1. The administration of paclitaxel without prophylaxis for the prevention of hypersensitivity reactions: is this a rationale and safe therapeutic strategy?

   • Maurie Markman

   EDITORIAL Pages: 531 - 532

2. Differential expressions of cyclin A and the retinoblastoma gene product in histological subtypes of lung cancer cell lines

   • Eiji Shimizu
   • MeiRong Zhao
   • Saburo Sone

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 533 - 538

3. Diagnostic and prognostic usefulness of N ¹,N ⁸-diacetylspermidine and N ¹,N ¹²-diacetylspermine in urine as novel markers of malignancy

   • Kyoko Hiramatsu
   • Masayuki Sugimoto
   • Masao Kawakita

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 539 - 545

4. Decreased levels of topoisomerase IIα in human renal cell carcinoma lines resistant to etoposide

   • Johan M. W. Scheltema
   • Johan C. Romijn
   • Gerald H. Mickisch

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 546 - 554

5. A prospective study on the prognostic significance of urokinase-type plasminogen activator levels in breast cancer tissue

   • E. Shiba
   • Seung Jin Kim
   • Shin-ichiro Takai

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 555 - 559

6. Leukaemia and lymphoma of the appendix presenting as acute appendicitis or acute abdomen

   • G. Müller
   • J. L. Dargent
   • J. Hustin

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 560 - 564

7. p53 nuclear immunoreactivity as a predictor of response and outcome following chemotherapy for metastatic bladder cancer

   • L. Sengeløv
   • T. Horn
   • K. Steven

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 565 - 570

8. Increased number of cancer cells in bronchial washing fluid detected by combining conventional cytology and high-resolution flow cytometry

   • F. Cicconetti
   • L. Teodori
   • W. Göhde

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 571 - 577

9. 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

   • Maurie Markman

   MEETING REPORT Pages: 578 - 579