1. Clinicopathological features, vitamin D serological levels and prognosis in cutaneous melanoma of shield-sites: an update

   • Giovanni Paolino
   • Elisa Moliterni
   • Stefano Calvieri

   Original Paper 17 December 2014 Article: 451

   

2. Role of osteopontin in osteosarcoma

   • Yu-sheng Li
   • Zhen-han Deng
   • Guang-hua Lei

   Review Article 17 December 2014 Article: 449

   

3. The unfolded protein response potentiates epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of gastric cancer cells under severe hypoxic conditions

   • Xinsheng Shen
   • Yange Xue
   • Xiefu Zhang

   Original Paper 14 December 2014 Article: 447

   

4. Predictive value of F-18 FDG PET/CT quantization parameters in diffuse large B cell lymphoma: a meta-analysis with 702 participants

   • Mixue Xie
   • Kefei Wu
   • Yanhui Xie

   Review Article 16 December 2014 Article: 446

   

5. Anorectal malignant melanoma: retrospective analysis of management and outcome in a single Portuguese Institution

   • Isália Miguel
   • João Freire
   • António Moreira

   Short Communication 13 December 2014 Article: 445

   

6. Metronomic oral cyclophosphamide plus prednisone in docetaxel-pretreated patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer

   • Romualdo Barroso-Sousa
   • Leonardo Gomes da Fonseca
   • Carlos Dzik

   Original Paper 18 December 2014 Article: 443

   

7. Impact of bevacizumab on survival outcomes in primary tumor resected metastatic colorectal cancer

   • Hilmi Kodaz
   • Bulent Erdogan
   • Irfan Cicin

   Original Paper 12 December 2014 Article: 441

   

8. The role of BRAF mutation in patients with high-risk malignant melanoma treated with high-dose adjuvant interferon therapy

   • Tulay Akman
   • Ilhan Oztop
   • Hulya Ellidokuz

   Original Paper 14 December 2014 Article: 440

   

9. Overexpression of cyclin D1 in meningioma is associated with malignancy grade and causes abnormalities in apoptosis, invasion and cell cycle progression

   • Gang Cheng
   • Leiming Zhang
   • Jianning Zhang

   Original Paper 13 December 2014 Article: 439

   

10. Vitamin and multiple-vitamin supplement intake and incidence of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of cohort studies

    • Yan Liu
    • Qiuyan Yu
    • Ke Li

    Original Paper 10 December 2014 Article: 434

    

11. Prognostic evaluation of Nanog, Oct4, Sox2, PCNA, Ki67 and E-cadherin expression in gastric cancer

    • Ning Li
    • Wenying Deng
    • Suxia Luo

    Original Paper 10 December 2014 Article: 433

    

12. Utility and cost-effectiveness of screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in a resource-limited setting

    • Mohamed Eltabbakh
    • Hassan Zaghla
    • Imam Waked

    Original Paper 13 December 2014 Article: 432

13. Insulin-like growth factor pathway aberrations and gastric cancer; evaluation of prognostic significance and assessment of therapeutic potentials

    • Omar Abdel-Rahman

    Review Article 09 December 2014 Article: 431

    

14. Circulating tumor cells in sarcomas: a brief review

    • Le Chang
    • Greg Asatrian
    • Aaron W. James

    Review Article 10 December 2014 Article: 430

15. Maintenance therapy following first-line chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer: toxicity and efficacy—single-institution experience

    • Mikahil Fedyanin
    • Alexey Tryakin
    • Sergei Tjulandin

    Original Paper 10 December 2014 Article: 429

    

16. The downregulation of miR-200c/141 promotes ZEB1/2 expression and gastric cancer progression

    • Xinliang Zhou
    • Yudong Wang
    • Wei Liu

    Original Paper 12 December 2014 Article: 428

    

17. Gene expression profile analysis identifies metastasis and chemoresistance-associated genes in epithelial ovarian carcinoma cells

    • Liancheng Zhu
    • Zhenhua Hu
    • Bei Lin

    Original Paper Open access 11 December 2014 Article: 426

    

18. Molecular spectrum of c-KIT and PDGFRA gene mutations in gastro intestinal stromal tumor: determination of frequency, distribution pattern and identification of novel mutations in Indian patients

    • Firoz Ahmad
    • Purnima Lad
    • Bibhu Ranjan Das

    Original Paper 07 December 2014 Article: 424

    

19. Effect of metabolic syndrome and its components on recurrence and survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

    • Ying-Sheng Wen
    • Xue-wen Zhang
    • Lan-Jun Zhang

    Original Paper 05 December 2014 Article: 423

    

20. Metabolic syndrome in hematologic malignancies survivors: a meta-analysis

    • Chunyan Li
    • Pengcheng Liu
    • Shen Qu

    Original Paper 04 December 2014 Article: 422

    

21. Differences in the recurrence pattern after neoadjuvant chemotherapy compared to surgery alone in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

    • Takuya Koie
    • Chikara Ohyama
    • Yuki Tobisawa

    Original Paper 04 December 2014 Article: 421

    

22. EGFR-TKIs combined with chemotherapy versus EGFR-TKIs single agent as first-line treatment for molecularly selected patients with non-small cell lung cancer

    • Zhixin Sheng
    • Yanxia Zhang

    Original Paper 10 December 2014 Article: 420

    

23. Hypoxia promotes 786-O cells invasiveness and resistance to sorafenib via HIF-2α/COX-2

    • Chun-Xiong Zhao
    • Chun-Li Luo
    • Xiao-Hou Wu

    Original Paper 07 December 2014 Article: 419

    

24. MMI-166, a selective matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor, promotes apoptosis in human pancreatic cancer

    • Chong-chong Gao
    • Ben-gang Gong
    • Fei Li

    Original Paper 04 December 2014 Article: 418

    

25. Postoperative adjuvant therapy for resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis of 426 cases

    • Hailu Chen
    • Zhiyong Wu
    • Enmin Li

    Original Paper 06 December 2014 Article: 417

    

26. Expression of caspase-3 predicts prognosis in advanced noncardia gastric cancer

    • Sousana Amptoulach
    • Andreas C. Lazaris
    • Nikolaos Tsavaris

    Original Paper 05 December 2014 Article: 416

    

27. Erratum to: Clinical research on the treatment effects of radioactive ¹²⁵I seeds interstitial brachytherapy on children with primary orbital rhabdomyosarcoma

    • Xin Ge
    • Jianmin Ma
    • Jitong Shi

    Erratum 21 December 2014 Article: 415

28. Peroxiredoxin 2 is involved in vasculogenic mimicry formation by targeting VEGFR2 activation in colorectal cancer

    • Shouru Zhang
    • Zhongxue Fu
    • Kunli Du

    Original Paper 04 December 2014 Article: 414

    

29. Evaluation of urinary miRNA-96 as a potential biomarker for bladder cancer diagnosis

    • Sanaa Eissa
    • Haidy Habib
    • Yossif Kotb

    Original Paper 16 December 2014 Article: 413

    

30. B-Myb regulates snail expression to promote epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and invasion of breast cancer cell

    • Deyou Tao
    • Yihong Pan
    • Feilin Cao

    Original Paper 11 December 2014 Article: 412

    

31. CrkL regulates SDF-1-induced breast cancer biology through balancing Erk1/2 and PI3K/Akt pathways

    • Xin Lian
    • Yu Jiao
    • Qingyuan Zhang

    Original Paper 05 December 2014 Article: 411

    

32. Effect of Endostar combined with angiopoietin-2 inhibitor on malignant pleural effusion in mice

    • Shen-Cun Fang
    • Hai-Tao Zhang
    • Ying-Ming Zhang

    Original Paper 06 December 2014 Article: 410

    

33. Texosome-anchored superantigen triggers apoptosis in original ovarian cancer cells

    • Hamideh Mahmoodzadeh Hosseini
    • Jafar Soleimanirad
    • Abbas Ali Imani Fooladi

