TUMORI a Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology
Volume 94 - Number 4 July-August 2008

Abstract

REVIEW

• Luigi Celio, Angela Denaro, Stefania Canova, Arpine Gevorgyan, and Emilio Bajetta
  Clinical update on palonosetron in the management of chemotherapy­induced nausea and vomiting
  Tumori 2008; 94: 447-452

CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

• Alejandro de la Torre, Jesus Romero, Angel Montero, M Isabel Garcia­Berrocal, Francisco J Valcarcel, Sofia Cordoba, and Rosa Magallon
  Radiochemotherapy with cisplatin and oral tegafur in advanced head and neck cancer: long­term results of a phase II study
  Tumori 2008; 94: 453-458
• George Galateros, George Simatos, Gregorios Lakiotis, Martha Stathaki, Spyros Volteas, Georgia Kafiri, and Varvara Theologi
  Stromal tumors of the stomach: a clinicopathological study of 15 cases and review of the literature
  Tumori 2008; 94: 459-463
• Vincenzo Di Lauro, Antonio Murrone, Ettore Bidoli, Maria D Magri, Diana Crivellari, and Andrea Veronesi
  Trastuzumab and vinorelbine as highly effective and safe therapy for HER­2­overexpressing metastatic breast cancer. A single institution experience
  Tumori 2008; 94: 464-468
• Yulia Kundel, Mark L Levitt, Bernice Oberman, Siegal Sadezki, Thomas Tichler, Zvi Symon, Raphael Catane, Raphael Pfeffer, and Baruch Brenner
  Adjuvant chemotherapy and whole abdominal irradiation for gastric carcinoma
  Tumori 2008; 94: 469-473
• Zafer Akcali, Zuleyha Calikusu, Hakan Sakalli, and Ozgur Ozyilkan
  Gemcitabine and cisplatin treatment of advanced­stage non­small­cell lung cancer in patients given cisplatin on day 8
  Tumori 2008; 94: 474-480
• Maria Ornella Nicoletto, Donato Nitti, Luigi Pescarini, Francesco Corbetti, Roberto Mencarelli, Alessandro Cappetta, Alessandra Galligioni, Claudia Pogliani, Alberto Marchet, Fernando Bozza, Cristina Ghiotto, Luciano Griggio, Giorgio Zavagno, Martin Edward Donach, and Cosimo Di Maggio
  Correlation between magnetic resonance imaging and histopathological tumor response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer
  Tumori 2008; 94: 481-488
• Giammaria Fiorentini, Alessandro Del Conte, Michele De Simone, Stefano Guadagni, Andrea Mambrini, Michelina D’Alessandro, Camillo Aliberti, Giuseppe Rossi, and Maurizio Cantore
  Complete response of colorectal liver metastases after intra­arterial chemotherapy
  Tumori 2008; 94: 489-492
• Valerio di Norcia, Manolo Piccirilli, Felice Giangaspero, and Maurizio Salvati
  Gliosarcomas in the elderly: analysis of 7 cases and clinico­pathological remarks
  Tumori 2008; 94: 493-496

PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AND DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

• Fabio Pacelli, Antonio Pio Tortorelli, Fausto Rosa, Valerio Papa, Maurizio Bossola, Alejandro Martin Sanchez, Alessandra Ferro, Roberta Menghi, Marcello Covino, and Giovanni Battista Doglietto
  Retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma: prognostic factors and therapeutic approaches
  Tumori 2008; 94: 497-504
• Katia Bifulco, Annarosaria De Chiara, Flavio Fazioli, Immacolata Longanesi­Cattani, Anna Rita Cantelmo, Virginia Tirino, Gaetano Apice, Gaetano Rocco, Maria Luisa Lombardi, and Maria Vincenza Carriero
  Cell invasiveness in sarcomas: a possibly useful clinical correlation
  Tumori 2008; 94: 505-510
• Antica Duletic - Nacinovic, Sanja Štifter, Blažen Marijic, Ksenija Lucin, Toni Valkovic, Duška Petranovic, and Nives Jonjic
  Serum IL­6, IL­8, IL­10 and beta2­microglobulin in association with international prognostic index in diffuse large B cell lymphoma
  Tumori 2008; 94: 511-517
• Stefano Ciatto, Nehmat Houssami, Francesca Martinelli, Francesco Giusti, and Marco Zappa
  PSA use and incidence of prostate biopsy in the Tuscany region: is opportunistic screening discounting biopsy in subjects with PSA elevation?
  Tumori 2008; 94: 518-522

