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  1. The lipid and glucose metabolisms are postulated as possible intermediary mechanisms in linking obesity and breast cancer (BC). Links between serum lipid and glucose biomarkers and BC risk has been observed in...

    Authors: Jennifer C Melvin, Hans Garmo, Lars Holmberg, Niklas Hammar, Göran Walldius, Ingmar Jungner, Mats Lambe and Mieke Van Hemelrijck
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:246
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  2. Central nervous system (CNS) brain metastasis of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients confers a worse quality of life and prognosis. The efficacy comparison of two first-generation epidermal gr...

    Authors: Meng-Xia Li, Hao He, Zhi-Hua Ruan, Yu-Xi Zhu, Rong-Qing Li, Xiao He, Bao-Hua Lan, Zhi-Min Zhang, Guo-Dong Liu, Hua-Liang Xiao, Yan Wu, Bo Zhu, Ge Wang and Zhen-Zhou Yang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:245
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  3. A new staging system recently proposed by the IGCA has demonstrated a better capacity of stratifying different prognoses for gastric cancer than the 7th edition AJCC staging system (AJCC7). The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Ping Shu, Jing Qin, Kuntang Shen, Weidong Chen, Fenglin Liu, Yong Fang, Xuefei Wang, Hongshan Wang, Zhenbin Shen, Yihong Sun and Xinyu Qin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:238
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  4. Although the significance of preoperative nutritional status has been investigated, there is no report regarding the relationship of their postoperative changes on outcomes in patients who underwent radical cy...

    Authors: Makito Miyake, Yosuke Morizawa, Shunta Hori, Nagaaki Marugami, Keiji Shimada, Daisuke Gotoh, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Yasushi Nakai, Takeshi Inoue, Satoshi Anai, Kazumasa Torimoto, Katsuya Aoki, Nobumichi Tanaka and Kiyohide Fujimoto
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:237
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:353

  5. Distinct characteristic features categorize Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) into two subgroups according to the Merkel cell polyomavirus infection. Many mutational studies on MCC have been carried out in recent ye...

    Authors: Tuukka Veija, Virve Koljonen, Tom Bohling, Mia Kero, Sakari Knuutila and Virinder Kaur Sarhadi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:236
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  6. Expression and activity of heparanase, an endoglycosidase that cleaves heparan sulfate (HS) side chains of proteoglycans, is associated with progression and poor prognosis of many cancers which makes it an att...

    Authors: C. P. Baburajeev, Chakrabhavi Dhananjaya Mohan, Shobith Rangappa, Daniel J. Mason, Julian E. Fuchs, Andreas Bender, Uri Barash, Israel Vlodavsky, Basappa and Kanchugarakoppal S. Rangappa
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:235
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  7. Migration of cancer cell correlates with distant metastasis and local invasion, which are good targets for cancer treatment. An optically accessible device “TAXIScan” was developed, which provides considerably...

    Authors: Akira Yamauchi, Masahiro Yamamura, Naoki Katase, Masumi Itadani, Naoko Okada, Kayoko Kobiki, Masafumi Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi and Futoshi Kuribayashi
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:234
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  8. Recent investigations suggest role(s) of human arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 (NAT1) in breast cancer. Rat NAT2 is orthologous to human NAT1 and the gene products are functional homologs. We conducted in vivo st...

    Authors: Marcus W. Stepp, Mark A. Doll, David J. Samuelson, Mary Ann G. Sanders, J. Christopher States and David W. Hein
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:233
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  9. Clinical efficacy of the mTOR inhibitor everolimus is limited in breast cancer and regularly leads to side-effects including hyperglycemia. The AMPK inhibitor and anti-diabetic drug metformin may counteract ev...

    Authors: Gerke Ariaans, Mathilde Jalving, Emma Geertruida Elisabeth de Vries and Steven de Jong
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:232
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  10. Unexpected differences in Ki-67 values among HER2 & ER/PgR defined subgroups were found. This study aims to detect possible subdivisions beyond the conventional breast cancer types.

