TUMORI a Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology
Volume 98, Number 6, November-December 2012

Abstract

EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Pamela Minicozzi, Adele Caldarella, Adriano Giacomin, Maurizio Ponz de Leon, Rosaria Cesaraccio, Fabio Falcini, Mario Fusco, Francesco Iachetta, Carlotta Pellegri, Rosario Tumino, Riccardo Capocaccia, and Milena Sant
  Looking at differences in stage and treatment of colorectal cancers across Italy: a EUROCARE-5 high resolution study
  Tumori 2012; 98: 671-677

CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

• Anastasios Kanatas, Galina Velikova, Brenda Roe, Kieran Horgan, Naseem Ghazali, Richard J Shaw, and Simon N Rogers
  Patient-reported outcomes in breast oncology: a review of validated outcome instruments
  Tumori 2012; 98: 678-688
• Federica Grosso, Mario Mandalà, Valeria Maglione, Laura Berretta, Narciso Mariani, Maura Rossi, Pier Luigi Piovano, Domenico Drago, Massimo Summa, Paola Franzone, Francesco Musante, and Giuseppe Spinoglio
  Neoadjuvant therapy and mini-invasive total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: feasibility and outcome analysis from a single institution prospectively collected data base
  Tumori 2012; 98: 689-695
• Marco Montanari, Francesco Fabbri, Ermanno Rondini, Giovanni Luca Frassineti, Rodolfo Mattioli, Silvia Carloni, Emanuela Scarpi, Wainer Zoli, Dino Amadori, and Giorgio Cruciani
  Phase II trial of non-pegylated liposomal doxorubicin and low-dose prednisone in second-line chemotherapy for hormone-refractory prostate cancer
  Tumori 2012; 98: 696-701
• Stefano Ferrari, Emanuela Palmerini, Nicola Fabbri, Eric Staals, Cristina Ferrari, Marco Alberghini, and Piero Picci
  Osteosarcoma of the pelvis: a monoinstitutional experience in patients younger than 41 years
  Tumori 2012; 98: 702-708

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

• Nam P Nguyen, Misty Ceizyk, Vincent Vinh-Hung, Thomas Sroka, Siyoung Jang, Rihan Khan, Angela Locke, Gabby Albala, Christina Truong, Juan Godinez, Richard Vo, and Lexie Smith-Raymond
  Feasibility of tomotherapy to reduce cochlea radiation dose in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer
  Tumori 2012; 98: 709-714
• Roberto Orecchia, Barbara A Jereczek-Fossa, Elena Rondi, Isa Bossi-Zanetti, Ilaria Meaglia, Rosa Luraschi, Maria Cristina Leonardi, Nicole Rotmensz, Edoardo Botteri, Cristiana Fodor, Agnese Cecconi, Anna Morra, Roberta Lazzari, Annamaria Ferrari, Federica Cattani, Viviana Galimberti, Alberto Luini, Paolo Veronesi, Stefano Zurrida, Stefano Magrini, Wolfgang Doerr, Nicole Humble, Klaus R Trott, Andrea Ottolenghi, Vere Smyth, and Umberto Veronesi
  Second malignancies following breast cancer treatment: a case-control study based on the Peridose methodology. ALLEGRO project (task 5.4)
  Tumori 2012; 98: 715-721
• Angelo Maggio, Rocco Panaia, Elisabetta Garibaldi, Sara Bresciani, Giuseppe Malinverni, Michele Stasi, and Pietro Gabriele
  Impact of age at diagnosis on overall and disease-free survival in men with prostate cancer following conformal 3D radiation therapy
  Tumori 2012; 98: 722-727
• Silvia Scoccianti, Benedetta Agresti, Gabriele Simontacchi, Beatrice Detti, Samantha Cipressi, Alberto Iannalfi, Livia Marrazzo, Monica Mangoni, Fabiola Paiar, Lorenzo Livi, and Giampaolo Biti
  From a waiting list to a priority list: a computerized model for an easy-to-manage and automatically updated priority list in the booking of patients waiting for radiotherapy
  Tumori 2012; 98: 728-735
• Yan-jun Zhang, Lei Liu, Lin Ma, Wei Yu, Mei Liu, Liu-quan Cheng, Jie Li, Yi-qiong Zheng, Jian-dong Wang, Qing-long Kong, and Xi-ru Li
  Intraoperative radiotherapy in patients with breast cancer treated by breast-conserving therapy
  Tumori 2012; 98: 736-742

PROGNOSTIC FACTORS

• Laura Cortesi, Elisabetta De Matteis, Claudia Cirilli, Luigi Marcheselli, Manuela Proietto, and Massimo Federico
  Outcome evaluation in pre-trastuzumab era between different breast cancer phenotypes: a population-based study on Italian women
  Tumori 2012; 98: 743-750
• Yan-bin Chen, Chuan-Yong Mu, and Jian-An Huang
  Clinical significance of programmed death-1 ligand-1 expression in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a 5-year-follow-up study
  Tumori 2012; 98: 751-755
• Federica Bertolini, Elena Zunarelli, Caterina Baraldi, Antonella Valentini, Cinzia Del Giovane, Roberta Depenni, Angelo Falasca, Patrizia Giacobazzi, Marcella Malagoli, Stefano Meletti, Annalisa Fontana, and PierFranco Conte on behalf of the Gruppo Neuro Oncologico Modena (GNO-MO)
  Survival in patients with newly diagnosed conventional glioblastoma: a modified prognostic score based on a single-institution series
  Tumori 2012; 98: 756-761
• Daye Cheng, Bin Liang, and Yunhui Li
  Clinical value of vascular endothelial growth factor and endostatin in urine for diagnosis of bladder cancer
  Tumori 2012; 98: 762-767
• Emmanouil Fokas, Martin Henzel, Klaus Hamm, Steffen Grund, and Rita Engenhart-Cabillic
  Brain metastases in breast cancer: analysis of the role of HER2 status and treatment in the outcome of 94 patients
  Tumori 2012; 98: 768-774

