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This is a selection of articles from the January 2007 archive. Click here for this month's Cancer & Oncology headlines.
Characterization of antibodies in single-chain format against the E7 oncoprotein of the Human papillomavirus type 16 and their improvement by mutagenesis
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Source: BMC Cancer - January 31, 2007 Authors: Maria Gabriella Dona, Colomba Giorgi and Luisa Accardi Source Type: journals
HPV16-E6 mRNA is superior to cytokeratin 19 mRNA as a molecular marker for the detection of disseminated tumour cells in sentinel lymph nodes of patients with cervical cancer by quantitative reverse-transcription PCR
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Source: International Journal of Cancer - January 31, 2007 Authors: Norman Häfner, Mieczyslaw Gajda, Christopher Altgassen, Hermann Hertel, Christiane Greinke, Peter Hillemanns, Achim Schneider, Matthias Dürst Source Type: journals
Positive and negative consequences with regard to cancer during adolescence. Experiences two years after diagnosis
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Source: Psycho-Oncology - January 31, 2007 Authors: E Mattsson, A Ringnér, G Ljungman, L von Essen Source Type: journals
Novel Ames Lab composite may replace depleted uranium
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Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - January 31, 2007 Source Type: journals
Compressing drug development timelines in oncology using phase '0' trials
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Source: Nature Reviews Cancer - January 30, 2007 Authors: Shivaani KummarRobert KindersLarry RubinsteinRalph E. ParchmentAnthony J. MurgoJerry CollinsOxana PickeralJennifer LowSeth M. SteinbergMartin GutierrezSherry YangLee HelmanRobert WiltroutJoseph E. TomaszewskiJames H. Doroshow Source Type: journals
Can Differences in Bowel Function After Surgery for Rectal Cancer Be Identified by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Instrument?
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Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology - January 30, 2007 Source Type: journals
Expression of EphB4 and HIF-1α in lung cancer and its clinical significance
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Source: The Chinese-German Journal of Clinical Oncology - January 30, 2007 Tags: The Chinese-German Journal of Clinical Oncology Source Type: journals
[Correspondence] Quality of Pathology Reporting Impacts on Lymph Node Yield in Colon Cancer
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Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology - January 30, 2007 Authors: Rieger, Barnett, Moore, Ananda, Croxford, Johns, Gibbs Source Type: journals
[Correspondence] Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy in Breast Cancer: A Revolutionary Breakthrough or a Long Way to Go?
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Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology - January 30, 2007 Authors: Munshi, Budrukkar Source Type: journals
Patterns of mandibular invasion in oral squamous cell carcinoma of the mandibular region
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Source: World Journal of Surgical Oncology - January 30, 2007 Authors: Manoj Pandey, Latha P Rao, Shaima R Das, Anitha Mathews, Elizabeth M Chako and B R Naik Source Type: journals
Does erlotinib improve symptoms in patients with lung cancer?
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Source: Nature Clinical Practice Oncology - January 30, 2007 Authors: David M JackmanPasi A Jänne Tags: Practice Point Source Type: journals
Molecular motors and brakes work together in cells
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Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - January 30, 2007 Source Type: journals
Greater After-Care Monitoring And Screening Recommended For Men With Breast Cancer
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Source: Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today - January 29, 2007 Source Type: journals
Chemoprotection Effect of Multidrug Resistance 1 (MDR1) Gene Transfer to Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells and Engrafted in Mice with Cancer Allows Intensified Chemotherapy
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Source: Cancer Investigation - January 29, 2007 Authors: Guo, ChunbaoJin, Xianqing Source Type: journals
Cancer and Its Management
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Source: European Journal of Cancer Care - January 29, 2007 Tags: Book reviews Source Type: journals
New Developments From AnorMED Described
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Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer - January 29, 2007 Source Type: journals
Institute Of Basic Medical Science Describes Research In Myeloma Cell Biology
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Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer - January 29, 2007 Source Type: journals
Reports Summarize Prostate Cancer Study Results From University Of Miami
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Source: Cancercompass News: Prostate Cancer - January 29, 2007 Source Type: journals
American Lung Association Says Radon A Health Risk In Many Midwestern Homes
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Source: Cancercompass News: Other Cancer - January 29, 2007 Source Type: journals
Role for Intraoperative Margin Assessment in Patients Undergoing Breast-Conserving Surgery
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Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology - January 27, 2007 Source Type: journals
Isolation of a human gallbladder cancer cell clone with high invasive phenotype in vitro and metastatic potential in orthotopic model and inhibition of its invasiveness by heparanase antisense oligodeoxynucleotides
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Source: Clinical and Experimental Metastasis - January 27, 2007 Source Type: journals
Has the quality of health-related quality of life reporting in cancer clinical trials improved over time? Towards bridging the gap with clinical decision making.