LABORATORY RESEARCH

• Kyung Hee Lee, Eun Young Choi, Myung Soo Hyun, Jong Ryul Eun, Byung Ik Jang, Tae Nyeun Kim, Heon Ju Lee, Dong Shik Lee, Sung Su Yun, Hong Jin Kim, Jung Hye Kim, and Jae­Ryong Kim
  Cellular mechanisms of hepatocyte growth factor­mediated urokinase plasminogen activator secretion by MAPK signaling in hepatocellular carcinoma
  Tumori 2008; 94: 523-530
• Li Chen, Xinyu Li, Guei­lan Wang, Yu Wang, York­Yuan Zhu, and Jianwei Zhu
  Clinicopathological significance of overexpression of TSPAN1, KI67 and CD34 in gastric carcinoma
  Tumori 2008; 94: 531-538
• Ting­Xiu Xiang, Yan Li, Zheng Jiang, Ai­Long Huang, Cong Luo, Bin Zhan, Pi­Long Wang, Xiao­Hong Tao
  RNA interference­mediated silencing of the Hsp70 gene inhibits human gastric cancer cell growth and induces apoptosis in vitro and in vivo
  Tumori 2008; 94: 539-550
• Antonio Taddei, Francesca Castiglione, Duccio Rossi Degl'Innocenti, Anna Maria Buccoliero, Francesca Garbini, Cinzia Tommasi, Giancarlo Freschi, Paolo Bechi, Luca Messerini, and Gian Luigi Taddei
  NF2 expression levels of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a quantitative real­time PCR study
  Tumori 2008; 94: 551-555
• Önder Bozdogan, Pinar Atasoy, Ertan Batislam, M Murad Basar, and Halil Basar
  Significance of p57Kip2 down­regulation in oncogenesis of bladder carcinoma: an immunohistochemical study
  Tumori 2008; 94: 556-562
• Giulia Schillani, Maria Anna Capozzo, Eugenio Aguglia, Maurizio De Vanna, Luigi Grassi, Maria Anna Conte, and Tullio Giraldi
  5­HTTLPR polymorphism of serotonin transporter and effects of sertraline in terminally ill cancer patients: report of eleven cases
  Tumori 2008; 94: 563-567

SUPPORTIVE CARE AND PSYCHOLOGY

• Carlo Alfredo Clerici, Franca Fossati­Bellani, Paolo Lepera, Massimiliano Gennaro, Silvana Bergonzi, Cristina Meazza, Marta Podda, Lorenza Gandola, Laura Veneroni, Michela Casanova, Graziella Cefalo, Andrea Ferrari, Roberto Luksch, Maura Massimino, Daniela Polastri, Filippo Spreafico, and Monica Terenziani
  Psychological assessment of women on an early breast screening program after radiotherapy to the chest wall for childhood cancer
  Tumori 2008; 94: 568-573

