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Cancer Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . April 26th, 1999

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Cancer Weekly | Other Publications

Cancer Immunotherapy - Trials Suggest IFN-(alpha) May Have Merit in Cancer Treatment

Cancer Immunotherapy - Combination Therapy goes to Trial

Cancer Immunotherapy - Gene-Gun Therapy Pulls Trigger on Cancer

Cancer Immunotherapy - HCC Immunotherapy Could Target MAGE Gene Family

Cancer Immunotherapy - NY-ESO-1 Expression Could Be Exploited for Immunotherapy

Cancer Immunotherapy - Naked DNA Cytokine Delivery Has Immune Modulating Effects

Cancer Immunotherapy - Short-Term Interleukin Expression Attacks Cancer Cells

Cancer Vaccines - Virus-Modified Tumor Cells Make Safe Cancer Vaccine

Breast Cancer - Value of Vascularity As Tumor Prognostic Factor

Breast Cancer (Prevention) - African-American Churches Witness Positive Influence on Cancer Screening

Growth Factors - VEGF Involved in Development of Germ Cell Tumors

Oncologic Pain (Breast Cancer) - Premedication Benefits Women Undergoing Biopsy

Pediatric Oncology - Transdermal Fentanyl Effective in Children

Angiogenesis (Cell Biology) - Molecular Link Discovered that Allows Cells To Form Blood Vessels

Anti-Angiogenesis (AACR Conference News) - Anti-VEGFR2 Antibody Data Presented

Anti-Angiogenesis (AACR Conference News) - Gene and Key Target Receptor Protein Blocking Angiogenesis Identified

Breast Cancer (AACR Conference News) - Further Proof of Damage to the FHIT Gene in Breast Cancers Found

Breast Cancer (AACR Conference News) - Peptide Therapeutic Shuts Down Metastasis in Mice

Breast Cancer (Nutrition) - Study Shows Soy May Cut Breast Cancer Risk

Breast Cancer (Pathogenesis) - Role of Faulty DNA Repair in Breast Cancer Discovered

Breast Cancer (Treatment) - Study: Herceptin Reduces Breast Cancer Deaths

Cancer Immunotherapy (AACR Conference News) - Drug's Protective Effect on Lymphocytes Reported

Chemotherapy (AACR Conference News) - Study: Taxol Derivative Is Less Toxic, More Effective

Melanoma Vaccine (AACR Conference News) - Vaccine Proves Successful for Patients with Disease Spread to Two Lymph Node Areas

Nutrition (AACR Conference News) - Vitamins May Make Cancer Less Aggressive

Pancreatic Cancer (Therapy) - New Agent Shows Promise in Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Prostate Cancer (AACR Conference News) - Peptide Therapeutic Inhibits Tumor Growth in Animal Model

Prostate Cancer Vaccine - Trial Results of Cancer Vaccine Reported

Pathogenesis (HCC) - "Antibodies to Alpha-Fetoprotein Cryptic Epitopes Detectable in Serum of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Liver Cirrhosis and Chronic Hepatitis Patients."

Animal Models - "An Osteoblastic Xenograft Model for Prostate Cancer (CaP) Bone Metastasis."

Cancer Angiogenisis - "Computerized Image Analysis in the Assessment of Bone Marrow Angiogenesis in Multiple Myeloma."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Intracellular Plasmid Transfected into Human Ovarian Cancer Cells using Cationic Liposomes and Gene Expression Efficiency."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "Triplex Based Gene Therapy of Breast and Ovarian Cancer."

Cancer Vaccines - "Recombinant Tumor Vaccine - CATBRM."

Diagnostics (Micrometastases) - "Quantitative Methods for Examining the Drug Resistance Phenotype of Micrometastatic Cancer Cells in Bone Marrow: DNA Damage in Response to In Vitro Drug Treatment."

Cancer Vaccines - "Induction of Specific CD8+ T-Lymphocyte Responses Using a Human Papillomavirus-16 E6/E7 Fusion Protein and Autologous Dendritic Cells."

Cancer Vaccines - "Phase II Prostate Cancer Vaccine Trial: Report of a Study Involving 37 Patients With Disease Recurrence Following Primary Treatment."

Gene Transfer - "TGF-beta-Independent Induction of Immunogenicity by Decorin Gene Transfer in Human Malignant Glioma Cells."

Ovarian Cancer - "VEGF, VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2, Microvessel Density and Endothelial Cell Proliferation in Tumours of the Ovary."

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