBISZYN, ALEKSANDRA KORYTOWSKA, ANDRZEJ KRAM, JERZY RABCZYNSKI and JAN LUBIŃSKI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2703-2705;
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  Altered Calcium Metabolism in Patients on Long-term Bisphosphonate Therapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer

  CHRISTINE SIMMONS, EITAN AMIR, GEORGE DRANITSARIS, MARK CLEMONS, BETTY WONG, REINHOLD VEITH and DAVID E.C. COLE

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2707-2711;
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  Decrease of E-Cadherin Expression in Canine Cutaneous Histiocytoma Appears to be Related to its Spontaneous Regression

  ISABEL PIRES, FELISBINA LUISA QUEIROGA, ANABELA ALVES, FILIPE SILVA and CARLOS LOPES

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2713-2717;
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  Fifty-five Minimally Invasive Esophagectomies: A Single Centre Experience

  SEBASTIAN F. SCHOPPMANN, GERHARD PRAGER, FELIX LANGER, MARTIN RIEGLER, EDITH FLEISCHMAN and JOHANNES ZACHERL

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2719-2725;
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  Colorectal Cancer and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis and Prevention Strategies

  JOHN K. TRIANTAFILLIDIS, GEORGIOS NASIOULAS and PARIS A. KOSMIDIS

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2727-2737;
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  Individual Patient Based Meta-analysis of Lentinan for Unresectable/Recurrent Gastric Cancer

  KOJI OBA, MICHIYA KOBAYASHI, TAKANORI MATSUI, YASUHIRO KODERA and JUNICHI SAKAMOTO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2739-2745;
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  Gefitinib Plus Paclitaxel after Failure of Gefitinib in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Initially Responding to Gefitinib

  TAKEHITO SHUKUYA, TOSHIAKI TAKAHASHI, AKIHIRO TAMIYA, AKIRA ONO, SATOSHI IGAWA, YUKIKO NAKAMURA, ASUKA TSUYA, HARUYASU MURAKAMI, TATEAKI NAITO, KYOICHI KAIRA, MASAHIRO ENDO and NOBUYUKI YAMAMOTO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2747-2751;
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  DYRK2 Expression May be a Predictive Marker for Chemotherapy in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  SHIN-ICHI YAMASHITA, MASAO CHUJO, TOSHIHIKO MOROGA, KENTARO ANAMI, KEITA TOKUISHI, MICHIYO MIYAWAKI, YOZO KAWANO, SHINSUKE TAKENO, SATOSHI YAMAMOTO and KATSUNOBU KAWAHARA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2753-2757;
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  Efficacy of a Lumbo-peritoneal Shunt for Meningeal Carcinomatosis Refractory to Gefitinib Treatment

  TOSHIO KUBO, NAGIO TAKIGAWA, KATSUYUKI KIURA, AYUMI NISHIDA, NOBUAKI OCHI, HIROMI KASHIHARA, SHIGEKI UMEMURA, AKIKO HISAMOTO and MITSUNE TANIMOTO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2759-2760;
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  Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor with Chondroid Differentiation

  GIUSEPPE PULCINI, VINCENZO VILLANACCI, ELISA ROSSI, FEDERICO GHEZA, EDOARDO CERVI, ALBERTO BRUNO FERRARI, GIANCARLO CERVI and GABRIO BASSOTTI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2761-2765;
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  Dominance of EGFR and Insignificant KRAS Mutations in Prediction of Tyrosine-kinase Therapy for NSCLC Patients Stratified by Tumor Subtype and Smoking Status

  MILOS PESEK, LUCIE BENESOVA, BARBORA BELSANOVA, PETR MUKENSNABL, FRANTISEK BRUHA and MAREK MINARIK

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2767-2773;
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  Docetaxel and S-1 as a First-line Treatment in Patients with Advanced or Recurrent Gastric Cancer

  YASUHIRO TSUTANI, MASAHIRO OHARA, TAKAHISA SUZUKI, KAZUHITO MINAMI, EIJI MIYAHARA, AKIRA KAMEDA and YOSHIHIRO NOSO

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2775-2779;
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  Complete Pelvic Lymphadenectomy in Patients with Clinical Early, Grade I and II Endometrioid Corpus Cancer

  STELIOS FOTIOU, EDWARD L. TRIMBLE, KATERINA PAPAKONSTANTINOU, AGATHA KONDI-PAFITI, THEO PANOSKALTSIS, GEORGE DELICONSTANTINOS and GEORGE CREATSAS

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2781-2785;
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  Prospective Pilot-study of Combined Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation and Application of Bone Cement in Bone Metastases

  DIRK PROSCHEK, ANDREAS KURTH, PETRA PROSCHEK, THOMAS J. VOGL and MARTIN G. MACK

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2787-2792;
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  Brain Metastases from Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Overview and Optimal Management