CASE REPORTS

• Wayne Hsu, Shyr­Ming Sheen­Chen, Hock­Liew Eng, and Sheung­Fat Ko
  Mammographic microcalcification in an autogenously reconstructed breast simulating recurrent carcinoma
  Tumori 2008; 94: 574-576
• Zafer Teke, Burhan Kabay, Metin Akbulut, and Ergun Erdem
  Primary infiltrating ductal carcinoma arising in aberrant breast tissue of the axilla: a rare entity. Report of a case
  Tumori 2008; 94: 577-583
• Rita Alfieri, Rita Alaggio, Alberto Ruol, Carlo Castoro, Matteo Cagol, Silvia Michieletto, Fabio Pomerri, Antonio Acquaviva, and Ermanno Ancona
  Hepatogastric inflammatory pseudotumor presumably deriving from prior amebic infection
  Tumori 2008; 94: 584-588
• Massimiliano Berretta, Ernesto Zanet, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Cecilia Simonelli, Alessandra Bearz, Aldo Morra, Santo Bonanno, Salvatore Berretta, and Umberto Tirelli
  Unusual presentation of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma in an HIV/HCV coinfected patient: case report and review of the literature
  Tumori 2008; 94: 589-591
• Giuseppe Bifulco, Vincenzo Dario Mandato, Roberto Piccoli, Luigi Bucci, Pierluigi Giampaolino, and Carmine Nappi
  Multiple bowel stenosis and perforation as long­term complications of chemoradiotherapy for advanced cervical cancer in a young woman: case report
  Tumori 2008; 94: 592-595
• Erkan Topkan, Yilmaz Polat, and Aziz Karaoglu
  Primary mucinous adenocarcinoma of appendix treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy: a case report
  Tumori 2008; 94: 596-599
• Giovanni Saredi, Corradino Di Pietro, Roberta Spasciani, Stefano De Stefani, Maria Chiara Sighinolfi, Salvatore Micali, and Giampaolo Bianchi
  Tumor seeding after open nephroureterectomy for ureteral transitional cell carcinoma
  Tumori 2008; 94: 600-601
• Claudio Coco, Alberto Manno, Claudio Mattana, Alessandro Verbo, Daniel Sermoneta, Gianluca Franceschini, Annamaria De Gaetano, Luigi Maria Larocca, Luigi Petito, Giorgio Pedretti, Gianluca Rizzo, Claudio Lodoli, and Domenico D'Ugo
  Congenital tumors of the retrorectal space in the adult: report of two cases and review of the literature
  Tumori 2008; 94: 602-607
• Francesco Puglisi, Fabio Marino, Antonia Gentile, Palma Capuano, Gennaro Martines, Giuseppe Lograno, and Riccardo Memeo
  Laparoscopic treatment of simultaneous splenic lymphangioma and non­Hodgkin’s lymphoma: report of a case
  Tumori 2008; 94: 608-611
• Georgios F Samelis, Konstantinos A Ekmektzoglou, Theodoros Xanthos, and Georgios C Zografos
  Small­cell lung cancer: an unusual therapeutic approach with more than 10­year overall survival. Case report and review of the literature
  Tumori 2008; 94: 612-616
• Fausto Famà, Valeria Barresi, Giuseppe Giuffrè, Paolo Todaro, Sergio Mazzei, Angelo Vindigni, and Maria Gioffrè­Florio
  An unusual presentation of secondary involvement of B­cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A case report
  Tumori 2008; 94: 617-620

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Silvia De Padova, Gialma Carlà, Raffaele Maniglia, Pietro Salamina, and Vito Lorusso
  Communication near the end of life
• Andrea Angelo Martoni
  In reply
• Davide Tassinari, Carlotta Santelmo, Paola Tombesi, Luigi Lazzari­Agli, and Sergio Sartori
  Clinical guidelines in advanced cancer: why we cannot avoid an evidence­based model
• Pierluigi Ballardini, Susanna Gamberini, Guido Margutti, and Roberto Manfredini
  Hepatic abscess and silent underlying colon cancer: an emerging association?
• Bohuslav Melichar, Radomír Hyšpler, Emanuela Dragounová, Hana Kalábová, and Josef Dvorák
  Intestinal permeability and toxicity of second­line therapeutic agents in ovarian cancer
• Claudio Zanon
  Phase 0 trial as first human study in translational research in medical technology
  Tumori 2008; 94: 626-627

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