    Authors: Sven Kurbel, Branko Dmitrović, Ksenija Marjanović, Damir Vrbanec and Antonije Juretić
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:231
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  11. Cervical squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) is the most frequent type among cervical cancers. Although the altered miRNA miR-30d expression and the amplified chromosome locus of MIR30D, 8q24, have been reported in...

    Authors: You Zhou, Yinghua Hao, Yuxia Li, Ruizhen Li, Ruifang Wu, Shubin Wang and Zhengyu Fang
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:230
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  12. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal malignancies today with an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies. Biomarker analysis helps to better understand tumor biology and might ...

    Authors: Felix C. Popp, Marie Christine Popp, Yue Zhao, Christopher Betzler, Siegfried Kropf, Benjamin Garlipp, Christoph Benckert, Thomas Kalinski, Hans Lippert and Christiane J. Bruns
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:229
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  13. Aberrant DNA methylation profiles are a characteristic of all known cancer types, epitomized by the CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) in colorectal cancer (CRC). Hypermethylation has been observed at CpG ...

    Authors: Tyler McInnes, Donghui Zou, Dasari S. Rao, Francesca M. Munro, Vicky L. Phillips, John L. McCall, Michael A. Black, Anthony E. Reeve and Parry J. Guilford
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:228
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  14. Negative lymph node (NLN) count has been reported to provide more accurate prognostic information than the N stage alone in patients with rectal cancer (RC). Since preoperative radiotherapy (Pre-RT) can signif...

    Authors: Xinxing Li, Hao Lu, Kai Xu, Haolu Wang, Xiaowen Liang and Zhiqian Hu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:227
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  15. BMI has been suggested to impact on estrogenic activity in patients receiving anastrozole resulting in a reduced treatment efficacy in obese women. Current evidence in this regard is controversially discussed....

    Authors: A. Oberguggenberger, V. Meraner, M. Sztankay, B. Beer, G. Weigel, H. Oberacher, G. Kemmler, T. Czech, B. Holzner, L. Wildt, B. Sperner-Unterweger, M. Daniaux and M. Hubalek
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:226
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  16. Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) metastasis to the facial skeleton is exceedingly rare. A case of FTC metastasizing to the mandible is presented and a systematic review of the literature describing thyroid m...

    Authors: Varun V. Varadarajan, Elizabeth K. Pace, Vatsal Patel, Raja Sawhney, Robert J. Amdur and Peter T. Dziegielewski
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:225
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Case management has been shown to be beneficial in phases of cancer screening and treatment. After treatment is completed, patients experience a loss of support due to reduced contact with medical professional...

    Authors: Nathalie Scherz, Irène Bachmann-Mettler, Corinne Chmiel, Oliver Senn, Nathalie Boss, Katarina Bardheci and Thomas Rosemann
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:223
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  19. ATP-binding cassette sub-family G member 2 (ABCG2) is a semi-transport protein that plays a major role in multidrug resistance. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of ABCG2 expression in patients wit...

    Authors: Haofei Wang, Fangxiu Luo, Zhe Zhu, Zhaoping Xu, Xin Huang, Renyi Ma, Hongchao He, Yu Zhu, Kun Shao and Juping Zhao
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:222
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  21. Colorectal cancer is a major public health issue worldwide. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) and Th17 (T-helper cell type 17)-related molecules are involved in tumor development and in resistance to bevacizumab, an anti...

    Authors: Emilie Lereclus, Mira Tout, Alban Girault, Nadine Baroukh, Morgane Caulet, Christophe Borg, Olivier Bouché, David Ternant, Gilles Paintaud, Thierry Lecomte and William Raoul
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:220
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  22. Tumour stem cells are considered important to promote disease progression, recurrence and treatment resistance following chemotherapy in colon cancer. However, genomic analyses of colorectal cancer have mainly...

    Authors: Diana Cervantes-Madrid, Yvonne Wettergren, Peter Falk, Kent Lundholm and Annika G. Asting
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:219
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  23. Cancer-related fatigue is a common problem in persons with cancer, influencing health-related quality of life and causing a considerable challenge to society. Current evidence supports the beneficial effects o...