  KLAUS PIETZNER, GUELTEN OSKAY-OEZCELIK, KHALID EL KHALFAOUI, DIRK BOEHMER, WERNER LICHTENEGGER and JALID SEHOULI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2793-2798;
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  Evidence-based Perioperative Management: Strategic Shifts in Times of Fast Track Surgery

  SASCHA SANTOSH CHOPRA, SVEN CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT, CHRISTINA FOTOPOULOU, JALID SEHOULI and GUIDO SCHUMACHER

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2799-2802;
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  Pros and Cons of Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

  ALAIN G. ZEIMET, DANIEL REIMER, ALICE C. RADL, ALEXANDER REINTHALLER, CHRISTIAN SCHAUER, EDGAR PETRU, NICOLE CONCIN, STEPHAN BRAUN and CHRISTIAN MARTH

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2803-2808;
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  Surgical Outcome and Survival Analysis of Young Patients with Primary Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

  CHRISTINA FOTOPOULOU, KONSTANTINOS SAVVATIS, GUIDO SCHUMACHER, WERNER LICHTENEGGER and JALID SEHOULI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2809-2815;
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  Prognostic Significance of CA-125 in the Management of Patients with Recurrent Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Selected for Secondary Cytoreduction

  SVEN MAHNER, LINN WOELBER, SABINE JUNG, CHRISTINE ZU EULENBURG, MAIKE IHNEN, JOERG SCHWARZ, JALID SEHOULI and FRITZ JAENICKE

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2817-2821;
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  Surgical Management of Multiple Bilateral Fibroadenoma of the Breast: The Ribeiro Technique Modified by Rezai

  O. CAMARA, A. EGBE, I. KOCH, J. HERRMANN, M. GAJDA, P. BALTZER and I.B. RUNNEBAUM

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2823-2826;
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  Venous Coupler for Free-flap Anastomosis

  O. CAMARA, J. HERRMANN, A. EGBE, I. KOCH, M. GAJDA and I.B. RUNNEBAUM

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2827-2830;
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  Pros and Cons for Systemic Therapy in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer*

  GÜLTEN OSKAY-ÖZCELIK and JALID SEHOULI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2831-2836;
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  Controversies in the Management of Ovarian Cancer - Pros and Cons for Lymph Node Dissection in Ovarian Cancer

  OUMAR CAMARA and JALID SEHOULI

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2837-2843;
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  Circulating hTERT DNA in Early Breast Cancer

  ROSA DIVELLA, STEFANIA TOMMASI, ROSANNA LACALAMITA, ANTONELLA DANIELE, INES ABBATE, VITO MICHELE GARRISI, EUFEMIA SAVINO, MARIA COVIELLO, VINCENZA RUBINI, GIOVANNI SIMONE, ANGELO PARADISO and MICHELE QUARANTA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2845-2849;
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  Salvage Chemotherapy with Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine for Breast Cancer Patients Pretreated with Anthracyclines and Taxanes

  ARISTIDES POLYZOS, HELEN GOGAS, CHRISTOS MARKOPOULOS, NIKOLAS TSAVARIS, OTHON PAPADOPOULOS, KOSTAS POLYZOS and ATHANASIOS GIANNOPOULOS

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2851-2856;
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  Impact of Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Gene Polymorphism on Promoter Methylation Status in Gastric Mucosa

  TOMOMITSU TAHARA, TOMOYUKI SHIBATA, TOMIYASU ARISAWA, MASAKATSU NAKAMURA, HIROMI YAMASHITA, DAISUKE YOSHIOKA, MASAAKI OKUBO, NAOKO MARUYAMA, TOSHIAKI KAMANO, YOSHIO KAMIYA, HIROSHI FUJITA, MITSUO NAGASAKA, MASAMI IWATA, KAZUYA TAKAHAMA, MAKOTO WATANABE and ICHIRO HIRATA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2857-2861;
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  Phase II Study of Weekly Paclitaxel as a Second-line Treatment for S-1-refractory Advanced Gastric Cancer

  GORO MATSUDA, CHIKARA KUNISAKI, HIROCHIKA MAKINO, MICHIKO FUKAHORI, JUN KIMURA, TSUTOMU SATO, TAKASHI OSHIMA, YASUHIKO NAGANO, SHOICHI FUII, RYO TAKAGAWA, TAKASHI KOSAKA, HEDETAKA A. ONO, HIROTOSHI AKIYAMA and YASUSHI ICHIKAWA

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2863-2867;
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  Phase I Study of Capecitabine, Carboplatin and Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer

  CHRISTOPHER Y. THOMAS, PAUL READ, GINA PETRONI, JAMES REIBEL and PAUL A. LEVINE

  Anticancer Research July 2009, 29 (7) 2869-2873;