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Clinical Studies

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  Factors Predictive of Survival After Stapler Hepatectomy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Multivariate, Single-center Analysis

  KATRIN HOFFMANN, VERENA MÜLLER-BÜTOW, CLEMENS FRANZ, ULF HINZ, THOMAS LONGERICH, MARKUS W. BÜCHLER and PETER SCHEMMER

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 767-776;
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  Diagnosis, Treatment and Survival of 65 Patients with Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors

  OLE GOERTZ, STEFAN LANGER, DANIELA UTHOFF, ANDREJ RING, INGO STRICKER, ANDREA TANNAPFEL and HANS-ULRICH STEINAU

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 777-783;
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  Hodgkin's Variant of Richter Transformation in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia; A Retrospective Study from the Israeli CLL Study Group

  TAMAR TADMOR, LEV SHVIDEL, NETA GOLDSCHMIDT, ROSA RUCHLEMER, RIVA FINEMAN, OSNAT BAIREY, NAOMI RAHIMI-LEVENE, YAIR HERISHANU, MONA YUKLEA, ARIELA ARAD, ARIEL AVIV and AARON POLLIACK

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 785-790;
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  18F-DOPA PET/CT and MRI: Description of 12 Histologically-verified Pheochromocytomas

  SILVIA MAGNALDI, MARIUS E. MAYERHOEFER, ASHKAN KHAMENEH, MATTHIAS SCHUETZ, DOMAGOJ JAVOR, MARKUS MITTERHAUSER, ROBERT DUDCZAK, MARCUS HACKER and GEORGIOS KARANIKAS

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 791-795;
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  Self-estimation or Phototest Measurement of Skin UV Sensitivity and its Association with People's Attitudes Towards Sun Exposure

  MAGNUS FALK

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 797-803;
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  Use of Maximum Standardized Uptake Value on Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron-emission Tomography in Predicting Lymph Node Involvement in Patients with Primary Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  JUN MUTO, YASUHIRO HIDA, KICHIZO KAGA, KAZUTO OHTAKA, SHOZO OKAMOTO, NAGARA TAMAKI, REIKO NAKADA-KUBOTA, SATOSHI HIRANO and YOSHIRO MATSUI

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 805-810;
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  Activation of YAP1 Is Associated with Poor Prognosis and Response to Taxanes in Ovarian Cancer

  WOOJIN JEONG, SANG-BAE KIM, BO HWA SOHN, YUN-YONG PARK, EUN SUNG PARK, SANG CHEOL KIM, SUNG SOO KIM, RANDY L. JOHNSON, MICHAEL BIRRER, DAVID S. L. BOWTELL, GORDON B. MILLS, ANIL SOOD and JU-SEOG LEE

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 811-817;
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  A Case Report of an Ependymoblastoma in the Rectovaginal Space and a Review of the Literature

  ELISABETH SMOLLE, MARIA SMOLLE, FREYDUN RONAGHI, HERMANN ROGATSCH, FARID MOINFAR and JOHANNES HAYBAECK

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 819-827;
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  Health Utilities in Gynecological Oncology and Mastology in Germany

  THOMAS HILDEBRANDT, FALK C. THIEL, PETER A. FASCHING, CHRISTIANE GRAF, MAYADA R. BANI, CHRISTIAN R. LOEHBERG, MICHAEL G. SCHRAUDER, SEBASTIAN M. JUD, CAROLIN C. HACK, MATTHIAS W. BECKMANN and MICHAEL P. LUX

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 829-835;
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  Late Oral Mucosa Alterations After Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer Assessed by Exfoliative Cytology

  PATRIZIA MASSARO, FRANCO CORBELLA, RICCARDO DI LIBERTO, ALESSANDRO PAOLINI, FRANCESCA PASI, CARMINE TINELLI, ANNALISA DE SILVESTRI and ROSANNA NANO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 837-844;
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  Gemcitabine and Capecitabine for Heavily Pre-treated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients – A Phase II and Translational Research Study

  KAREN-LISE G. SPINDLER, NIELS PALLISGAARD, RIKKE F. ANDERSEN, JOHN PLOEN and ANDERS JAKOBSEN

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 845-850;
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  Randomized Phase II Trial of S-1 plus Irinotecan Versus S-1 plus Paclitaxel as First-line Treatment for Advanced Gastric Cancer (OGSG0402)

