1. Extended Lymph Node Dissection in Gastric Cancer: If a Benefit Exists, Can It Ever Be Proven?

   • Martin J. Heslin

   Editorial Pages: 715 - 716

2. Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened Nicholas

   • J. Petrelli

   Editorial Pages: 717 - 718

3. Distal Gastric Cancer and Extensive Surgery: A New Evaluation Method Based on the Study of the Status of Residual Lymph Nodes After Limited Surgery

   • Dimitrios H. Roukos
   • Paraskevi Paraschou
   • Matthias Lorenz

   Editorial Pages: 719 - 726

4. Specific c-K-ras Gene Mutations as a Tumor-Response Marker in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Treated With Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy

   • Pedro Luna-Pérez
   • Julia Segura
   • Angelina Quintero

   Editorial Pages: 727 - 731

5. Preoperative Staging of Rectal Cancer With MRI: Accuracy and Clinical Usefulness

   • Nam Kyu Kim
   • Myeong Jin Kim
   • Jin Sik Min

   Editorial Pages: 732 - 737

6. Prognostic Indicators in Melanoma of the Vulva

   • Francesco Raspagliesi
   • Antonino Ditto
   • Giuseppe De Palo

   Editorial Pages: 738 - 742

7. A Novel Approach for the Identification of Unique Tumor Vasculature Binding Peptides Using an E. coli Peptide Display Library

   • Charles K. Brown
   • Ruth A. Modzelewski
   • Michael K. K. Wong

   Editorial Pages: 743 - 749

8. Prognostic Significance of Fas and Fas Ligand System-Associated Apoptosis in Gastric Cancer

   • Satoshi Ohno
   • Mitsuo Tachibana
   • Naofumi Nagasue

   Editorial Pages: 750 - 757

9. Esophageal Cancer With Cirrhosis of the Liver: Results of Esophagectomy in 18 Consecutive Patients

   • Mitsuo Tachibana
   • Tsukasa Kotoh
   • Naofumi Nagasue

   Editorial Pages: 758 - 763

10. Comparison of Surgical Outcomes for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With Hepatitis B Versus Hepatitis C: A Western Experience

    • Sasan Roayaie
    • Menahem Ben Haim
    • Myron E. Schwartz

    Editorial Pages: 764 - 770

11. Dendritic Cells Armed With Anti-CD3 mAbs Reduce Pulmonary Metastases, Prolong Survival, and Engender Antitumor Effector Cells Demonstrable by Adoptive Transfer

    • Mary A. Maluccio
    • Jyosthna Rao
    • Manikkam Suthanthiran

    Editorial Pages: 771 - 776

12. An Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction Method for the Determination of the D85Y Polymorphism in the Human UDPGlucuronosyltransferase 2B15 Gene in a Case-Control Study of Prostate Cancer

    • Stewart L. MacLeod
    • Susan Nowell
    • Nicholas P. Lang

    Editorial Pages: 777 - 782

13. The Role of E-Cadherin-Catenin Complex: More Than an Intercellular Glue?

    • Kevin J. Harington
    • Konstantinos N. Syrigos

    Editorial Pages: 783 - 788

14. Letter to the Editor

    • J. Russell Hoverman

    Editorial Pages: 789 - 789

15. Letter to the Editor

    • Roger F. Uren
    • Robert Howman-Giles
    • John F. Thompson

    Editorial Pages: 790 - 790