Cancer Biology & Therapy, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2009)

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Editor's Corner

Editorial
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Searching for the ideal cancer vaccine
Pages: 104-105
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Review

Review Article
Osteosarcoma – conventional treatment vs. gene therapy
Mei Lin Tan, Peter F. M. Choong & Crispin R. Dass
Pages: 106-117
Published online: 15 Jan 2009
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Clinical Study

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The HIF-1α C1772T polymorphism may be associated with susceptibility to clinically localized prostate cancer but not with elevated expression of hypoxic biomarkers
R Foley, L Marignol, A.Z. Thomas, I.M. Cullen, A.S Perry, P. Tewari, A. O'Grady, E Kay, B. Dunne, B. Loftus, R.W. Watson, J.M. Fitzpatrick, K. Woodson, T. Lehman, D. Hollywood, T.H. Lynch & M. Lawler
Pages: 118-124
Published online: 15 Jan 2009
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TMPRSS2-ERG fusion is frequently observed in gleason pattern 3 prostate cancer in a Canadian cohort
Andrew D. Darnel, Christopher J. LaFargue, Robin T. Vollmer, Jacques Corcos & Tarek A. Bismar
Pages: 125-130
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Brief Clinical Report

Brief Report
Absence of germline BRCA1 mutations in familial pancreatic cancer patients
Jennifer E. Axilbund, Pedram Argani, Mihoko Kamiyama, Emily Palmisano, Marian Raben, Michael Borges, Kieran A Brune, Michael Goggins, Ralph H. Hruban & Alison P. Klein
Pages: 131-135
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Research Paper

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Primary tumor cells obtained from MNU-induced mammary carcinomas show immune heterogeneity which can be modulated by low-efficiency transfection of CD40L gene
Gunes Esendagli, Hande Canpinar, Guldal Yilmaz, Aysen Gunel-Ozcan, M. Oguz Guc, Emin Kansu & Dicle Guc
Pages: 136-142
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Commentary

CD40L gene transfer in immunotherapy of cancer: more than co-stimulation?
Christoph Bergmann & Sven Brandau
Pages: 143-145
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Chemotherapeutic sensitization by endoplasmic reticulum stress: Increasing the efficacy of taxane against prostate cancer
Yue Wu, Melissa Fabritius & Clement Ip
Pages: 146-152
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Skp2 and salivary cancer
Ofer Ben-Izhak, Sharon Akrish, Shlomit Gan & Rafael M. Nagler
Pages: 153-158
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Cell cycle proteins to monitor cancer of salivary glands
Edward Chan & Joseph Katz
Pages: 159-160
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Preclinical assessment of anti-cancer drugs by using RP215 monoclonal antibody
Gregory Lee, Rui-Ai Chu & Hong Hoi Ting
Pages: 161-166
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Ovarian carcinoma as a surrogate tumor for lung adenocarcinomas in evaluating the chemo-stability of a gene expression signature
Justin M. Balko & Esther P. Black
Pages: 167-173
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RNAi-mediated inhibition of Raf-1 leads to decreased angiogenesis and tumor growth in gastric cancer
Fanping Meng, Baoxia Dong, Hanwei Li, Daiming Fan & Jie Ding
Pages: 174-179
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Anti-tumor activity mediated by protein and peptide transduction of HIV viral protein R (Vpr)
Karuppiah Muthumani, Vance M. Lambert, Mayilvahanan Shanmugam, Khanh P. Thieu, Andrew Y. Choo, J. Christopher W. Chung, Abhishek Satishchandran, J. Joseph Kim, David B. Weiner & Kenneth E. Ugen
Pages: 180-187
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Putting HIV-1 apoptosis mediators to work against cancer: A killer job, with benefits
Susan Nyland & Thomas P. Loughran
Pages: 188-191
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Silent beginning: Early silencing of the MED1/MBD4 gene in colorectal tumorigenesis
Giovanni Neri & Emanuela Lucci-Cordisco
Pages: 192-193
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