  NAOTOSHI SUGIMOTO, KAZUMASA FUJITANI, HIROSHI IMAMURA, NORIYA UEDO, SHOHEI IIJIMA, MOTOHIRO IMANO, TOSHIO SHIMOKAWA, YUKINORI KUROKAWA, HIROSHI FURUKAWA and MASAHIRO GOTO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 851-857;
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  Aldehyde Dehydrogenase-1 Predicts Favorable Prognosis in Patients with Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  QINGHUA WU, HUIRONG SHI, RUTH HOLM, XIAORAN LI, CLAES TROPE, JAHN M. NESLAND and ZHENHE SUO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 859-865;
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  HER2-positive Gastric Cancer with Paraaortic Nodal Metastasis Successfully Resected After Chemotherapy with Trastuzumab: A Case Report

  NAOKI IKARI, GO NAKAJIMA, KIYOAKI TANIGUCHI, TSUYOSHI SASAGAWA, KOSUKE NARUMIYA, TAKUJI YAMADA, KENJI KUDO, YOICHI KITAMURA, KAZUHIKO HAYASHI, TOSHIO NISHIKAWA and MASAKAZU YAMAMOTO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 867-872;
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  Treatment of Periocular Basal Cell Carcinoma Using an Advanced Stereotactic Device

  ANTONIO PONTORIERO, GIUSEPPE IATÌ, ALFREDO CONTI, FABIO MINUTOLI, ANTONIO BOTTARI, STEFANO PERGOLIZZI and COSTANTINO DE RENZIS

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 873-875;
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  Development and Validation of a Model Predicting Short Survival (Death Within 30 Days) After Palliative Radiotherapy

  KENT ANGELO, JAN NORUM, ASTRID DALHAUG, ADAM PAWINSKI, GRO AANDAHL, ELLINOR HAUKLAND, KIRSTEN ENGLJÄHRINGER and CARSTEN NIEDER

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 877-885;
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  Tumor Marker Score for Prognostication of Early-stage Squamous Cell Cervical Cancer

  DAN HELLBERG and TIBOR TOT

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 887-892;
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  Molecular Typing of Human Herpesvirus 8 Isolates from Patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma in Hungary

  RITA ÖTVÖS, ATTILA JUHASZ, ERIKA SZALAI, DORINA UJVARI, KATALIN ÖTVÖS, KATALIN SZABO, EVA REMENYIK, LASZLO SZEKELY, LAJOS GERGELY and JOZSEF KONYA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 893-898;
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  Successful Resection of Esophageal Carcinoma with Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery Using Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: Report of Two Cases

  HIROAKI KASASHIMA, NAOSHI KUBO, MASAICHI OHIRA, KATSUNOBU SAKURAI, TAKAHIRO TOYOKAWA, HIROAKI TANAKA, KAZUYA MUGURUMA, MASATSUNE SHIBUTANI, SADAAKI YAMAZOE, KENJIRO KIMURA, HISASHI NAGAHARA, RYOSUKE AMANO, HIROSHI OHTANI, MASAKAZU YASHIRO, KIYOSHI MAEDA and KOSEI HIRAKAWA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 899-904;
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  Complete Pathological Response in Advanced Extra-gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor After Imatinib Mesylate Therapy: A Case Report

  MATTIA REDITI, ELISA PELLEGRINI, ELENA MOLINARA, CARMINE CERULLO, CARLA FONTE, ALICE LUNGHI, ALICE IORI and BRUNO NERI

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 905-907;
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  L-[3-¹⁸F]-α-Methyltyrosine Accumulation as a Definitive Chemoradiotherapy Response Predictor in Patients with Esophageal Cancer

  MAKOTO SOHDA, HIROAKI HONJYO, KEIGO HARA, DAIGO OZAWA, SHIGEMASA SUZUKI, NARITAKA TANAKA, AKIHIKO SANO, MAKOTO SAKAI, TAKEHIKO YOKOBORI, TAKANORI INOSE, TATSUYA MIYAZAKI, HITOSHI OJIMA, TETSUYA HIGUCHI, YOSHITO TSUSHIMA and HIROYUKI KUWANO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 909-913;
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  Is Gastric Tube Reconstruction the Optimal Surgical Procedure for Siewert Type II Esophagogastric Junction Carcinoma?