    Authors: Sveinung Berntsen, Neil K Aaronson, Laurien Buffart, Sussanne Börjeson, Ingrid Demmelmaier, Maria Hellbom, Pernille Hojman, Helena Igelström, Birgitta Johansson, Ronnie Pingel, Truls Raastad, Galina Velikova, Pernilla Åsenlöf and Karin Nordin
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:218
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  24. This study aimed to analyze the pattern of lymphogenous and hematogenous metastases in patients with stage IVb thymic carcinomas and identify prognostic factors for their survivals.

    Authors: Yu Yang, Xing-Wen Fan, Hong-Bing Wang, Yin Xu, Dou-Dou Li and Kai-Liang Wu
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:217
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  25. Former studies already revealed the anti-neoplastic properties of the anti-infective agent Taurolidine (TRD) against many tumor species in vitro and in vivo. Its anti-proliferative and cell death inducing capacit...

    Authors: M. Buchholz, B. Majchrzak-Stiller, S. Hahn, D. Vangala, R. W. Pfirrmann, W. Uhl, C. Braumann and A. M. Chromik
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:216
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  26. Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a B-cell malignancy in which clonal plasma cells progressively expand within the bone marrow (BM) as effect of complex interactions with extracellular matrix and a number of microenvir...

    Authors: S Ciavarella, A Laurenzana, S De Summa, B Pilato, A Chillà, R Lacalamita, C Minoia, F Margheri, A Iacobazzi, A Rana, F Merchionne, G Fibbi, M Del Rosso, A Guarini, S Tommasi and S Serratì
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:215
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  27. A high incidence of severe hematological adverse events during sunitinib treatment complicates decision making on dose and treatment cycle. We identified the characteristics of early-onset hematotoxicity of su...

    Authors: Renpei Kato, Yoichiro Kato, Tomohiko Matsuura, Mitsugu Kanehira, Ryo Takata and Wataru Obara
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:214
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  28. Accurate prognosticating is needed when patients are nearing the end of life to ensure appropriate treatment decisions, and facilitate palliative care provision and transitioning to terminal care. People with ...

    Authors: Elise Button, Raymond Javan Chan, Shirley Chambers, Jason Butler and Patsy Yates
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:213
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  29. We evaluated possible diagnostic and prognostic values of serum midkine in malignant pleural mesothelioma in comparison with those of serum mesothelin, a well-established diagnostic biomarker.

    Authors: Guntulu Ak, Yuji Tada, Hideaki Shimada, Selma Metintas, Masaaki Ito, Kenzo Hiroshima, Masatoshi Tagawa and Muzaffer Metintas
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:212
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  30. We designed a single-arm, open-label phase II trial of everolimus in PIK3CA amplification/mutation and/or PTEN loss patients with advanced solid tumors refractory to standard therapy (#NCT02449538).

    Authors: Seung Tae Kim, Jeeyun Lee, Se Hoon Park, Joon Oh Park, Young Suk Park, Won Ki Kang and Ho Yeong Lim
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:211
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  31. Accurate measurement of tumor burden in breast cancer disease is essential to improve the clinical management of patients. In this study, we evaluate whether the fluctuations in the fraction of PIK3CA mutant a...

    Authors: José Angel García-Saenz, Patricia Ayllón, Marion Laig, Daniel Acosta-Eyzaguirre, Marta García-Esquinas, Myriam Montes, Julián Sanz, Miguel Barquín, Fernando Moreno, Vanesa Garcia-Barberan, Eduardo Díaz-Rubio, Trinidad Caldes and Atocha Romero
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:210
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  32. The scientific and public debate concerning organized mammography screening is unprecedentedly strong. With research evidence concerning its efficacy being ambiguous, the recommendations pertaining to the age-...

    Authors: Nanon H. M. Labrie, Ramona Ludolph and Peter J. Schulz
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:209
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  33. In definitive radiation therapy for head and neck cancer, clinically uninvolved cervical lymph nodes are irradiated with a so-called ‘elective dose’ in order to achieve control of clinically occult metastases....

