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Cancer Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . April 14th, 1997

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Cancer Weekly | Other Publications

Cancer Gene Therapy - Canarypox Virus-Mediated Immunotherapy: Success In Vivo

Breast Cancer - More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis Advances Reported

Breast Cancer (California) - Bill Clears Way To Lifesaving Breast-Cancer Treatment

Cancer (Detection) - Technologies Featured at Annual Meeting

Cancer Gene Therapy - Tumor Transfection with Nitric Oxide Gene Exhibits Bystander Effect

Cancer Gene Therapy (Immunotherapy) - IL-2 Transduced Tumor Cells Effective Against Pancreatic Cancer

Cancer Therapies - Improvement Seen in Cancer Patients Treated with Targretin

Cancer Therapies - U.S. Patents Issued Relating to Immunogenic Product

Case Reports (HCV) - Hepatitis C Appears to Prompt Burkitt's Lymphoma

Chemotherapy - Experimental Test Predicts Cancer Chemotherapy Success

Clinical Trials - Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and KS Data Reported

Drug Development (Granulocyte) - Drug Enables European Cancer Patients To Avoid BM Transplant

Funding (Breast Cancer) - Wal-Mart Supports In-Store Breast Health Program

Genetics - Annual Meeting Focuses National Attention on Cancer Genetics

Genetics - Gene Involved in Brain, Breast and Prostate Cancers

Genital Warts - Amendment Filed to New Drug Application for AccuSite

Hepatitis C - Update on Hepatitis C

Immunizations - Hepatitis B Vaccine Required for School

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Agreement Established To Improve Treatment of Cancer Patients

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Agreement Signed To Develop New Class of Anticancer Drugs

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Funding Received for Research and Development Collaboration

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Small Molecule Compounds Treat Chronic Anemias

International (Asia) - AutoPap System Approved for Primary Screening in Japan

International (Middle East) - Permission Announced To Begin Cancer Study in Israel

Malignant Melanoma - 21st Century Predicts Alarming Incidence of Skin Cancer

Testing (Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus) - Viral Capsid Component Serves As Marker for Infection

Transplantation - Busulfan Clinical Trial Initiation Announced

Transplantation - Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants Impact on Human Health

Vaccine Development (HCV) - DNA Vaccines Augmented with Cytokine-Expressing Plasmids

DNA Vaccines (Hepatitis) - "Enhancement of Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses to Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Core Protein Using DNA Based Vaccines Augmented with Cytokine Expressing Plasmids."

Disease Associations - "Invasive Cervical Cancer (ICC) in HIV+ Women in New York City (NYC)."

Disease Associations - "Perspectives on HHV8 and Kaposi's Sarcoma."

Disease Associations (HIV/HPV) - "HIV-1 Induces the Translation of the Major Capsid Protein of Naturally Integrated HPV18."

Immunology (HCV) - "Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): Adsorption to Hepatoma Cells, Lymphoma Cells, and Lymphocytes In Vitro."

Kaposi's Sarcoma - "Hormones in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of KS."

Kaposi's Sarcoma (Pathogenesis) - "New Insights In KS Pathogenesis: KSHV-Encoded Homologs to Cellular Genes."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Adenovirally Transferred p16(INK4/CDKN2) and p53 Genes Cooperate to Induce Apoptotic Tumor Cell Death."

Disease Presentation - "Pancreaticoduodenal Tuberculosis Simulating Metastatic Ovarian Carcinoma."

Immunotherapy - "Prognostic Significance of Preimmunotherapy Serum CA27.29 (MUC-1) Mucin Level after Active Specific Immunotherapy of Metastatic Adenocarcinoma Patients."

Immunotherapy - "Recombinant Interleukin-2 in Combination with Recombinant Interferon-gamma in Patients with Advanced Malignancy: A Phase 1 Study."

Kaposi's sarcoma - "Lymphangioma-Like Variant of Kaposi's sarcoma: Clinicopathologic Study of Seven Cases with Review of the Literature."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Human Herpesvirus-8 Encodes Homologues of Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-1 and Interleukin-6."

Leukemia (Angiogenesis) - "Spectrum of Tumor Angiogenesis in the Bone Marrow of Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia."

Melanoma - "Immunocytochemical Detection of MART-1 in Fresh and Paraffin-Embedded Malignant Melanomas."

Pediatrics - "Genetic Staging of Unresectable or Metastatic Neuroblastoma in Infants: A Pediatric Oncology Group Study."

Prostate Cancer - "Body Size and Prostate Cancer: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study among 135,006 Swedish Construction Workers."

Small-Cell Lung Cancer - "Serum Anti-p53 Antibodies and Prognosis of Patients with Small-Cell Lung Cancer."

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