  MINORU FUKUCHI, ERITO MOCHIKI, OKIHIDE SUZUKI, TORU ISHIGURO, JUN SOBAJIMA, KANA SAITO, HIROSHI NAITOH, YOUICHI KUMAGAI, HIROYUKI BABA, KEIICHIRO ISHIBASHI and HIDEYUKI ISHIDA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 915-919;
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  External Validation of TNM-C Score in Three Community Hospital Cohorts for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

  TAKAYUKI NAKAYAMA, KAZUTAKA SAITO, JUNICHIRO ISHIOKA, KEIZO KAWANO, SHINJI MORIMOTO, YOH MATSUOKA, TETSUO OKUNO, SHINGO MORIYAMA, HIDEKI TAKESHITA, AKIRA NORO, YASUHISA FUJII and KAZUNORI KIHARA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 921-926;
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  Split-dose Cisplatin and Vinorelbine as Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Completely Resected Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  FUMIHIKO HIRAI, TAKASHI SETO, MOTOTSUGU SHIMOKAWA, EIKO INAMASU, RYO TOYOZAWA, GOUJI TOYOKAWA, TSUKIHISA YOSHIDA, YOSHIMASA SHIRAISHI, TOMOYOSHI TAKENAKA, MASAFUMI YAMAGUCHI, MITSUHIRO TAKENOYAMA and YUKITO ICHINOSE

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 927-931;
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  Role of High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein in the Differentiation of Benign and Malignant Soft Tissue Tumors

  TOMOKI NAKAMURA, AKIHIKO MATSUMINE, TAKAHIRO IINO, TAKAO MATSUBARA, KUNIHIRO ASANUMA, ATSUMASA UCHIDA and AKIHIRO SUDO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 933-936;
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  PSA Nadir and Outcome in 100 Patients with pT3b Prostate Cancer

  PIETRO PEPE, GIUSEPPINA IMPROTA, FILIPPO FRAGGETTA, CARMELA EMMANUELE, VITTORIO SIMEON, GIUSEPPE DIBENEDETTO, MAURIZIO COLECCHIA and FRANCESCO ARAGONA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 937-941;
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  User Rate of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) of Patients Visiting a Counseling Facility for CAM of a German Comprehensive Cancer Center

  JUTTA HUEBNER, OLIVER MICKE, RALPH MUECKE, JENS BUENTZEL, FRANZ JOSEF PROTT, ULRICH KLEEBERG, BIANCA SENF, KARSTEN MUENSTEDT and On behalf of PRIO (Working Group Prevention and Integrative Oncology of the German Cancer Society)

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 943-948;
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  Efficacy and Toxicity of Bevacizumab on Combination with Chemotherapy in Different Lines of Treatment for Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma

  IGOR KISS, ZBYNEK BORTLICEK, BOHUSLAV MELICHAR, ALEXANDR POPRACH, JANA HALAMKOVA, ROSTISLAV VYZULA, LADISLAV DUSEK and TOMAS BUCHLER

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 949-954;
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  High UBCH10 Protein Expression as a Marker of Poor Prognosis in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  AKIRA MATSUMOTO, YOSHIO ISHIBASHI, MITSUYOSHI URASHIMA, NOBUO OMURA, KOJI NAKADA, KATSUNORI NISHIKAWA, ATSUO SHIDA, KOJI TAKADA, HIDEYUKI KASHIWAGI and KATSUHIKO YANAGA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 955-961;
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  Symptomatic Intraosseous Lipoma in the Calcaneus

  KEIICHI MURAMATSU, YASUHIRO TOMINAGA, TAKAHIRO HASHIMOTO and TOSHIHIKO TAGUCHI

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 963-966;
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  Electrochemotherapy and Its Controversial Results in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

  VERONICA SECCIA, LUCA MUSCATELLO, IACOPO DALLAN, ARISA BAJRAKTARI, TOMMASO BRIGANTI, STEFANO URSINO, LUCA GALLI, ALFREDO FALCONE and STEFANO SELLARI-FRANCESCHINI

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 967-972;
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  Metabolic Treatment of Cancer: Intermediate Results of a Prospective Case Series

  LAURENT SCHWARTZ, LUDIVINE BUHLER, PHILIPPE ICARD, HUBERT LINCET and JEAN-MARC STEYAERT

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 973-980;
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  Postoperative Bleeding After Surgery in Patients with Lung Cancer

  HIDETAKA URAMOTO, HIDEHIKO SHIMOKAWA and FUMIHIRO TANAKA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 981-984;
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  The Role of Lymphadenectomy in Uterine Sarcoma: A Clinical Practical Approach Based on Retrospective Analysis

