March 2008 Volume 5 Number 3
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EDITORIAL
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Systems medicine in oncology
Jose Costa
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VIEWPOINT
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There's many a slip twixt cup and lip: adherence issues in cancer therapy
Lesley Fallowfield
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0Boi80EL
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
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CT scans do not improve response assessment for chronic lymphocytic
leukemia
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojA0EV
Gain of 1q predicts poor survival in patients with medulloblastoma
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojB0EW
Successful treatment of multifocal DCIS with breast-conserving surgery
and radiotherapy
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojC0EX
Tissue-microarray study supports change to guidelines for assessment
of HER2 expression
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojD0EY
Cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone as induction therapy for multiple
myeloma
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojE0EZ
Adjuvant radiotherapy benefits patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojF0Ea
Interferon treatment reduces incidence of malignant lymphoma in patients
infected with HCV
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojG0Eb
Early complete remission is a survival indicator in only a small subset
of multiple myeloma cases
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojH0Ec
Cell-cycle regulators might be useful diagnostic markers in
differentiated thyroid cancer
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojI0Ed
Panitumumab confers QoL benefits on patients with metastatic colorectal
cancer
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojJ0Ee
Time to biochemical failure predicts distant metastases and
prostate-cancer-specific mortality
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojK0Ef
Early detection of cervical lesions by use of human papillomavirus
DNA testing
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojL0Eg
Biochemotherapy improves response rates but not survival in metastatic
melanoma
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojM0Eh
Adjuvant chemotherapy provides a slight survival advantage in low-risk
colorectal cancer
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PRACTICE POINTS
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Are metastatic testicular tumors curable with high-dose chemotherapy
and stem-cell rescue?
Giovanni Rosti, Ugo De Giorgi and Paolo Pedrazzoli
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojO0Ej
Cisplatin alone or in combination versus hydroxyurea during pelvic
irradiation for cervical cancer
Dirk Rades and Steven E Schild
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojP0Ek
Are children with lesser-risk B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia
curable with antimetabolite therapy?
Ching-Hon Pui, William E Evans and Mary V Relling
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojQ0El
Does combining docetaxel with cisplatin and fluorouracil improve clinical
benefit in advanced gastroesophageal cancer?
Gihan Ratnayake and David Cunningham
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojR0Em
The main site of origin for malignancies detected during risk-reducing
surgery for ovarian cancer
Mark Morgan
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojS0En
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REVIEWS
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Advances in the systemic therapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma
Dean A Fennell, Giovanni Gaudino, Kenneth J O'Byrne, Luciano Mutti and
Jan van Meerbeeck
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojT0Eo
Clinical and pathologic aspects of basal-like breast cancers
Oluwole Fadare and Fattaneh A Tavassoli
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojU0Ep
Technology Insight: advances in molecular imaging and an appraisal of
PET/CT scanning
Wolfgang A Weber, Anca L Grosu and Johannes Czernin
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/ejQf0Xztnp0HjM0BojV0Eq
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CASE STUDY
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Placental-site trophoblastic tumors: a case of resistant pulmonary
metastasis
Michael E Cole, Russell Broaddus, Premal Thaker, Charles Landen and
Ralph S Freedman
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Cell Death & Differentiation Special Issue on Immunity
In this issue of CDD, several reviews focus on the role of death, at
the cellular level, in immunity.
Select reviews on:
- NK cells at the interface between innate and adaptive immunity
- Apoptosis and the immune system
- Clearance of apoptotic cells by phagocytes
- Mechanisms of granule-dependent killing
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