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Cancer Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 16th, 1998

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Related Areas: Other Issues in Cancer Weekly | Other Publications

Cancer Gene Therapy - Tetracycline-Responsive Expression System Enhances Suicide Gene Therapy Approach

Cancer Immunotherapy - IL-2-Mediated Vaccination Modulates Plasma Cell Tumor Growth

Combination Therapy - Gene Therapy/Chemotherapy Combination Tested Against Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Pathogenesis (Gene Therapy) - Interferons Repress Retrovirus-Mediated Transgene Expression In Vivo

Carcinogenesis - HBx Protein May Be Involved in Hepatocellular Cancer

Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpes Virus - Virus Probably Is Not Involved in Etiology of Young Adult Hodgkin's Disease

Antisense Technology - Cancer-Fighting Compound Limits Action of Telomerase

Breast Cancer - Cancer Test May Reduce Need for Surgery

Cancer Immunotherapy - Therapy Induces Prolonged Anti-Tumor Immune Response

Cancer Therapies - WHO: Carotenoid Pills Should Not Be Promoted For Cancer Prevention

Cancer Therapies - Results of Radiation Enhancement By RSR13 Reported

Diagnostics (Bladder Cancer) - Advantages of NMP22 Cancer Test Reported

Diagnostics (Esophageal Cancer) - Multi-Center Optical Biopsy System Study for Early Cancer Detection Commenced

Epidemiology - Energy Department Announces Brookhaven Lab Cancer Study

Human Papilloma Virus - Rampant HPV Poses Billion-Dollar Public Health Dilemma

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Gene Therapy Delivery Technology Collaboration Announced

Mastectomy - Patented Pouch Eases Post-Surgical Recovery for Breast Surgery Patients

Occupational Risks (Multiple Myeloma) - Older Nuclear Workers at Great Risk of Rare Cancer

Ovarian Cancer - Drug Poses Risks of Cancer

Pain Management - FDA Filing for Cancer Pain Drug MorphiDex Announced

Polio Vaccines - Monkey Virus in Vaccine Apparently Harmless

Screening (Cervical Cancer) - Misread Smear Tests May Have Caused Eight Deaths

Suicide Gene Therapy - Doctors Use Gene Therapy in Treatment of Cancer

Therapy (HCV) - "Long-Term Prognosis of Type C Chronic Hepatitis Patients Treated with Interferon; Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Adenovirus-Mediated HSV-tk/Ganciclovir Gene Therapy in a Mammary Cancer Transgenic Mouse Model."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Improvement of Adenovirus-Mediated Transfer of the HSV-1 Thymidine Kinase to Early Rat Hepatocarcinoma (HCC) by Selective Administration Through the Hepatic Artery."

Disease Associations - "Presence of Human Cytomegalovirus DNA in Hepatocellular Carcinoma."

Epidemiology (Hepatoma) - "A Retrospective Analysis of Hepatoma at The Toronto Hospital 1989-1994."

HPV Vaccines - "Human Papillomavirus (HPV) E2 Protein Contains a Chimera of Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) and EGF Family Mitogens: Heregulin and Tumor Growth Factor."

Antisense Technology - "Antiproliferative Effects of c-myc Antisense Oligonucleotide in Prostate Cancer Cells: A Novel Therapy in Prostate Cancer."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Adenovirus-Mediated Delivery of p16 to p16-Deficient Human Bladder Cancer Cells Confers Chemoresistance to cisplatin and Paclitaxel."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Advances in the Biological Therapy and Gene Therapy of Malignant Disease."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Disorders in Cell Circuitry Associated with Multistage Carcinogenesis: Exploitable Targets for Cancer Prevention and Therapy."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Isolated Limb Perfusion in the Sarcoma-Bearing Rat: A Novel Preclinical Gene Delivery System."

Cancer Immunotherapy - "Prospects for Cytokine and Chemokine Biotherapy."

Cancer Vaccines - "Effects of a beta-Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Subunit Immunogen Administered in Aqueous Solution with a Novel Nonionic Block Copolymer Adjuvant in Patients with Advanced Cancer."

DNA Vaccines - "Priming for T-Cell-Mediated Rejection of Established Tumors by Cutaneous DNA Immunization."

Prostate Cancer - "Prediction of Extraprostatic Extension of Prostate Cancer Based on Needle Biopsy Findings: Perineural Invasion Lacks Significance on Multivariate Analysis."

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