TUMORI a Journal of Clinical and Experimental Oncology
Volume 93 - Number 2 March-April 2007

Abstract

EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Pierluigi Cocco, Maria G Ennas, Maria A Melis, Carla Sollaino, Stefania Collu, Domenica Fadda, Attilio Gabbas, Giovannino Massarelli, Marco Rais, Pierfelice Todde, and Emanuele Angelucci
  Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphism and lymphoma risk
  Tumori 2007; 93: 121-123
• Carla Fabbri, Alberto Ravaioli, Alessandra Ravaioli, Lauro Bucchi, Chiara Balducci, Debora Canuti, Franco Desiderio, Flavia Foca, Ilaria Panzini, and Fabio Falcini
  Risk of cancer of the prostate and of the kidney parenchyma following bladder cancer
  Tumori 2007; 93: 124-128

CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

• Tomo Osako, Yoshinori Ito, Shunji Takahashi, Nahomi Tokudome, Takuji Iwase, and Kiyohiko Hatake
  Intermittent capecitabine monotherapy with lower dose intensity in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic breast cancer
  Tumori 2007; 93: 129-132
• Enrico Cortesi, Luca Moscetti, Fabrizio Nelli, Filippo De Marinis, Ugo De Paula, Caterina Bangrazi, Maria Rita Migliorino, and Vittorio Donato
  Induction therapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin followed by hyperfractionated radiotherapy plus weekly concurrent chemotherapy and subsequent consolidation therapy in unresectable locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer
  Tumori 2007; 93: 133-137
• Marcello Tiseo, Olga Martelli, Andrea Mancuso, Maria Pia Sormani, Paolo Bruzzi, Roberto Di Salvia, Filippo De Marinis, and Andrea Ardizzoni
  Short hydration regimen and nephrotoxicity of intermediate to high-dose cisplatin-based chemotherapy for outpatient treatment in lung cancer and mesothelioma
  Tumori 2007; 93: 138-144
• Francesca Martella, Pier Giorgio Giannessi, Roberta Di Marsico, Luigi Coltelli, Valentina Safina, Nicola Giuntini, and Alfredo Falcone
  A pilot study of a day one and eight every three weeks administration of docetaxel in metastatic cancer patients
  Tumori 2007; 93: 145-149
• Manolo Piccirilli, Tanya Enny Sassun, Christian Brogna, Felice Giangaspero, and Maurizio Salvati
  Late brain metastases from breast cancer: clinical remarks on 11 patients and review of the literature
  Tumori 2007; 93: 150-154
• Massimo Martino, Francesca Luise, Vincenzo Oriana, Giuseppe Console, Tiziana Moscato, Corrado Mammì, Giuseppe Messina, Elisabetta Massara, Giuseppe Irrera, Angela Piromalli, Vincenzo Trapani Lombardo, Carmelo Laganà, and Pasquale Iacopino
  Utility of the clinical practice of admnistering thrombophilic screening and antithrombotic prophylaxis with low-molecular-weight heparin to healthy donors treated with G-CSF for mobilization of peripheral blood stem cells
  Tumori 2007; 93: 155-159

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

• Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Vincenzo Valentini, Claudio Coco, Alberto Manno, Giovanni B Doglietto, Carlo Ratto, Maurizio Cosimelli, Francesco Miccichè, Francesca Maurizi, Luca Tagliaferri, Giovanna Mantini, Mario Balducci, Giuseppe La Torre, Brunella Barbaro, and Aurelio Picciocchi
  Sphincter preservation in four consecutive phase II studies of preoperative chemoradiation: analysis of 247 T3 rectal cancer patients
  Tumori 2007; 93: 160-169

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

• Renato Marchesini, Aldo Bono, Stefano Tomatis, Cesare Bartoli, Ambrogio Colombo, Manuela Lualdi, and Mauro Carrara
  In vivo evaluation of melanoma thickness by multispectral imaging and an artificial neural network. A retrospective study on 250 cases of cutaneous melanoma
  Tumori 2007; 93: 170-179
• Hong Bang Shim, Sang Eun Lee, Hyoung Keun Park, and Ja Hyeon Ku
  Significance of suspicious lesions at transrectal ultrasonography in men with serum prostate-specific antigen levels of <20 ng/ml
  Tumori 2007; 93: 178-181

LABORATORY RESEARCH AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS

• Berrin Tunca, Levent Erisen, Hakan Coskun, Gulsah Cecener, Sema Ozuysal, and Unal Egeli
  P53 gene mutations in surgical margins and primary tumor tissues of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
  Tumori 2007; 93: 182-188
• Paulina Athanassiadou, Athanasios Bantis , Maria Gonidi, Peter Athanassiades, Eleni Agelonidou, Dimitra Grapsa, Polyxeni Nikolopoulou, and Efstratios Patsouris
  The expression of metallothioneins on imprint smears of prostate carcinoma: correlation with clinicopathologic parameters and tumor proliferative capacity
  Tumori 2007; 93: 189-194
• Nam Jin Yoo, Young Hwa Soung, Sang Hak Lee, Eun Goo Jeong, and Sug Hyung Lee
  Mutational analysis of the BH3 domains of proapoptotic Bcl-2 family genes Bad, Bmf and Bcl-G in laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas
  Tumori 2007; 93: 195-197

CASE REPORTS AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• Brian R Gannon, David F Dexter, Dimitri Petsikas, and Phillip A Isotalo
  Case 1 - Mediastinal thymolipoma: a rare occurrence with striated myoid cells
  Tumori 2007; 93: 198-200
• Emilio Bajetta, Giuseppe Procopio, Elena Verzoni, Laura Catena, Sara De Dosso, Marco Platania, and Arpine Gevorgyan
  Case 2 - Renal cell cancer and sorafenib: skin toxicity and treatment outcome
  Tumori 2007; 93: 201-203
• Maria Ornella Nicoletto, Martin Donach, Lucia Borgato, Cristina Falci, Lucia Zanin, and Giovanni De Masi
  Case 3 - Lack of cardiotoxicity with liposomal doxorubicin in an elderly case of ovarian cancer
  Tumori 2007; 93: 204-206
• Giuseppe Messina, Eugenia Quartarone, Giuseppe Console, Giuseppe Irrera, Massimo Martino, Giulia Pucci, Emilio Le Piane, Damiano Branca, Francesco Cafarelli, Antonio Gangemi, and Pasquale Iacopino
  Case 4 - Wernicke's encephalopathy after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
  Tumori 2007; 93: 207-209
• Kristina Potocki, Maja Prutki, Marko Kralik, Maja Hrabak, and Ranka Stern Padovan
  Case 5 - Ewing's sarcoma of the third metatarsal: a case report and review of the literature
  Tumori 2007; 93: 210-212
• Tommaso Cioppa, Daniele Marrelli, Alessandro Neri, Valeria Malagnino, Stefano Caruso, Enrico Pinto, and Franco Roviello
  Case 6 - Primary osteosarcoma of the kidney with retroperitoneal hemorrhage. Case report and review of the literature
  Tumori 2007; 93: 213-216
• Daniele Pozzessere, Elena Zafarana, Anna Maria Buccoliero, Chiara Pratesi, Rossana Fargnoli, and Angelo Di Leo
  Case 7 - Gastric cancer metastatic to the pituitary gland: a case report
  Tumori 2007; 93: 217-219
• Teresa Rosanna Portale, Francesco Mosca, Salvatore Vicari, Giuseppa Pulvirenti, Simona Fichera, Edvige Salomone, and Stefano Puleo
  Case 8 - Myoepithelial hamartoma of the stomach simulating a gastric carcinoma. A case report
  Tumori 2007; 93: 220-222
• José I López
  Case 9 - Adult-type granulosa cell tumor of the testis. Report of a case
  Tumori 2007; 93: 223-224
• Irina Sosnovskikh, Paola Naninato, Giovanna Gatti, Pietro Caldarella, Michele Masullo, Luciana Lima De Brito, and Alberto Luini
  Case 10 - Synchronous bilateral breast cancer in men: a case report and review of the literature
  Tumori 2007; 93: 225-227

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Roberto Boffi, Cinzia De Marco, Roberto Mazza, Edoardo Rossetti, Ario Ruprecht, Ivan Pozzati, and Giovanni Invernizzi
  Big tobacco and moto-GP: why no warnings on the motorcycles?
  Tumori 2007; 93: 228-229
• Eugenia Quartarone, Alessandro Allegra, Andrea Alonci, Giuseppe Toscano, Giacomo Bellomo, Elisabetta Corigliano, Vittorio Del Fabro, and Caterina Musolino
  Imatinib mesylate treatment in a patient with chemoresistant Ph+ acute myeloid leukemia: possible role of Wilms' tumor gene 1
  Tumori 2007; 93: 230-231
• H Cuneyt Ulutin
  Radiation injury to blood vessels
  Tumori 2007; 93: 232
• Franca Bilora, Francesco Pietrogrande, Francesco Petrobelli, Giuliana Polato, Fabio Pomerri, and Pier Carlo Muzzio
  In reply
  Tumori 2007; 93: 232
• Book reviews
  Tumori 2007; 93: 233

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