1. CYP17, GSTP1, PON1 and GLO1gene polymorphisms as risk factors for breast cancer: an Italian case-control study

   • Cinzia Antognelli
   • Chiara Del Buono
   • Antonio Rulli

   Research article Open access 20 April 2009 Article: 115

2. Activation of P2X₇-mediated apoptosis Inhibits DMBA/TPA-induced formation of skin papillomas and cancer in mice

   • Wen Fu
   • Tom McCormick
   • George I Gorodeski

   Research article Open access 20 April 2009 Article: 114

   

3. Contamination and sample mix-up can best explain some patterns of mtDNA instabilities in buccal cells and oral squamous cell carcinoma

   • Hans-Jürgen Bandelt
   • Antonio Salas

   Correspondence Open access 16 April 2009 Article: 113

   

4. Cetuximab in combination with irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid (FOLFIRI) in the initial treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer: a multicentre two-part phase I/II study

   • Jean-Luc Raoul
   • Jean-Luc Van Laethem
   • Philippe Rougier

   Research article Open access 14 April 2009 Article: 112

   

5. KRAS mutation analysis in ovarian samples using a high sensitivity biochip assay

   • Veronika Auner
   • Gernot Kriegshäuser
   • Robert Zeillinger

   Research article Open access 09 April 2009 Article: 111

6. A retrospective analysis of second-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer

   • Sang Hoon Ji
   • Do Hyoung Lim
   • Won Ki Kang

   Research article Open access 09 April 2009 Article: 110

7. Immunostaining with D2–40 improves evaluation of lymphovascular invasion, but may not predict sentinel lymph node status in early breast cancer

   • Anna V Britto
   • André A Schenka
   • Laura S Ward

   Research article Open access 08 April 2009 Article: 109

8. Classifying breast cancer surgery: a novel, complexity-based system for oncological, oncoplastic and reconstructive procedures, and proof of principle by analysis of 1225 operations in 1166 patients

   • Jürgen Hoffmann
   • Diethelm Wallwiener

   Research article Open access 08 April 2009 Article: 108

   

9. Rosiglitazone synergizes anticancer activity of cisplatin and reduces its nephrotoxicity in 7, 12-dimethyl benz{a}anthracene (DMBA) induced breast cancer rats

   • Kulbhushan Tikoo
   • Parveen Kumar
   • Jeena Gupta

   Research article Open access 08 April 2009 Article: 107

   

10. Complementarity of ultrasound and fluorescence imaging in an orthotopic mouse model of pancreatic cancer

    • Cynthia S Snyder
    • Sharmeela Kaushal
    • Michael Bouvet

    Research article Open access 08 April 2009 Article: 106

    

11. Prognostic scores in brain metastases from breast cancer

    • Carsten Nieder
    • Kirsten Marienhagen
    • Michael Molls

    Research article Open access 07 April 2009 Article: 105

    

12. Prediction of breast cancer by profiling of urinary RNA metabolites using Support Vector Machine-based feature selection

    • Carsten Henneges
    • Dino Bullinger
    • Bernd Kammerer

    Research article Open access 05 April 2009 Article: 104

    

13. The subcellular localization of IGFBP5 affects its cell growth and migration functions in breast cancer

    • Mustafa Akkiprik
    • Limei Hu
    • Wei Zhang

    Research article Open access 03 April 2009 Article: 103

    

14. Up-regulation of bone marrow stromal protein 2 (BST2) in breast cancer with bone metastasis

    • Dongqing Cai
    • Jie Cao
    • Ziqiang Yuan

    Research article Open access 01 April 2009 Article: 102

    

15. Treatment of recurrent malignant gliomas with fotemustine monotherapy: impact of dose and correlation with MGMT promoter methylation

    • Alessandra Fabi
    • Giulio Metro
    • Andrea Pace

    Research article Open access 31 March 2009 Article: 101

    

16. Regulation of HSP27 on NF-κB pathway activation may be involved in metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma cells apoptosis

    • Kun Guo
    • Nan Xiao Kang
    • Kun Yin Liu

    Research article Open access 31 March 2009 Article: 100

    

17. New structural analogues of curcumin exhibit potent growth suppressive activity in human colorectal carcinoma cells

    • Ling Cen
    • Brian Hutzen
    • Jiayuh Lin

    Research article Open access 30 March 2009 Article: 99

    

18. Estimation of age- and stage-specific Catalan breast cancer survival functions using US and Catalan survival data

    • Ester Vilaprinyo
    • Montserrat Rué
    • Montserrat Martínez-Alonso

    Research article Open access 30 March 2009 Article: 98

    

19. Fenretinide-induced caspase-8 activation and apoptosis in an established model of metastatic neuroblastoma

    • Gilda Raguénez
    • Annick Mühlethaler-Mottet
    • Nicole Gross

    Research article Open access 30 March 2009 Article: 97

    

20. MRM screening/biomarker discovery with linear ion trap MS: a library of human cancer-specific peptides

    • Xu Yang
    • Iulia M Lazar

    Research article Open access 27 March 2009 Article: 96

    

21. Microvessel density as new prognostic marker after radiotherapy in rectal cancer

    • Saulius Svagzdys
    • Vaiva Lesauskaite
    • Algimantas Tamelis

    Research article Open access 26 March 2009 Article: 95

    

22. Staged stromal extracellular 3D matrices differentially regulate breast cancer cell responses through PI3K and beta1-integrins

    • Remedios Castelló-Cros
    • David R Khan
    • Edna Cukierman

    Research article Open access 26 March 2009 Article: 94

    

23. QPRT: a potential marker for follicular thyroid carcinoma including minimal invasive variant; a gene expression, RNA and immunohistochemical study

    • Nora Hinsch
    • Matthias Frank
    • Martin-Leo Hansmann

    Research article Open access 26 March 2009 Article: 93

    

24. Androgen deprivation modulates the inflammatory response induced by irradiation

    • Chun-Te Wu
    • Wen-Cheng Chen
    • Miao-Fen Chen

    Research article Open access 25 March 2009 Article: 92

    

25. Population based prostate cancer screening in north Mexico reveals a high prevalence of aggressive tumors in detected cases

    • Lauro S Gomez-Guerra
    • Margarita L Martinez-Fierro
    • Augusto Rojas-Martinez

    Research article Open access 24 March 2009 Article: 91

    

26. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and chromogenic in situ hybridization: precise methods to detect HER-2 status in breast carcinoma

    • Fabíola E Rosa
    • Sara M Silveira
    • Silvia R Rogatto

    Research article Open access 23 March 2009 Article: 90

    

27. Plausibility of stromal initiation of epithelial cancers without a mutation in the epithelium: a computer simulation of morphostats

    • Stuart G Baker
    • Ana M Soto
    • Barnett S Kramer

    Research article Open access 23 March 2009 Article: 89

    

28. Circulating cell death products predict clinical outcome of colorectal cancer patients

    • Pim J Koelink
    • Cornelis BHW Lamers
    • Hein W Verspaget

    Research article Open access 23 March 2009 Article: 88

    

29. Overexpression of UbcH10 alternates the cell cycle profile and accelerate the tumor proliferation in colon cancer

    • Takeo Fujita
    • Hirokuni Ikeda
    • Hiroyoshi Doihara

    Research article Open access 21 March 2009 Article: 87

    

30. The prevalence of BRCA1 mutations among young women with triple-negative breast cancer

    • SR Young
    • Robert T Pilarski
    • Steven A Narod

    Research article Open access 19 March 2009 Article: 86

31. Enhanced antitumor efficacy of cisplatin in combination with HemoHIM in tumor-bearing mice

    • Hae-Ran Park
    • Eun-Jin Ju
    • Sung-Tae Yee

    Research article Open access 17 March 2009 Article: 85

    

32. Breast cancer epidemiology according to recognized breast cancer risk factors in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Cohort

    • James V Lacey Jr
    • Aimee R Kreimer
    • the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial Project Team

    Research article Open access 17 March 2009 Article: 84

33. APRIL is overexpressed in cancer: link with tumor progression

    • Jérôme Moreaux
    • Jean-Luc Veyrune
    • Bernard Klein

    Research article Open access 16 March 2009 Article: 83

    

34. Sunitinib treatment for patients with clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma: clinical outcomes and plasma angiogenesis markers

    • Loukas F Kontovinis
    • Konstantinos T Papazisis
    • Alexandros H Kortsaris

    Research article Open access 12 March 2009 Article: 82

    

