REVIEW ARTICLES
Emerging therapies targeting castration-resistant prostate cancer
Ioannis K. Gkialas, Charalampos Fragkoulis; pp 1389-1396 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Bladder cancer risk from the perspective of genetic polymorphisms in the carcinogen metabolizing enzymes
Olga Antonova, Draga Toncheva, Evgeni Grigorov; pp 1397-1406 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
BREAST CANCER
Young age and pathological features predict breast cancer outcome – report from a dual Institution experience in Serbia
Ana Cvetanovic, Lazar Popovic, Sladjana Filipovic, Jasna Trifunovic, Nikola Zivkovic, Gorana Matovina-Brko, Milos Kostic, Ferenc Vicko, Biljana Kocic, Ivana Kolarov-Bjelobrk; pp 1407-1413 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Aurora A overexpression in breast cancer patients induces taxane resistance and results in worse prognosis
Yalcin Cirak,Yavuz Furuncuoglu, Ozlem Yapicier, Asude Aksu, Erdem Cubukcu; pp 1414-1419 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Pharmacotherapeutic recommendations for application of target oncological drug therapies for treatment of breast cancer in Bulgaria – therapeutic efficacy and cost effectiveness
Toni Vekov, Hristina Lebanova, Evgeni Grigorov; pp 1420-1425 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Erythropoietin receptor and tissue factor are coexpressed in human breast cancer cells
Marek Z. Wojtukiewicz, Dominika Hempel, Joanna Kruszewska, Lech Zimnoch, Walter Kisiel, Ewa Sierko; pp 1426-1431 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Predicting the role of the pretreatment neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in the survival of early triple-negative breast cancer patients
Oktay Bozkurt, Halit Karaca, Veli Berk, Mevlude Inanc, Ayse Ocak Duran, Ersin Ozaslan, Mahmut Ucar, Metin Ozkan; pp 1432-1439 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
COLORECTAL CANCER
Comparison of the long-term outcomes of patients who underwent laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer
Chunli Guo, Zili Zhang, Bingbing Ren, Xiangchao Men; pp 1440-1446 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Laparoscopic rectal resection versus conventional open approach for rectal cancer – a 4-year experience of a single center
Florin Zaharie, George Ciorogar, Roxana Zaharie, Teodora Mocan, Claudiu Zdrehus, LucianMocan, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Patriciu Achimas, Cornel Iancu, Claudiu Tomus; pp 1447-1455 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
An adoptive T cell immunotherapy targeting cancer stem cells in a colon cancer model
Xin-Ying Gao, Xiu-Ling Wang; pp 1456 -1463 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Heat shock protein 70 is a useful marker for predicting colorectal cancer
Meral Gunaldi, Hakan Kocoglu, Yildiz Okuturlar, Asuman Gedikbasi, Mehmet Karabulut, Halil Alis, Mehmet Hursitoglu; pp 1464-1470 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS
Therapeutic silencing of HPV 16 E7 by systemic administration of siRNA-neutral DOPC nanoliposome in a murine cervical cancer model with obesity
Hector Chapoy-Villanueva, Ivonne Martinez-Carlin, Lopez-Berestein G, Arturo Chavez-Reyes; pp 1471-1479 (Pubmed Abstr,PDF)
[Retracted] Inhibitory effect of Aphidicolin – a tetracyclic diterpene – on the proliferation and apoptotic induction in human cervical cancer (HeLa) cells
En-Yan Yu, Rui-Yan Zhao, Dong-Sheng Wang; pp 1480-1486 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
(This article has been retracted. See the Retraction notice here)
Antiproliferative and apoptotic effects of the ethanolic herbal extract of Achillea falcata in human cervical cancer cells are mediated via cell cycle arrest and mitochondrial membrane potential loss
Qing Tian, Yong-Hong Zang; pp 1487-1496 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Human MALAT-1 long non-coding RNA is overexpressed in cervical cancer metastasis and promotes cell proliferation, invasion and migration
Yan Zhang, Tao Wang, Hua-Qiao Huang, Wei Li, Xiao-Ling Cheng, Jing Yang; pp 1497-1503 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Aberrant expression profile of translationally controlled tumor protein and tumor-suppressive microRNAs in cervical cancer
Li-juan Hou, Jian-jun Zhai; pp 1504-1509 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
HEAD & NECK CANCERS
Combination treatment with antiEGFR monoclonal antibodies in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a meta-analysis
Cheng Yuan, Xin-Hua Xu, Zhuo Chen; pp 1510-1517 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Essential oil of Cinnamon exerts anti-cancer activity against head and neck squamous cell carcinoma via attenuating epidermal growth factor receptor – tyrosine kinase
Xin-Qing Yang, Hao Zheng, Qing Ye, Rui-Yu Li, Yong Chen; pp 1518-1525 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES
