1. Message from the Editor-in-Chief

   • Masahiro Hiraoka

   EDITORIAL Pages: 1 - 1

2. Significance of hypoxia in cervical cancer

   • Kimitoshi Kohno

   EDITORIAL Pages: 2 - 2

3. Cancer pharmacogenomics: progress and obstacles toward the goal

   • Masahiko Nishiyama

   INTRODUCTION TO REVIEW ARTICLES Pages: 3 - 4

4. Cancer pharmacogenomics: international trends

   • Yasuko Yamayoshi
   • Emiko Iida
   • Yusuke Tanigawara

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 5 - 13

5. Cancer pharmacogenomics: achievements in basic research

   • Miki Nakajima
   • Tsuyoshi Yokoi

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 14 - 19

6. Squamous cell carcinoma of the bilharzial and non-bilharzial urinary bladder: a review of etiological features, natural history, and management

   • Medhat El-Sebaie
   • Mohamed Saad Zaghloul
   • Alaa Mokhtar

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 20 - 25

7. Construction of a remote radiotherapy planning system

   • Yoshihiro Ogawa
   • Kenji Nemoto
   • Shogo Yamada

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 26 - 29

8. Clinicopathological features of prostate cancer in Japanese men diagnosed on repeat transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy

   • Hideaki Miyake
   • Iori Sakai
   • Hiroshi Eto

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 30 - 34

9. Hypoxia correlates with angiogenesis in cervical cancers

   • Hayahito Tanaka
   • Yoshiko Yasuda
   • Yukio Nakamura

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 35 - 39

10. A phase I/II study of S-1 plus cisplatin in patients with advanced gastric cancer: 2-week S-1 administration regimen

    • Yasuhiro Sato
    • Hitoshi Kondo
    • Yoshiro Niitsu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 40 - 44

11. Health-related quality of life and treatment outcomes for men with prostate cancer treated by combined external-beam radiotherapy and hormone therapy

    • Katsuyoshi Hashine
    • Kouji Azuma
    • Yoshiteru Sumiyoshi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 45 - 50

12. A Japanese phase I study of continuous oral capecitabine in patients with malignant solid tumors

    • Toshiaki Saeki
    • Shigemitsu Takashima
    • Tetsuo Taguchi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 51 - 57

13. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-producing malignant pleural mesothelioma with the expression of other cytokines

    • Akihiro Yoshimoto
    • Kazuo Kasahara
    • Shinji Nakao

    CASE REPORT Pages: 58 - 62

14. Long-term survival following concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer with concomitant brain metastases only

    • Shingo Harita
    • Akifumi Mizuta
    • Takeshi Kikuchi

    CASE REPORT Pages: 63 - 68

15. The benefit of chemotherapy in a patient with multiple brain metastases and meningitis carcinomatosa from ovarian cancer

    • Ayako Watanabe
    • Muneaki Shimada
    • Naoki Terakawa

    CASE REPORT Pages: 69 - 71