Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . October 12th, 1998
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Cancer Gene Therapy - Retrovirus-Mediated Transfer of Adenovirus Gene Has In Vivo Antitumor Effect
Conference Coverage (ICAAC) - Primary Epstein-Barr Virus Infection Often Misdiagnosed
Suicide Gene Therapy (Hepatocellular Carcinoma) - Dual Gene Delivery Enhances Bystander Effect and Cell Killing
Blood Banking (Plateletpheresis) - Lower Hemoglobin Cutoff Would Encourage Repeat Donations
Brain Cancer - Beginning of Phase III Gd-Tex Trial for Brain Metastases Announced
Breast Cancer - Cancer Trial Using Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplants Initiated
Breast Cancer - U.S. FDA Approves Herceptin for Cancer
Breast Cancer (Risk Factors) - Lesbians Have Higher Rate of Breast Cancer Risk Factor
Cancer Genetics (Prostate Cancer) - First Major Cancer Gene Mapped to X-Chromosome
Cancer Therapies - Drug Combination Shows Promising Approach to Cancer Treatment
Genetics - U.S. Experts Say Time To Think About Gene Therapy in Womb
Pancreatic Cancer (Clinical Trials) - Trials of ONYX-015 in Pancreatic Cancer Expanded
Prostate Cancer - Test Helps Pick Right Cancer Therapy
Treatment - New Approaches May Finally Offer Hope for Leukemia
Vaccine Development - Vaccine Data from Clinical Trials Presented at ICAAC
Cancer Immunotherapy - "Human Tumor Growth Suppression By Apoptosis Induced With Anti-ErbB-2 Chimeric Monoclonal Antibody."
Cancer Immunotherapy - "Preparation And Characterization Of A Humanized 520C9 Single-Chain Fv/Human Interleukin-2 Fusion Protein."
Diagnostics (CNS Lymphoma) - "Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) PCR of CSF: Is It Useful in the Diagnosis of Primary CNS Lymphoma in HIV Patients?"
Disease Associations - "Patients with Cutaneous Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) Have Higher Viral Loads than Patients with Visceral KS."
Radioimmunotherapy - "Issues In Radioimmunotherapy Dosimetry."
Brain Tumors - "Trends in Reported Incidence of Primary Malignant Brain Tumors in Children in the United States."
Cancer Gene Therapy - "Quantitative H-1 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Spectroscopy of BT4C Rat Glioma During Thymidine Kinase-Mediated Gene Therapy in vivo: Identification of Apoptotic Response."
Cancer Genetics - "Immunohistochemical Detection of c-erbB-2 and p53 in Benign Breast Disease and Breast Cancer Risk."
Cancer Immunotherapy - "Chimeric Human-Mouse IgG Antibodies with Shuffled Constant Region Exons Demonstrate That Multiple Domains Contribute to in vivo Half-Life."
Cancer Immunotherapy - "Tumor Cell Apoptosis, Lymphocyte Recruitment and Tumor Vascular Changes Are Induced by Low Temperature, Long Duration (Fever-Like) Whole Body Hyperthermia."
Febrile Neutropenia - "Ceftriaxone Monotherapy in the Treatment of Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenia."
Kaposi's sarcoma - "Overexpression of Bcl-2 in Kaposi's sarcoma-Derived Cells."
Melanoma Vaccines - "Correlation of Specific Immune Responses with Survival in Melanoma Patients with Distant Metastases Receiving Polyvalent Melanoma Cell Vaccine."
Prostate Cancer - "An Algorithm Combining Age, Total Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA), and Percent Free PSA to Predict Prostate Cancer: Results on 4,298 Cases."
Prostate Cancer - "Comparability of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Measurement Between the Hybritech Tandem-R and Abbott AxSYM Assays."
Prostate Cancer - "Free/Total Prostate-Specific Antigen Ratio Can Prevent Unnecessary Prostate Biopsies."
Skin Cancer - "Oral Psoralen and Ultraviolet-A Light (PUVA) Treatment of Psoriasis and Persistent Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer."
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