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Cancer Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . July 29th, 1996

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Cancer Weekly | Other Publications

Breast Cancer - Aspirin Offers No Protection in Study

Breast Cancer (Therapy) - Anastrozole Effective in Treating Cancer - with Less Weight Gain

Breast Cancer (Therapy) - Pulmonary Fibrosis Risk After Radiotherapy Increased with Tamoxifen

Cervical Cancer - Experts Confirm HPV A Major Cause of Cancer

Colorectal Cancer - Product Marketing Application Accepted For European Review

DNA Vaccines (Hepatitis B) - DNA Vaccine for HBV Tested and Compared in Chimpanzee Model

Drug Development - Protein May Have Implications for Cancer Treatments

Electrochemotherapy - ECT Offers Promising Approach to Treating Cancer

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Agreement Signed To Create Adult Oncology Program

International (Middle East) - Cancer Consortium Created

Lung Cancer - Study Reports No Radon Link to Lung Cancer

Melanoma - Common Skin Cancers Linked to Melanoma

Melanoma - Diagnostic Method Cuts Down on Need for Surgery

Melanoma - Gene Therapy Unleashes Power of Immune Response

Monoclonal Antibodies - MAT Technology Increases Drug Uptake in Tumors

Skin Cancer - How Much Sun Protection Can Clothing Provide?

Skin Cancer - Mohs Surgery Achieves High Cure Rates for Cancers

Skin Cancer - Sun-Habits Diary Shows What You Are Doing Wrong

Smoking Issues - Presence of Warthin's Tumor Linked to Cigarette Smoking

Testicular Cancer (Increased Risk) - Perinatal Factors Appear To Increase Cancer Risk

Transplantation (PBSC) - Leukapheresis Products May Vary in Number; Quality of Stem Cells

Vaccines (Antiviral) - B7-1 Enhances CTL and Antibody Response to Hepatitis B Surface Antigen

Vector Development - Reverse Genetics Generates a Chimeric Nonsegmented Negative Strand Vector

Vector Development (Synthetic) - Stable Cationic Lipid/DNA Complexes Developed for Gene Transfer

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Growth Inhibition of T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells Transfected with Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3."

Disease Associations - "Characterization of the DNA Polymerase and Glycoprotein B Genes of Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated and Related Herpesviruses."

Pathogenesis - "Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) Induces Dimerization and Transcriptional Activity of the Estrogen Receptor."

Pathogenesis - "Effect of Estrogen on the Regulation of Cytochrome P450IAI Gene Expression in MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cells."

Pathogenesis - "Evolutionarily Conserved Regulation of Achaete-Scute Homolog-1 in Human Neuroendocrine Tumors."

Pathogenesis - "Immunohistochemical Study of Adrenomedullin and PAMP in Medullary Human Carcinoma of Thyroid Gland."

Pathogenesis (Prostate Cancer) - "FGF-2 Enhanced Prostate Cancer Cell Proliferation Appears to Involve Activation of the ras and/or Protein Kinase C (PKC) Signal Transduction Pathways."

Antisense Technology - "Transferrin Receptor-Independent Uptake of Differic Transferrin by Human Hepatoma Cells with Antisense Inhibition of Receptor Expression."

Bladder Cancer (Therapy) - "Alternating Mitomycin C and Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Instillation Prophylaxis for Recurrent Papillary (Stages Ta to T1) Superficial Bladder Cancer."

Breast Cancer - "Antitumor Mechanism of Action of a Cyclopropyl Antiestrogen (Compound 7b) on Human Breast Cancer Cells in Culture."

CNS Tumors - A Model Targeting High Dose Topoisomerase II Poisons to CNS Tumors."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Gene Therapy for Alpha-Fetoprotein-Producing Human Hepatoma Cells by Adenovirus-Mediated Transfer of the Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinase Gene."

Cervical Cancer (Screening) - "Consequences of Neural Network Technology for Cervical Screening - Increase in Diagnostic Consistency and Positive Scores."

Colorectal Cancer - "Biochemical Modulation of Fluorouracil: Comparison of Methotrexate, Folinic Acid, and Fluorouracil Versus Folinic Acid and Fluorouracil in Advanced Colorectal Cancer: A Randomized Trial."

Colorectal Carcinoma - "A Dose-Finding Study of Lanreotide (A Somatostatin Analog) in Patients with Colorectal Carcinoma."

Colorectal Carcinoma (Testing) - "A New Approach to Fecal Occult Blood Testing Based on the Detection of Haptoglobin."

Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HBV) - "Additive Effect Modification of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and E Antigen on the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma."

Melanoma - "Adenoviral-Mediated Herpes Simplex Virus-Thymidine Kinase Gene Transfer in vivo for Treatment of Experimental Human Melanoma."

Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma - "Cisplatin, Epirubicin, and Vindesine with or without Lonidamine in the Treatment of Inoperable Nonsmall Cell Lung Carcinoma - A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial."

Ovarian Cancer (Therapy) - "A Combination of Ifosfamide and Mitoxantrone as Salvage Therapy in Patients with Advanced Ovarian Cancer."

Prostate Cancer - "Analysis of Risk Factors for Progression in Patients with Pathologically Confined Prostate Cancers after Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy."

Prostate Cancer - "Effect of the Number of Core Biopsies of the Prostate: On Predicting Gleason Score of Prostate Cancer."

Prostate Cancer - "Endo-Rectal Coil Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Is It Accurate?."

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