A retrospective comparison of early stage primary extranodal with nodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients: A single center experience
Dogan Yazilitas, Nuriye Ozdemir, Cemil Hocazade, Yakup Bozkaya, Ozan Yazici, Mehmet Ali Nahit Sendur, Nurullah Zengin; pp 1526-1533 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphism and risk of chronic myelogenous leukemia: a meta-analysis
Chen Li, Jin Yichao, Liu Jiaxin, Zhang Yueting, Lu Qin, Yang Tonghua; pp 1534-1545 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
MELANOMA
Flax seed oil inhibits metastatic melanoma and reduces lung tumor formation in mice
Jian Han, Shan-Shan Lu, Zhi-Jie Wang, You-Lin Li; pp 1546-1552 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown of Notch1 suppresses tumor growth and enhances the effect of IL-2 immunotherapy in malignant melanoma
Zike Yang,Yanxia Qi, Changgeng Lu, Jiahe Zhang, Rongcheng Luo, Shijun Kang; pp 1553-1564 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
PANCREATIC CANCER
Genome-wide pathway analysis in pancreatic cancer
Young Ho Lee, Gwan Gyu Song; pp 1565-1575 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
LUNG CANCER
Weight loss at the time of diagnosis is not associated with prognosis in patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer
Cem Sahin, Muhyettin Omar, Hasan Tunca, Serdar Kalemci, Burak Ozseker, Gulhan Akbaba, Ozgur Tanriverdi; pp 1576-1584 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
Very long-term outcomes of minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Yingwei Zhu, Weichang Chen; pp 1585-1591 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
CNS CANCER
Anticancer effects of bishydroxycoumarin are mediated through apoptosis induction, cell migration inhibition and cell cycle arrest in human glioma cells
Cheng-Gang Zhang, Jing-Chun Huang, Tao Liu, Xiang-Ying Li; pp 1592-1600 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
PROSTATE CANCER
The role of the digital rectal examination as diagnostic test for prostate cancer detection in obese patients
Lucio Dell’Atti; pp 1601-1605 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
MISCELLANEOUS
Do medical oncologists, and cancer patients care about treatment costs of systemic anticancer therapy?
Erdinc Nayir, Alper Ata, Ali Arican; pp 1606-1611 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Clinical value of serum cancer antigen 19-9 as a tumor screening marker among healthy individuals
Gui-Bin Yang; pp 1612-1616 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Hypersensitivity reactions to platinum derivatives: findings of new predictive markers
Sinziana Cetean, Tudor Ciuleanu, Daniel-Corneliu Leucuta, Calin Cainap, Anne-Marie Constantin, Irina Cazacu, Simona Cainap, Alexandra Gherman, Luminita Oprean, Adriana Hangan, Radu Oprean; pp 1617-1623 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Stem cells improve the quality of colonic anastomoses – A systematic review
Alexandra Caziuc, George Calin Dindelegan, Emoke Pall, Aurel Mironiuc; pp 1624-1629 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
SHORT COMMUNICATION
Uncommon benign lesions of the adrenal glands mimicking sinister pathologies: report of 8 cases
Panagis M. Lykoudis, Constantinos Nastos, Dionysis Dellaportas, Evi Kairi-Vassilatou, Christina Dastamani, Agathi Kondi-Pafiti; pp 1630-1634 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
SPECIAL ARTICLE
Chromosome 7 deregulation in non-small cell lung carcinoma molecular landscape
Evangelos Tsiambas, Vasileios Ragos, Alicia Y. Lefas, Stavros N. Georgiannos, Dimitra Grapsa, Efstratios Patsouris, Konstantinos Syrigos; pp 1635-1639 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Insomnia caused by aromatase inhibitors; a therapeutic challenge in patients with breast cancer
Fatih Karatas, Suleyman Sahin, Taner Babacan, Serkan Akin, Ali R Sever, Kadri Altundag; p 1640 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Ductal component – need for personalized follow-up after radical prostatectomy
Nicolae Crisan, Iulia Andras, Catalina Bungardean, Ioan Coman; p 1641 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Delayed severe thrombocytopenia due to Ipilimumab
Memis Hilmi Atay, Engin Kelkitli, Bahiddin Yilmaz ; p 1642 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
George N. Papanicolaou (1883-1962): studying his first published article in Science 100 years on
Ioannis N. Mammas, Demetrios A. Spandidos; p 1643 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
Disulfide subproteome alterations in the platelets of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome
Klara Pecankova, Pavel Majek, Jaroslav Cermak, Jan E. Dyr; p 1644 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)
HISTORY OF ONCOLOGY
Uterine cancer in the writings of Byzantine physicians
Marianna Karamanou, Gregory Tsoucalas, Konstantinos Laios, Efthimios Deligeoroglou, Emmanouil Agapitos, George Androutsos; pp 1645-1648 (Pubmed Abstr, PDF)