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Volume 5, Supplement 10ter - 31 October 2006 |
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Juliette Savin
Increased risk of cancer for computer factory workers, large study shows EurekAlert, 18 October 2006 
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Mortality among US employees of a large computer manufacturing company: 1969–2001 Environ Health. 2006 Oct 19;5:30 
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Andrea Widener
Radiation increases risk of second primary tumors for childhood survivors EurekAlert, 31 October 2006
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P. Neglia, Leslie L. Robison, Marilyn Stovall, Yan Liu, Roger J. Packer, Sue
Hammond, Yutaka Yasui, Catherine E. Kasper, Ann C. Mertens, Sarah S. Donaldson,
Anna T. Meadows, and Peter D. Inskip New Primary Neoplasms of the Central Nervous System in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: a Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 Nov 1; 98: 1528-1537.
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Glioblastoma |
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A.M. Admirant, J. A. Hendricks, P.C. De Witt
Hamer, S. Leenstra, W.P. Vandertop, C.J.F. van Noorden, and J.P. Medema
Valproic Acid is toxic to malignant glioma cells and increases sensitivity to irradiation and chemotherapy Abstracts for the Seventh Congress of the European Association for Neuro-Oncology (EANO). Abstract No. P80. Neuro-Oncology, October 2006, Page 334. |
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Tracey Koepke
Cancer stem cells linked to radiation resistance EurekAlert, 18 October 2006
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Edward R. Winstead Cancer Stem Cells May Help Brain Tumors Survive Radiation NCI Cancer Bulletin, October 24, 2006 - Volume 3 / Number 41
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Nicola McCarthy
Tumour stem cells: Rooting out resistance Research Highlight, Nature Reviews Cancer 6, 904-905 (December 2006)
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| Etiology & Pathogenesis > Stem Cells | Treatment > Radioresistance | |
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Shideng
Bao, Qiulian Wu, Roger E. McLendon, Yueling Hao, Qing Shi, Anita B.
Hjelmeland, Mark W. Dewhirst, Darell D. Bigner and Jeremy N. Rich
Glioma stem cells promote radioresistance by preferential activation of the DNA damage response Nature advance online publication 18 October 2006
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Lynn Yarris
New Hope for Brain Cancer Therapy Science@Berkeley Lab, 26 October 2006 News
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Mina Nikanjam, Eleanor A.
Blakely, Kathleen A. Bjornstad, Xiao Shu, Thomas F. Budinger, Trudy M.
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| Treatment > Multifocal Tumor Recurrences / Tamoxifen | |
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Puchner MJ, Giese A, Lohmann F, Cristante L.
High-dose tamoxifen treatment increases the incidence of multifocal tumor recurrences in glioblastoma patients Anticancer Res. 2004 Nov-Dec;24(6):4195-203 
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Phase 2 trial of radiation plus high-dose tamoxifen for glioblastoma multiforme: RTOG protocol BR-0021 Neuro-Oncology, Volume 8, Number 1, January 2006, 47-52
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Jerry Barach
Killing brain tumors from within: A 'Trojan horse' approach EurekAlert, 24 October 2006
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Alexei Shir, Manfred Ogris, Ernst Wagner, Alexander
Levitzki
EGF Receptor-Targeted Synthetic Double-Stranded RNA Eliminates Glioblastoma, Breast Cancer, and Adenocarcinoma Tumors in Mice PLoS Med. 2006 Jan;3(1):e6. Epub 2005 Dec 6
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Gliomas (High-Grade) |
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Nancy Rose
New cancer-fighting virus kills invasive brain cells EurekAlert, 31 October 2006
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Effects of Intravenously Administered Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSVΔM51) on Multifocal and Invasive Gliomas Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 98, No. 21, 1546-1557, November 1, 2006
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Integrative Medicine |
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David Douglas
Aspirin curbs angiogenesis without COX inhibition OncoLink, 2 October 2006
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Therapeutic levels of aspirin and salicylate directly inhibit a model of angiogenesis through a Cox-independent mechanism The FASEB Journal. 2006 Oct;20:2009-2016
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Meningioma |
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Risk of Brain Tumors Associated with Exposure to Exogenous Female Sex Hormones Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Oct 1;164(7):629-36. Epub 2006 Jul 11
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J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
Survival probabilities (the Kaplan-Meier method) BMJ 1998;317:1572-1580 (5 December)
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John P. A. Ioannidis Why Most Published Research Findings Are False PLoS Medicine, Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2005
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Harvey Motulsky
Intuitive Biostatistics GraphPad Software  Extract
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Spotswood L. Spruance, Julia E. Reid, Michael
Grace, and Matthew Samore
Hazard Ratio in Clinical Trials Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, August 2004, p. 2787-2792, Vol. 48, No. 8
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