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Source: Ann Oncol - January 27, 2007 Authors: Efficace F, Osoba D, Gotay C, Sprangers M, Coens C, Bottomley A Source Type: journals
Advances in the Management of Glioblastoma Multiforme: An Expert Interview With Dr. Renato La Rocca From 2006 SNO
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Source: Clinical Trials And Noteworthy Treatments For Brain Tumors - January 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Tumor specific cytotoxicity of glucosylceramide
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Source: Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology - January 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Vaticanol C, a novel resveratrol tetramer, reduces lymph node and lung metastases of mouse mammary carcinoma carrying p53 mutation
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Source: Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology - January 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Influence of ketoconazole on the fecal and urinary disposition of docetaxel
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Source: Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology - January 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Mitochondrial DNA sequence variants in epithelial ovarian tumor subtypes and stages
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Source: Journal of Carcinogenesis - January 26, 2007 Authors: Felix O Aikhionbare, Sharifeh Mehrabi, K Kumaresan, Mojgan Zavareh, Moshood Olatinwo, Kunle Odunsi and Edward Partridge Source Type: journals
Cancer as an Evolutionary and Ecological Process
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Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - January 25, 2007 Source Type: journals
Anaplastic mixed gliomas and anaplastic oligodendroglioma in children: results from the CCG 945 experience
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Source: Journal of Neuro-Oncology - January 25, 2007 Source Type: journals
Successful treatment of cancer-associated retinopathy with alemtuzumab
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Source: Journal of Neuro-Oncology - January 25, 2007 Source Type: journals
Ikonisys Receives FDA Clearance For Automated Bladder Cancer Test
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Source: Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today - January 25, 2007 Source Type: journals
A decade of discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2: Are we turning the tide against hereditary breast cancers?
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Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics - January 25, 2007 Authors: Sarin Rajiv Source Type: journals
Advances in radiation oncology: Time to move ahead
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Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics - January 25, 2007 Authors: Rath GK, Sharma DN, Bahl Amit Source Type: journals
Adult paratesticular malignant fibrous histiocytoma treated with surgery, systemic chemotherapy and postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy
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Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics - January 25, 2007 Authors: Schmitz Matthew Source Type: journals
Stem cells cultured from human bone marrow behave like those derived from brain tissue
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Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - January 25, 2007 Source Type: journals
Ventana Announces FDA Approval Of Antibody To Assess Whether Breast Cancer Patients Should Be Treated With Herceptin
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Source: Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today - January 24, 2007 Source Type: journals
Harold Burstein, MD, PhD - Biologic Targeted Therapies for Breast Cancer: Recent Advances and Practical Recommendations
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Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Oncology - January 24, 2007 Authors: PeerView Press Tags: Science Source Type: journals
Tamoxifen Discontinuation Rates Surprisingly High In Clinical Practice
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Source: Breast Cancer News From Medical News Today - January 24, 2007 Source Type: journals
Distinct reconstitution of neutrophil functions after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
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Source: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology - January 24, 2007 Source Type: journals
Long-term outcome of patients with intracranial germinoma
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Source: Journal of Neuro-Oncology - January 24, 2007 Source Type: journals
Publication of Early Research on Callisto Pharmaceutical`s Degrasyn Drug Class Suggests Potential to Treat Brain Tumors
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Source: Clinical Trials And Noteworthy Treatments For Brain Tumors - January 23, 2007 Source Type: journals
Increased expression of nucleophosmin/B23 in hepatocellular carcinoma and correlation with clinicopathological parameters
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Source: British Journal of Cancer AOP - January 23, 2007 Authors: J-P YunJ MiaoG G ChenQ-H TianC-Q ZhangJ XiangJ FuP B S Lai Source Type: journals
Innate immune recognition and suppression of tumors.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Natural killer cells and cancer.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Rho GTPases in transformation and metastasis.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
MHC antigens and tumor escape from immune surveillance.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
HAMLET kills tumor cells by an apoptosis-like mechanism--cellular, molecular, and therapeutic aspects.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
The role of selection in progressive neoplastic transformation.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Telomerase inhibitors: a new option for chemotherapy.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Role of glycogen synthase kinase-3 in cancer: regulation by Wnts and other signaling pathways.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Advances in immunotherapy for prostate cancer.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Inhibitors of the HSP90 molecular chaperone: current status.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Multiparameter analyses of cell cycle regulatory proteins in human breast cancer: a key to definition of separate pathways in tumorigenesis.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
The T-cell response in patients with cancer.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Order, disorder, death: lessons from a superorganism.
