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Volume 5, Supplement 7 - 31 July 2006

Volume 5
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28 July 2006

Sandy Van
Synthetic version of scorpion venom delivers radioactive iodine to malignant brain tumors
EurekAlert!, 28 July 2006
News

Adam N. Mamelak, Steven Rosenfeld, Richard Bucholz, Andrew Raubitschek, L. Burt Nabors, John B. Fiveash, Sui Shen, M.B. Khazaeli, David Colcher, An Liu, Medhat Osman, Bart Guthrie, Susan Schade-Bijur, Diana M. Hablitz, Vernon L. Alvarez, Matthew A. Gonda
Phase I Single-Dose Study of Intracavitary-Administered Iodine-131-TM-601 in Adults With Recurrent High-Grade Glioma
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 22 (August 1), 2006: pp. 3644-3650
, DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.05.4569


27 July 2006

Bonnie Kourvelas
Anemic children with cancer benefit from erythropoietin
EurekAlert!, 27 July 2006
News

Bassem I. Razzouk, Jeffrey D. Hord, Marilyn Hockenberry, Pamela S. Hinds, James Feusner, Denise Williams, Wayne R. Rackoff
Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Quality of Life, Hematologic End Points, and Safety of Weekly Epoetin Alfa in Children With Cancer Receiving Myelosuppressive Chemotherapy
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 22 (August 1), 2006: pp. 3583-3589, DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.4371


25 July 2006

Carola Frediani
A second DNA code
(News in Italian)
Corriere della Sera, 25 July 2006
News

Eran Segal, Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Lingyi Chen, AnnChristine Thåström2, Yair Field, Irene K. Moore, Ji-Ping Z. Wang and Jonathan Widom
A genomic code for nucleosome positioning
Nature advance online publication 19 July 2006; doi:10.1038/nature04979


19 July 2006

Heidi Hardman
Possible birthplace of malignant brain tumors identified
EurekAlert!, 19 July 2006
News

Erica L. Jackson, Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo, Sara Gil-Perotin, Monica Roy, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Scott VandenBerg and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
PDGFRα-Positive B Cells Are Neural Stem Cells in the Adult SVZ that Form Glioma-like Growths in Response to Increased PDGF Signaling Neuron, Volume 51, Issue 2, 20 July 2006, Pages 187-199; doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.06.012 ; Available online 19 July 2006


18 July 2006

Ariel Whitworth
Dietary modifications may not benefit cancer patients
News

John A. Baron
(Nutritional) Chemoprevention of Cancer: What's Up?
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 98, No. 14, 945-946, July 19, 2006
; DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj293

Anna A. Davies, George Davey Smith, Roger Harbord, Geertruida E. Bekkering, Jonathan A. C. Sterne, Rebecca Beynon, Steven Thomas
Nutritional Interventions and Outcome in Patients With Cancer or Preinvasive Lesions: Systematic Review
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 98, No. 14, 961-973, July 19, 2006
; DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj263

Wei-cheng You, Linda M. Brown, Lian Zhang, Ji-you Li, Mao-lin Jin, Yun-shen Chang, Jun-ling Ma, Kai-feng Pan, Wei-dong Liu, Yuanreng Hu, Susan Crystal-Mansour, David Pee, William J. Blot, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., Guang-wei Xu, Mitchell H. Gail
Randomized Double-Blind Factorial Trial of Three Treatments To Reduce the Prevalence of Precancerous Gastric Lesions
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 98, No. 14, 974-983, July 19, 2006
; DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj264

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Nancy R. Cook, ScD; I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD; J. Michael Gaziano, MD; David Gordon, MA; Paul M Ridker, MD; JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH; Charles H. Hennekens, MD, DrPH; Julie E. Buring, ScD
Low-Dose Aspirin in the Primary Prevention of Cancer. The Women’s Health Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial
JAMA, Vol. 294 No. 1, July 6, 2005, Pages 47-55

Eric J. Jacobs, PhD; Michael J. Thun, MD
Low-Dose Aspirin and Vitamin E. Challenges and Opportunities in Cancer Prevention
JAMA, 2005;294:105-106; Vol. 294 No. 1, July 6, 2005


I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD; Nancy R. Cook, ScD; J. Michael Gaziano, MD; David Gordon, MA; Paul M Ridker, MD; JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH; Charles H. Hennekens, MD, DrPH; Julie E. Buring, ScD
Vitamin E in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer. The Women’s Health Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial
JAMA, 2005;294:56-65; Vol. 294 No. 1, July 6, 2005


17 July 2006

Franklin Hoke
Structure Determined for p53 Tumor Suppressor Protein as Bound to DNA for Anti-Cancer Activity
The Wistar Institute, News Releases, July 17, 2006
News
William C. Ho, Mary X. Fitzgerald, and Ronen Marmorstein
Structure of the p53 Core Domain Dimer Bound to DNA
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 29, 20494-20502, July 21, 2006
; Originally published as doi:10.1074/jbc.M603634200 on May 22, 2006


Published in July 2006

Denise D. Correa, Lisa M. DeAngelis, Weiji Shi, Howard T. Thaler, Michael Lin and Lauren E. Abrey
Cognitive functions in low-grade gliomas: disease and treatment effects
J Neurooncol. 2006 Jul 19; [Epub ahead of print]

Marica Eoli, Lorena Bissola, Maria Grazia Bruzzone, Bianca Pollo, Carmelo Maccagnano, Tiziana De Simone, Lorella Valletta, Antonio Silvani, D Bianchessi, Giovanni Broggi, Amerigo Boiardi, Gaetano Finocchiaro
Reclassification of oligoastrocytomas by loss of heterozygosity studies
Int J Cancer. 2006 Jul 1;119(1):84-90; Published Online: 23 Jan 2006; DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21759

E Ferretti, L Di Marcotullio, M Gessi, T Mattei, A Greco, A Po, E De Smaele, F Giangaspero, R Riccardi, C Di Rocco, S Pazzaglia, M Maroder, M Alimandi, I Screpanti and A Gulino
Alternative splicing of the ErbB-4 cytoplasmic domain and its regulation by hedgehog signaling identify distinct medulloblastoma subsets
Oncogene advance online publication 31 July 2006; doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209716

Ian F. Pollack, Ronald L. Hamilton, Robert W. Sobol, Judith Burnham, Allan J. Yates, Emiko J. Holmes, Tianni Zhou, Jonathan L. Finlay
O6-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase Expression Strongly Correlates With Outcome in Childhood Malignant Gliomas: Results From the CCG-945 Cohort
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 21 (July 20), 2006: pp. 3431-3437
; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.05.7265

Mati Rahu, Kaja Rahu, Anssi Auvinen, Mare Tekkel, Aivars Stengrevics, Timo Hakulinen, John D. Boice Jr, Peter D. Inskip
Cancer risk among chernobyl cleanup workers in Estonia and Latvia, 1986-1998
Int J Cancer. 2006 Jul 1;119(1):162-8; Published Online: 23 Jan 2006; DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21733

 

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