Cancer Weekly
Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . November 3rd, 1997
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Antisense Therapy - Suppression of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Inhibits Tumorigenicity
Activism - More Than 5,000 Sign Online Petition for Breast Cancer Legislation
Blood Products - New Drug Could Ease Shortages Of Platelets
Brain Cancer - Interim Safety and Efficacy Data on Radiation Sensitizer Announced
Breast Cancer - Low Cost Detection Product Available in South America
Breast Cancer - No More "Wait and See" for Abnormal Mammograms
Breast Cancer (Diagnostics) - Breast Screening for UK Elderly Would Save Lives
Cancer Gene Therapy - Promising In Vivo Results from Combination Chemo/Immunotherapy
Cancer Gene Therapy (Delivery) - HUVEC Used as a Cellular Vehicle for Gene Therapy
Cancer Gene Therapy (MDR) - IL-2 Gene Transfer Chemosensitizes MDR Cancer Cells
Cancer Gene Therapy (Vaccines) - Cancer Vaccine from IL-18 Transfected Tumor Cells
Cancer Metastases - Cancer Spread Visualized By A Jellyfish Fluorescent Gene
Cancer Therapies - Cancer Slowed When Blood Vessel Growth In Tumors Blocked
Cancer Therapies - Monoclonal Antibody Inhibits Lymphoma Growth
Carcinogenesis (HBV) - TGF-(alpha) Has Role in Hepatitis B-Related HCC
Clinical Trials (Skin Diseases) - Phase II Clinical Studies of Synthetic Hypericin Begin
Cytomegalovirus - CMV Complications Delayed in AIDS Patients Given Antiviral Pill And Eye Implant
Disease Transmission (Kaposi's Sarcoma) - Saliva May Transmit KS Virus
Environment - Scientists Find Most Cancerous Compound in Diesel Exhaust Fumes
Environment (EMF) - Possible Health Risk From Electromagnetic Fields Studied
Epidemiology - U.S. Cancer Patients Living Longer, Expert Says
Ethics (Genetic Screening) - Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary
Hepatitis C Virus - Swedes Find Better Way To Treat HCV
Industry News - Advanced Device for Cancer Therapy Available at Dana-Farber Institute
Industry News - UroMed Unveils Innovative Cancer Products
Industry News (Breast Cancer) - Novopharm Biotech Inc. Takes Steps to Terminate Relationship with BreasTek, Inc.
Industry News (Joint Venture) - Licensing Agreement Signed for Photodynamic Therapy
Internet (Clinical Trials) - New Software Means Paperless Clinical Trials, Quicker Cures
Lung Cancer - Photofrin Launched In France and Germany
Melanoma (Diagnostics) - Scientists Closer To Developing BCC Skin Cancer Test
Melanoma Therapies - Marketing Approval Received for Virulizin in Mexico
Neurobiology - Major Factor In Genetic Basis Of Brain Development Discovered
Prostate Cancer - Phase I Trials of 'Liposome Encapsulated Doxorubicin' Encouraging
Smoking Issues - Studies Blow Away Doubts About Passive Smoking
Vaccine Development - Heat Shock Proteins Elicit Immune Responses to Diverse Antigens, Pathogens
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Combination of Gene Therapy Strategies in Animal Models of Ovarian Cancer."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Ex Vivo and In Vivo IGF-1 Antisense RNA Strategies for Treatment of Cancer in Humans."
Cancer Immunotherapy - "Enhancement of Anti-Tumor Immunity by Injection of Fibroblasts Genetically Engineered to Produce IL-12 and to Express Two Co-Stimulatory Molecules CD70 and CD80."
Cancer Vaccines - "The Antitumor Capacity of the Antibody from the Mice Induced by IL-4 Gene-Modified Tumor Vaccine."
DNA Vaccines - "DNA Vaccine as Gene Therapy Against HIV and Cancer."
Disease Associations - "Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis: Association with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and Mycobacterium avium Complex."
Epidemiology (Lung Cancer) - "Lung Cancer Mortality Rates in Birth Cohorts in the United States from 1961 Through 1993."
Adhesion Molecules - "Expression of ICAM-1 Enhances in vivo Lymphocyte Adhesion in a Murine Fibrosarcoma."
Antisense Technology - "Correlation of Glioma Cell Regression with Inhibition of Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-2 Expression."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Adenoviral Vector Infection of the Human Exocrine Pancreas."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Effects of IL-3 Gene Expression on Tumor Response to Irradiation in vitro and in vivo."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Induction of Antibody Response to Human Tumor Antigens by Gene Therapy using a Fusigenic Viral Liposome Vaccine."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Retinoids Augment the Bystander Effect in vitro and in vivo in Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinase Ganciclovir-Mediated Gene Therapy."
Chemotherapy (Research) - "Sexual Functioning after Multimodality Treatment for Disseminated Nonseminomatous Testicular Germ Cell Tumor."
Human Papillomavirus - "In vitro and Animal Models for Antiviral Therapy in Papillomavirus Infections."
Kaposi's sarcoma - "AIDS-Related Kaposi's sarcoma: Prospective Validation of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Staging Classification."
Melanoma - "Incidence of Invasive Cancers Following Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma."
Melanoma - "Update on Active Specific Immunotherapy with Melanoma Vaccines."
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HCV) - "Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Patients with B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma."
Prostate Cancer - "Determinants of Prostate-Specific Antigen Test Use in Prostate Cancer Screening by Primary Care Physicians."
Virology (GBV-C) - "GB Virus-C RNA in Japanese Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhosis."
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