    Original Paper 02 December 2014 Article: 409

    

34. MEK/ERK pathway is positively involved in hypoxia-induced vasculogenic mimicry formation in hepatocellular carcinoma which is regulated negatively by protein kinase A

    • Bin Huang
    • Enhua Xiao
    • Manping Huang

    Original Paper 09 December 2014 Article: 408

    

35. Correlation of apolipoprotein A-I kinetics with survival and response to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

    • Ting Cheng
    • Xin Dai
    • Li-Yun Miao

    Original Paper 03 December 2014 Article: 407

    

36. Protective effect of ulinastatin in patients with non-small cell lung cancer after radiation therapy: a randomized, placebo-controlled study

    • Pengtao Bao
    • Weiguo Zhao
    • Changting Liu

    Original Paper 12 December 2014 Article: 405

    

37. Overexpression of SMYD3 was associated with increased STAT3 activation in gastric cancer

    • Yong Liu
    • Jingyu Deng
    • Han Liang

    Original Paper 04 December 2014 Article: 404

    

38. Apoptosis and calcification of vascular endothelial cell under hyperhomocysteinemia

    • Kuaifa Fang
    • Zhujun Chen
    • Pingsheng Wu

    Original Paper 05 December 2014 Article: 403

    

39. Topotecan combined with Ifosfamide, Etoposide, and l-asparaginase (TIEL) regimen improves outcomes in aggressive T-cell lymphoma

    • YaJuan Shao
    • Mei Guan
    • YuZhou Wang

    Original Paper 27 November 2014 Article: 402

    

40. Genetic association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in P53 pathway with gastric cancer risk in a Chinese Han population

    • Guo-cong Wu
    • Zhong-tao Zhang

    Original Paper 06 December 2014 Article: 401

41. CNS metastases in breast cancer patients: prognostic implications of tumor subtype

    • C. Bachmann
    • S. Schmidt
    • E. Grischke

    Original Paper 30 November 2014 Article: 400

    

42. Polymorphism of DNA methyltransferase 3B −149C/T and cancer risk: a meta-analysis

    • Jing Zhu
    • Songtao Du
    • Jixiang Ni

    Original Paper Open access 30 November 2014 Article: 399

    

43. The association between gene polymorphisms and risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

    • Jiqiao Yang
    • Lu Li
    • Yonggang Zhang

    Original Paper 07 December 2014 Article: 398

    

44. Five COX-2 gene polymorphisms and risk of breast cancer: an updated meta-analysis based on 19 case–control studies

    • Qing Li
    • Liu Liu
    • Weiping Min

    Review Article 30 November 2014 Article: 397

    

45. Topo2A as a prognostic biomarker for patients with resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

    • Xiao-Ling Xu
    • Wei-Hui Zheng
    • Wei-Min Mao

    Original Paper 29 November 2014 Article: 396

    

46. Iodine-125 brachytherapy improved overall survival of patients with inoperable stage III/IV non-small cell lung cancer versus the conventional radiotherapy

    • Wei Li
    • Jing Guan
    • Jianqing Jiang

    Original Paper 27 November 2014 Article: 395

    

47. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha up-regulates the expression of phospholipase D2 in colon cancer cells under hypoxic conditions

    • Maoxi Liu
    • Kunli Du
    • Xingye Wu

    Original Paper 29 November 2014 Article: 394

    

48. PRRX1 promotes epithelial–mesenchymal transition through the Wnt/β-catenin pathway in gastric cancer

    • Jinbao Guo
    • Zhongxue Fu
    • Shouru Zhang

    Original Paper 27 November 2014 Article: 393

    

49. Overexpression of ANXA2 predicts adverse outcomes of patients with malignant tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Xinyu Liu
    • Ding Ma
    • Weihua Qiu

    Original Paper 05 December 2014 Article: 392

    

50. Expressions of fatty acid synthase and HER2 are correlated with poor prognosis of ovarian cancer

    • Yunlang Cai
    • Jingmei Wang
    • Peilin Huang

    Original Paper Open access 30 November 2014 Article: 391