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Source: Advances in Cancer Research - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Medullary thyroid cancer: therapeutic targets and molecular markers.
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Source: Current Opinion in Oncology - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
RNA interference technologies and their use in cancer research.
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Source: Current Opinion in Oncology - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Risk Factors of Postoperative Respiratory Infections in Lung Cancer Surgery.
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Source: Journal of Thoracic Oncology - January 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Molecular pathways linking the pheochromocytoma susceptibility genes - response
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Source: Pediatric Blood and Cancer - January 22, 2007 Authors: Alberto Cascon, Mercedes Robledo, Jaume Mora Source Type: journals
c-Cbl-facilitated cytoskeletal effects in v-Abl-transformed fibroblasts are regulated by membrane association of c-Cbl
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Source: Oncogene - January 22, 2007 Authors: G SwaminathanE A FeshchenkoA Y Tsygankov Source Type: journals
Iodine-131-metaiodobenzylguanidine therapy with reduced-intensity allogeneic stem cell transplantation in recurrent neuroblastoma
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Source: Pediatric Blood and Cancer - January 22, 2007 Authors: Hiroka Takahashi, Atsushi Manabe, Chiaki Aoyama, Takahiro Kamiya, Itaru Kato, Ayako Takusagawa, Chitose Ogawa, Miwa Ozawa, Ryota Hosoya, Kunihiko Yokoyama Source Type: journals
Interplay between the levels of estrogen and estrogen receptor controls the level of the granzyme inhibitor, proteinase inhibitor 9 and susceptibility to immune surveillance by natural killer cells
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Source: Oncogene - January 22, 2007 Authors: X JiangS J EllisonE T AlaridD J Shapiro Source Type: journals
Dmp1 and tumor suppression
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Source: Oncogene - January 22, 2007 Authors: K InoueA MallakinD P Frazier Source Type: journals
Reg IV is a serum biomarker for gastric cancer patients and predicts response to 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy
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Source: Oncogene - January 22, 2007 Authors: Y MitaniN OueS MatsumuraK YoshidaT NoguchiM ItoS TanakaH KuniyasuN KamataW Yasui Source Type: journals
The Biology of Ewing sarcoma.
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Source: Cancer Letters - January 22, 2007 Authors: Riggi N, Stamenkovic I Tags: Cancer Lett Source Type: journals
Genetic Flaw Starts Biochemical Domino Effect
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Source: Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today - January 21, 2007 Source Type: journals
Pfizer's Sutent(reg) Is Granted Full Marketing Authorization For First-Line Use In Advanced Kidney Cancer In The EU
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Source: Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today - January 21, 2007 Source Type: journals
Recent Reports From Fibrogen Provided An Update
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Source: Cancercompass News: Pancreatic Cancer - January 20, 2007 Source Type: journals
Efficacy of the BioXtra dry mouth care system in the treatment of radiotherapy-induced xerostomia
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Source: Supportive Care in Cancer - January 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
First Patients In India Receive Innovative Treatment For Primary Liver Cancer
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Source: Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today - January 18, 2007 Source Type: journals
Activation of Integrin-Linked Kinase Is a Critical Prosurvival Pathway Induced in Leukemic Cells by Bone Marrow-Derived Stromal Cells
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Source: Cancer Research - January 18, 2007 Authors: Tabe, Y., Jin, L., Tsutsumi-Ishii, Y., Xu, Y., McQueen, T., Priebe, W., Mills, G. B., Ohsaka, A., Nagaoka, I., Andreeff, M., Konopleva, M. Source Type: journals
Inhibition of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase in Dendritic Cells by Stereoisomers of 1-Methyl-Tryptophan Correlates with Antitumor Responses