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Cancer Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 24th, 1997

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Cancer Weekly | Other Publications

Genotyping (HCV) - Genotype 1b Associated with Increased HCC Risk

Suicide Gene Therapy - Liver Toxicity Associated with Adv-Mediated HSV-tk/GCV Gene Therapy

Alternative Medicine - Herbal Medicine: Pharmaceutical Versions Developed

Angiogenesis - Preclinical Results Reported on Anti-Cancer Therapeutics

Bladder Cancer - Cell Recovery System Trial Initiated in Cancer Diagnosis

Bladder Cancer - Immunocyt Sensitivity Confirmed In Detecting Cancer

Blood Banking - Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Offered

Brain Cancer - Higher Rates of Cancer in Eastern Idaho Counties

Breast Cancer - Unconventional Therapies Released in Research Initiative

Breast Cancer (Screening) - Screening System Ready To Begin Clinical Trial

Cancer (Diagnostics) - Optical Imaging System Detects Breast, Prostate, and Other Cancers

Cancer (Therapy) - IND Filed for Phase III Trial in Malignant Melanoma

Cancer (Therapy) - Libido-Enhancing Drug May Have Additional Applications

Cancer (Therapy) - Taxotere Receives Marketing Clearance in Five Countries

Cancer Gene Therapy - p53 Trials Expanded to Europe and Japan

Cancer Gene Therapy (Chemokines) - MIP-1(alpha) Gene Transfer Reduced Tumorigenicity and Induced Protective Immunity

Cervical Cancer - Testing Begins on Vaccine for Virus that Causes Cancer

Cervical Cancer (Screening) - Coverage Approved for ThinPrep Pap Test

Colorectal Cancer (Screening) - Cancer Testing Is Most Aggressive Worldwide

Drug Development - Isis Pharmaceuticals Touts New Drug Therapies

Funding - SBIR Grant Received for Cancer Research

Government (Policy) - Legislation to Require Coverage of Cancer Clinical Trials

Immunology - FLT-3 Ligand Phase II Studies May Be Accelerated

Industry News - Broad Spectrum Anti-Cancer Agent Acquired

Legal Issues - Feds Reject Compromise on Doctors Recommending Medical Pot

Lung Cancer - Patent Issued on Technology for Early Cancer Detection

Lung Cancer (Treatment) - Supplemental PMA Filed with FDA for Cancer Treatment

Monoclonal Antibodies - Transgenic Production of Antibodies Announced

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - FDA Approves Cancer Study, Preliminary HIV Trial Results Announced

Prostate Cancer - EchoGen Cancer Clinical Trial Results Announced

Sexually Transmitted Disease - New Venereal Diseases Strengthen Case For Safer Sex

Transplantation - Busulfanex Trials Expansion of NDA Submission Announced

Gene Transfer (Adenoviral Vectors) - "Inefficient Infection of Primitive Hematopoietic Precursors Cells (CD34+) Using CMV Driven Adenoviral Vectors (ad-v)."

Chemotherapy (Clinical Trials) - "GM-CSF Priming in the Therapy of De-Novo AML Patients: an Update of a Double-Blind Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial."

Chemotherapy (Cost Evaluation) - "Economic Evaluation of G-CSF Use in the Therapy of Adult Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)."

Disease Associations - "The Prevalence of Malignancy in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Positive Patients Admitted to a Community Hospital."

Disease Associations (Prognosis) - "HIV Associated Non Hodgkin's Lymphomas With Good Prognosis Factors."

Immunology (HIV) - "Short-Term Changes In Plasma HIV RNA Following Chemotherapy for Lymphoma."

Kaposi's sarcoma (Therapy) - "DOX-SL (Stealth Liposomal Doxorubicin HCL) Maintenance Therapy After Response in AIDS Related Kaposi's Sarcoma."

Kaposi's sarcoma (Therapy) - "Role of G-CSF in AIDS Patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma Treated with Bleomycin and Vincristine."

Antisense Technology - "Treatment of Philadelphia Leukemia in Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mice by Combination of Cyclophosphamide and bcr/abl Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotides."

Bladder Cancer - "Angiogenesis Inhibitor TNP-470 Suppresses Tumorigenesis in Rat Urinary Bladder."

Bladder Cancer - "Evolution and Clinical Significance of the T Cell Proliferative and Cytokine Response Directed Against the Fibronectin Binding Antigen 85 Complex of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin during Intravesical Treatment of Superficial Bladder Cance

Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia - "Cost Comparison of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin and Blood Transfusion in Cancer Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia."

Colon Cancer - "Dietary Fat and Colon Cancer: Modulating Effect of Types and Amount of Dietary Fat on ras-p21 Function during Promotion and Progression Stages of Colon Cancer."

Drug Development - "An Information-Intensive Approach to the Molecular Pharmacology of Cancer."

Drug Development - "Preclinical Antitumor Activity of 6-hydroxymethylacylfulvene, a Semisynthetic Derivative of the Mushroom Toxin Illudin S."

Head and Neck Carcinoma - "Generation of Therapeutic T Cells from Draining Lymph Nodes in a Murine Model of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Characterization of Ribonucleoprotein Complexes Containing an Abundant Polyadenylated Nuclear RNA Encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (Human Herpesvirus 8)."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Human Herpesvirus KSHV Encodes a Constitutively Active G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Linked to Cell Proliferation."

Liver Cirrhosis - "Long Course and Prognostic Factors of Virus-Induced Cirrhosis of the Liver."

Melanoma - "Body Distribution of Free, Liposomal and Nanoparticle-Associated Mitoxantrone in B16-Melanoma-Bearing Mice."

Melanoma - "Immune Response in Human Melanoma after Transfer of an Allogeneic Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Gene with DNA-Liposome Complexes."

Melanoma - "Induction of Melanoma Reactive T Cells by Stimulator Cells Expressing Melanoma Epitope-Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Fusion Proteins."

Melanoma - "Phase I Study of Direct Gene Transfer of an Allogeneic Histocompatibility Antigen, HLA-B7, in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma."

Prostate Cancer - "Intermittent Androgen Deprivation after PSA-Complete Response as a Strategy to Reduce Induction of Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer."

Prostate Cancer - "The Free-to-Total Serum Prostate Specific Antigen Ratio for Staging Prostate Carcinoma."

Vector Development - "Tracking and Quantitation of Retroviral-Mediated Transfer using a Completely Humanized, Red-Shifted Green Fluorescent Protein Gene."

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