35. Characterization of STAT3 activation and expression in canine and human osteosarcoma

    • Stacey L Fossey
    • Albert T Liao
    • Cheryl A London

    Research article Open access 10 March 2009 Article: 81

    

36. ADAM33 gene silencing by promoter hypermethylation as a molecular marker in breast invasive lobular carcinoma

    • Gerusa G Seniski
    • Anamaria A Camargo
    • Giseli Klassen

    Research article Open access 06 March 2009 Article: 80

    

37. The high affinity selectin glycan ligand C2-O-sLe^x and mRNA transcripts of the core 2 β-1,6-N-acetylglusaminyltransferase (C2GnT1) gene are highly expressed in human colorectal adenocarcinomas

    • Catherine A St Hill
    • Mariya Farooqui
    • Bruce Walcheck

    Research article Open access 06 March 2009 Article: 79

    

38. The prognostic value of four interleukin-1 gene polymorphisms in caucasian women with breast cancer – a multicenter study

    • Christoph Grimm
    • Eva Kantelhardt
    • Lukas Hefler

    Research article Open access 06 March 2009 Article: 78

    

39. Genes of cell-cell interactions, chemotherapy detoxification and apoptosis are induced during chemotherapy of acute myeloid leukemia

    • Anne Margrete Øyan
    • Nina Ånensen
    • Bjørn Tore Gjertsen

    Research article Open access 05 March 2009 Article: 77

    

40. Knowledge of risk factors, beliefs and practices of female healthcare professionals towards breast cancer in a tertiary institution in Lagos, Nigeria

    • Nasiru A Ibrahim
    • Olumuyiwa O Odusanya

    Research article Open access 04 March 2009 Article: 76

41. Id2 promotes the invasive growth of MCF-7 and SKOV-3 cells by a novel mechanism independent of dimerization to basic helix-loop-helix factors

    • Yuanguang Meng
    • Chenglei Gu
    • Weidong Han

    Research article Open access 04 March 2009 Article: 75

    

42. Functional characterization of E- and P-cadherin in invasive breast cancer cells

    • David Sarrió
    • José Palacios
    • Gema Moreno-Bueno

    Research article Open access 03 March 2009 Article: 74

    

43. The role of PET/CT in detection of gastric cancer recurrence

    • Sung Hoon Sim
    • Yu Jung Kim
    • Yung-Jue Bang

    Research article Open access 01 March 2009 Article: 73

    

44. Differential expression of topoisomerase IIα protein in salivary gland carcinomas: histogenetic and prognostic implications

    • Shin-ichiro Maruya
    • Takashi Shirasaki
    • Hideichi Shinkawa

    Research article Open access 27 February 2009 Article: 72

    

45. Loss of heterozygosity of TRIM3 in malignant gliomas

    • Jean-Louis Boulay
    • Urs Stiefel
    • Frank Hirth

    Research article Open access 27 February 2009 Article: 71

    

46. Clustering of cancer among families of cases with Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL), Multiple Myeloma (MM), Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL), Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS) and control subjects

    • Helen H McDuffie
    • Punam Pahwa
    • James A Dosman

    Research article Open access 27 February 2009 Article: 70

47. Carboxypeptidase 4 gene variants and early-onset intermediate-to-high risk prostate cancer

    • Phillip L Ross
    • Iona Cheng
    • John S Witte

    Research article Open access 26 February 2009 Article: 69

48. Rectal cancer treatment and outcome in the elderly: an audit based on the Swedish rectal cancer registry 1995–2004

    • Bärbel Jung
    • Lars Påhlman
    • Erik Nilsson

    Research article Open access 26 February 2009 Article: 68

    

49. Expression of verotoxin-1 receptor Gb3 in breast cancer tissue and verotoxin-1 signal transduction to apoptosis

    • David Johansson
    • Eldina Kosovac
    • Parviz Behnam-Motlagh

    Research article Open access 26 February 2009 Article: 67

    

50. Randomised Phase I/II trial assessing the safety and efficacy of radiolabelled anti-carcinoembryonic antigen I¹³¹KAb201 antibodies given intra-arterially or intravenously in patients with unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma

    • Asma Sultana
    • Susannah Shore
    • Paula Ghaneh

    Research article Open access 25 February 2009 Article: 66