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

• Rosario Francesco Grasso, Giacomo Luppi, Roberto Luigi Cazzato, Eliodoro Faiella, Francesco D'Agostino, Daniela Beomonte Zobel, and Mario De Lena
  Percutaneous computed tomography-guided lung biopsies: preliminary results using an augmented reality navigation system
  Tumori 2012; 98: 775-782

LABORATORY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

• Ning Wang, Yang Chen, Yuchen Han, Yue Zhao, Yu Liu, Kejian Guo, and Yi Jiang
  Proteomic analysis shows down-regulations of cytoplasmic carbonic anhydrases, CAI and CAII, are early events of colorectal carcinogenesis but are not correlated with lymph node metastasis
  Tumori 2012; 98: 783-791
• Yanan Wang, Jinfang Shi, Yuanjian Wu, Weidong Xu, Qinxi Wang, Jing Zhang, Min Jiang, and Guohao Gu
  Use of Luminex xMAP bead-based suspension array for detecting microRNA in NSCLC tissues and its clinical application
  Tumori 2012; 98: 792-799
• Bo Zhang, Hong Shan, Dan Li, Zheng-ran Li, Kang-shun Zhu, Zai-bo Jiang, and Ming-sheng Huang
  Different methods of detaching adherent cells significantly affect the detection of TRAIL receptors
  Tumori 2012; 98: 800-803
• Zhiping Zhang, Zhou Wang, Xiangyan Liu, Jie Wang, Feng Li, Changling Li, and Baozhong Shan
  Up-regulation of p21 ^WAF1/CIP1 by small activating RNA inhibits the in vitro and in vivo growth of pancreatic cancer cells
  Tumori 2012; 98: 804-811

ONLINE ONLY ARTICLES: SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• Min Sung Kim, Sung Soo Kim, Nam Jin Yoo, and Sug Hyung Lee
  Rare somatic mutation of pro-apoptotic BAX and BAK genes in common human cancers
  Tumori 2012; 98: e149-e151
• Enrico Aitini, Paola Bordi, Chiara Dell'Agnola, Elisa Fontana, Wanda Liguigli, and Federico Quaini
  Narrative literature and cancer: improving the doctor-patient relationship
  Tumori 2012; 98: e152-e154

ONLINE ONLY ARTICLES: CASE REPORTS

• Massimo Cirillo, Mariella Musola, Paola Agnese Cassandrini, Gianluigi Lunardi, and Marco Venturini
  Irinotecan during pregnancy in metastatic colon cancer
  Tumori 2012; 98: e155-e157
• Wha-Yong Lee, Jack Kastelik, Anne Campbell, Ged Avery, Damian McGivern, and Mike Lind
  A case report of dermatomyositis associated with small cell lung cancer
  Tumori 2012; 98: e158-e161
• Ahmet Alacacioglu, Serkan Unal, Selin Canpolat, Alaattin Yurt, Ozgur Oztekin, Ali Coskun, Ayse Karatas, Hakan Postaci, and Gulten Sop
  Breast metastasis of anaplastic oligodendroglioma: a case report
  Tumori 2012; 98: e162-e164
• Ji-Gang Wang, Yu-Jun Li, Hui Liu, and Peng Zhao
  Primary cardiac myxofibrosarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
  Tumori 2012; 98: e165-e168
• Taiji Kuwata, Teruo Iwata, Takashi Iwanami, and Makoto Kawaguchi
  Surgical resection of a metastatic skull tumor from lung cancer
  Tumori 2012; 98: e169-e171
• Maurizio Valeriani, Linda Agolli, Teresa Falco, Mattia Falchetto Osti, Vitaliana De Sanctis, and Riccardo Maurizi Enrici
  A case report of metastatic atypical thymic carcinoid with ectopic ACTH production: locoregional control after adaptive radiation treatment
  Tumori 2012; 98: e172-e175
• Rut Isacson, Amiel Segal, Joseph Alberton, Constantin Reinus, Alon Schwarz, and Tal Grenader
  Abdominal cocoon: a potential pitfall in patients with ovarian carcinoma
  Tumori 2012; 98: e176-e178
• Arzu Okur, Faruk Guclu Pinarli, Ceyda Karadeniz, Aylar Poyraz, Kibriya Fidan, Can Basaklar, and Aynur Oguz
  Familial synchronous bilateral teratoid Wilms tumor with elevated alpha-fetoprotein level
  Tumori 2012; 98: e179-e182

Le Riviste

• TUMORI a Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology