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Cancer Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . August 30th, 1999

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Cancer Weekly | Other Publications

Uterine Cervical Cancer - Clinical Significance of PD-ECGF Expression

Analgesia - Morphine Versus Hydromorphone. Which Is Better?

Cancer Gene Therapy - PTEN Gene Transfer Sensitizes Tumor to Radiation

Cancer Immunotherapy - Adoptive Immunotherapy Is Independent of Immunologic Specificity

Oncologic Pain (Treatment) - Colon Patients' Pain Can Be Blocked

Palliative Care (Analgesia) - Subcutaneous Methadone Needs Second Chance

Palliative Care (Economics) - Costs Leave Patients Undertreated

Choroidal Neovascular Membranes - Inflammatory Mediators Secreted by Macrophages Promote Angiogenesis

HTLV Transmission - One in 10 Babies Infected with HTLV by Mother

Lung Cancer (Therapy) - VEGF and Receptors as Therapeutic Targets in NSCLC

Protein Engineering - Single Amino Acid Mutations Modify TIMP-2 Specificity for MMPs

Blood Cancers (Risk Factors) - Study Reports No Blood Cancer Link with Oil Refineries

Brain Cancer - FDA Approves Drug for Cancer

Breast Cancer (Diagnostics) - Pilot Study of MRI Cancer Detection Opens

Breast Cancer (Etiology) - Virus Potentially Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer (Treatment) - FDA Approval Received for Phase I Cancer Ablation Trials

Cervical Cancer (Etiology) - Study Shows Human Papillomavirus in 99.7% of All Cervical Cancers

Gene Therapy Techniques - Improved Success in Gene Therapy for Blood and Other Disorders Targeted

Industry News (Breast Cancer) - Mammaglobin Is a Potential Disease Marker

Industry News (Cancer Therapies) - Survival Data Support Proleukin Therapy for Certain Cancer Patients

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Cancer Diagnostics Agreements Signed

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Research Collaboration for Cancer Gene Therapy Announced

Industry News (Lung Cancer Therapy) - Oral Anti-Angiogenesis Drug Trial To Treat Cancer Announced

Prostate Cancer (Clinical Trials) - Atragen Phase II Trial for Cancer Expanded

Radiation Therapy - Progress in Cancer Clinical Trials Announced

Prostate Cancer (VEGF) - "VEGF Enhances Tumor Development and Loss of Matrix Dependency in Human Prostate Cancer."

Anti-Angiogenics - "Inhibition of VEGF Signal Transduction in Cancer."

Breast Cancer (Endocrine Therapy) - "Prediction of Response to Endocrine Therapy in Metastatic Breast Cancer: Clinical Usefulness of EGF-R."

Breast Cancer (Obstetrics) - "Breast Cancer in Pregnancy and the Lactational Period. Surgical Management and Outcome."

Cancer Gene Therapy - "The Malignancy of Human Breast Cancer Cells Is Dramatically Reduced after Transfection and Overexpression of the Keratin 18 Gene."

Gene Transfer (Cancer Vaccines) - "Particle-Mediated (Biolistic) Transfection of Glioma and Melanoma Cell Lines: A Preliminary Study in the Preparation of a Cancer Vaccine."

Wound Healing - "Regulation of Tumor- and Angiogenic-Factor-Induced Angiogenesis, and Its Implication to Wound Healing."

Brain Tumors - "Local and Sustained Delivery of 5-fluorouracil From Biodegradable Microspheres for the Radiosensitization of Glioblastoma - A Pilot Study."

Breast Cancer (Growth Factors) - "Correlation Between Tumor Vascularity, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Production by Tumor Cells, Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels, and Serum Angiogenic Activity in Patients With Breast Carcino

Cancer (Pathogenesis) - "Alteration of Ganglioside Composition by Stable Transfection With Antisense Vectors Against GD3-Synthase Gene Expression."

Cancer Immunotherapy - "Enhanced Antitumor Activity of a Combination Treatment With a Mouse Human Chimeric Anti-MK-1 Antibody and Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells in vitro and in a Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mouse Xenograft Model. D

Cancer Immunotherapy - "Identification of New HER2/neu-Derived Peptide Epitopes That Can Elicit Specific CTL Against Autologous and Allogeneic Carcinomas and Melanomas."

Cancer Prognostics - "Prognostic Significance and Effect of Chemoradiotherapy on Microvessel Density (Angiogenesis) in Esophageal Barrett's Esophagus-Associated Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma."

Cancer Vaccines - "DNA Vaccination Against HuD Antigen Elicits Antitumor Activity in a Small-Cell Lung Cancer Murine Model."

Drug Resistance - "Interaction of the P-glycoprotein Multidrug Transporter (MDR1) With High Affinity Peptide Chemosensitizers in Isolated Membranes, Reconstituted Systems, and Intact Cells."

IMP Dehydrogenase Inhibitors - "Nucleoside and Non-Nucleoside IMP Dehydrogenase Inhibitors as Antitumor and Antiviral Agents."

Kaposi's sarcoma - "The Tat Protein of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Promotes Vascular Cell Growth and Locomotion by Engaging the alpha 5 beta 1 and alpha v beta 3 Integrins and by Mobilizing Sequestered Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor. DOUBLEQUOT

NSCLC (Growth Factors) - "The Expression of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (BFGF) in Tumor-Associated Stromal Cells and Vessels Is Inversely Correlated With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Progression."

Pediatrics - "Population Pharmacokinetics of Oral Morphine and Its Glucuronides in Children Receiving Morphine as Immediate-Release Liquid or Sustained-Release Tablets for Cancer Pain."

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