  FRIEDERIKE HOELLEN, ANIKA WALDMANN, STEPHANIE BENTHIN, LARS HANKER, ACHIM RODY and DOROTHEA FISCHER

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 985-993;
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  The Role of Activation-induced Cytidine Deaminase Expression in Gastric Adenocarcinoma

  BAT-ERDENE BATSAIKHAN, NOBUHIRO KURITA, TAKASHI IWATA, HIROHIKO SATO, KOZO YOSHIKAWA, CHIE TAKASU, HIDEYA KASHIHARA, NORIKO MATSUMOTO, HIROKI ISHIBASHI and MITSUO SHIMADA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 995-1000;
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  A Long-term Follow-up Study of 91 Cases with Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumors

  SEUNG-HYUK SHIM, SUN JOO LEE, DAE-YEON KIM, JIN KIM, SOO-NYUNG KIM, SOON-BEOM KANG, JONG-HYEOK KIM, YONG-MAN KIM, YOUNG-TAK KIM and JOO-HYUN NAM

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1001-1010;
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  Management of Painful Bone Metastases: Our Experience According to Scientific Evidence on Palliative Radiotherapy

  ROSSELLA DI FRANCO, SARA FALIVENE, VINCENZO RAVO, MASSIMO MAMMUCARI, ENNIO SARLI, STELLA BAFFINI, GIAMPAOLO DE PALMA, ALFONSINA PEPE, MARIANNA TRAETTINO, MATTEO MUTO, SALVATORE CAPPABIANCA and PAOLO MUTO

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1011-1014;
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  Active Anticancer Treatment During the Final Month of Life in Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  CARSTEN NIEDER, TERJE TOLLÅLI, ASTRID DALHAUG, ELLINOR HAUKLAND, GRO AANDAHL, ADAM PAWINSKI and JAN NORUM

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1015-1020;
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  Prevalence and Expression of Human Papillomavirus in 53 Patients with Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  ELPIDA TSIMPLAKI, ELENA ARGYRI, DIMITRA XESFYNGI, DIMITRA DASKALOPOULOU, DIMITRIOS J. STRAVOPODIS and EFSTATHIA PANOTOPOULOU

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1021-1025;
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  Treatment of Collecting Duct Carcinoma: Current Status and Future Perspectives

  GIUSEPPE PROCOPIO, ISABELLA TESTA, ROBERTO IACOVELLI, PAOLO GRASSI, ELENA VERZONI, ENRICO GARANZINI, MAURIZIO COLECCHIA, TULLIO TORELLI and FILIPPO DE BRAUD

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1027-1030;
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  Does a Venous Tumor Thrombus Exclude Renal Transitional Cell Carcinoma? Implications for Neo-Adjuvant Treatment Strategies

  JOHANNES HUBER, DOGU TEBER, GENCAY HATIBOGLU, VALENTIN POPENECIU, HILDEGARD JAKOBI, PETER HALLSCHEIDT, SASCHA PAHERNIK and MARKUS HOHENFELLNER

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1031-1035;
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  Prognostic Factor Analysis in Core-Binding Factor-positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia

  HYUN AE JUNG, CHI HOON MAENG, SILVIA PARK, SEOK JIN KIM, KIHYUN KIM, JUN HO JANG and CHUL WON JUNG

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1037-1045;
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  Clinical Characteristics of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients with Prolonged Survival in the Era of Anti-angiogenic Targeted-therapy

  LI-CHUN LU, YU-YUN SHAO, SOA-YU CHAN, CHIH-HUNG HSU and ANN-LII CHENG

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1047-1052;
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  The Feasibility of a Short Bevacizumab Infusion in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

  TETSUJI TERAZAWA, HITOSHI NISHITANI, KEN KATO, HIRONOBU HASHIMOTO, KOHEI AKIYOSHI, SATORU IWASA, TAKAKO EGUCHI NAKAJIMA, TETSUYA HAMAGUCHI, YASUHIDE YAMADA and YASUHIRO SHIMADA

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1053-1056;
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  Large Synovial Osteochondromatosis Arising from the Interphalangeal Joint of the Thumb: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

  KEIICHI MURAMATSU, TAKAHIRO HASHIMOTO, YASUHIRO TOMINAGA and TOSHIHIKO TAGUCHI

  Anticancer Research February 2014, 34 (2) 1057-1060;