Clinical Oncology Week

Breast Cancer - Eating meat or fish is not associated with breast cancer

Multiple Myeloma - Farnesyl transferase inhibitor induces apoptosis in drug resistant cells

Anticancer Target - VIP plays important role in the CNS development as well as cancer cell growth

Gynecological Oncology - Assessing quality of life can better address patients' concerns

Inoperable Liver Cancer - Laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation is a very good option

Lymphatic Mapping - Intralesional injection can identify sentinel nodes and guide tumor excision

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - Intellectual and neuropsychological outcome is similar to all chemo patients

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - Prognosis after second CNS relapse is extremely poor

Advanced Cancer - Quality of life studies should differentiate between death and dropout

Advanced Colorectal Cancer - High-dose 5-FU/low dose methotrexate plus low-dose PALA was not an improvement

Alternative Choices - Alternative medicine use has significant negative impact on survival

Antitumor Engineering - B cell tumors can be targeted by CD80/IL-15 stimulated T lymphocytes

Bladder Cancer - MR imaging of the bladder can evaluate transitional cell carcinoma

Brain Tumors - Zinc taken up in tumor may be utilized for tumor cell proliferation

Breast Cancer - MUC1 interacts with beta-catenin and vinculin and promotes metastasis

Breast Cancer - Tamoxifen alone can lead to an unacceptably high rate of local progression

Breast Cancer - Wide local excision plus tamoxifen may be beneficial for older women

Breast Cancer Metastasis - Higher frequency occurs at the inflow junction of afferent lymph vessel

Breast/Ovarian Cancer - 8p21 tumor suppressor BNIP3L does not appear to be responsible

Cancer Development - Study finds no association between in vitro fertilization and cancer development

Cancer-Linked Genes - Germline BACH1 mutations do not appear linked to breast and ovarian cancer

Carcinogen Exposure - High exposure to acrylamide is higher still in smoking than non-smoking Germans

Carcinogenic Chemicals - Organic chemicals are likely to be activated by cytochrome P450 enzymes

Cervical Cancer - HPV16 integrates preferentially at common fragile sites

Cervical Cancer - Melatonin modulates the action of near infrared radiation on cell adhesion

Colon Cancer - Bacterial enterotoxins are associated with resistance

Colorectal Cancer - Quality assurance is needed for introduction and effectiveness of new techniques

Endocrine Neoplasia - Superficial neuromas enabled early diagnosis of endocrine neoplasia type 2B

Environmental Exposure - Decreased DNA repair gene expression is due to arsenic exposure in water

Environmental Risk - Organochlorine pesticide testing in sera of breast cancer patients is positive

Esophageal Cancer - Lower death risk associated with higher amounts of magnesium in drinking water

Extraskeletal Osteochondroma - Ossified mass in the soft tissues could be extraskeletal osteochondroma

Fetal Brain Tumors - Intrauterine brain teratoma can be detected by ultrasonography

Fibrohistiocytic Tumor - Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans metastasizes to head of pancreas

Gastric Cardia Cancer - There are no changing trends in incidence of gastric cardia cancer in Korea

Head and Neck Cancer - Epidemiology in S. Korea shows higher risk in men and metastasis is common

Head and Neck Flaps - Success and healing of the flap may be better with radiation therapy