    Authors: Sven van den Bosch, Tim Dijkema, Martina C. Kunze-Busch, Chris H. J. Terhaard, Cornelis P. J. Raaijmakers, Patricia A. H. Doornaert, Frank J. P. Hoebers, Marije R. Vergeer, Bas Kreike, Oda B. Wijers, Wim J. G. Oyen and Johannes H. A. M. Kaanders
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:208
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  34. Although meningioma is a common disease, there is a lack of understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms behind its initiation and progression. We used combined miRNA-mRNA transcriptome analysis to dis...

    Authors: Altay Burak Dalan, Sukru Gulluoglu, Emre Can Tuysuz, Aysegul Kuskucu, Cumhur Kaan Yaltirik, Oguz Ozturk, Ugur Ture and Omer Faruk Bayrak
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:207
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  35. Autotransplantation of frozen-thawed ovarian tissue is a method to preserve ovarian function and fertility in patients undergoing gonadotoxic therapy. In oncology patients, the safety cannot yet be guaranteed,...

    Authors: Inge T. A. Peters, Merle A. van der Steen, Bertine W. Huisman, Carina G. J .M. Hilders, Vincent T. H. B. M. Smit, Alexander L. Vahrmeijer, Cornelis F. M. Sier, J. Baptist Trimbos and Peter J. K. Kuppen
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:206
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  37. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common, invasive and deadly primary type of malignant brain tumor. The Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase/AKT (PI3K/AKT) pathway is highly active in GBM and has been associ...

    Authors: Ravi S. Narayan, Carlos A. Fedrigo, Eelke Brands, Rogier Dik, Lukas J.A. Stalpers, Brigitta G. Baumert, Ben J. Slotman, Bart A. Westerman, Godefridus J. Peters and Peter Sminia
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:204
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  38. About 75–80% of breast tumors express the estrogen receptor alpha (ER-α) and are treated with endocrine-target therapeutics, making this the premier therapeutic modality in the breast cancer clinic. However, a...

    Authors: Mercè Padró, Raymond J. Louie, Brian V. Lananna, Adam J. Krieg, Luika A. Timmerman and Denise A. Chan
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:203
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  39. Tumour metastasis remains the major cause of death in cancer patients and, to date, the mechanism and signalling pathways governing this process are not completely understood. The TGF-β pathway is the most com...

    Authors: Jo-Anne de la Mare, Tamarin Jurgens and Adrienne L. Edkins
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:202
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  40. Y-box binding protein-1 is an evolutionary conserved transcription and translation regulating protein that is overexpressed in various human malignancies, including breast cancer. Despite reports of YB-1 and i...

    Authors: Jia Pei Lim, Sukanya Shyamasundar, Jayantha Gunaratne, Olivia Jane Scully, Ken Matsumoto and Boon Huat Bay
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:201
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  41. Aprepitant is an FDA-approved medication for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. It blocks substance P binding to neurokinin-1; substance P has been implicated in itch pathways both as a local and global...

    Authors: Johanna S. Song, Marianne Tawa, Nicole G. Chau, Thomas S. Kupper and Nicole R. LeBoeuf
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:200
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  42. Approximately 18–20% of all human breast cancers have overexpressed human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). Standard clinical practice is to treat only overexpressed HER2 (HER2+) cancers with targeted...

    Authors: Yao Huang, David J. Burns, Benjamin E. Rich, Ian A. MacNeil, Abhijit Dandapat, Sajjad M. Soltani, Samantha Myhre, Brian F. Sullivan, Carol A. Lange, Leo T. Furcht and Lance G. Laing
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:199
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  43. Median age at diagnosis of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is > 70 years. However, the majority of clinical trials do not reflect the demographics of CLL patients treated in the community. We ...

    Authors: Chadi Nabhan, Anthony Mato, Christopher R. Flowers, David L. Grinblatt, Nicole Lamanna, Mark A. Weiss, Matthew S. Davids, Arlene S. Swern, Shriya Bhushan, Kristen Sullivan, E. Dawn Flick, Pavel Kiselev and Jeff P. Sharman
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:198
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  44. Collision tumors are uncommon but well described clinical entities composed of distinct tumor histologies occurring within the same anatomic site. Optimal management of patients with collision tumors remains h...

    Authors: Munveer S. Bhangoo, Jenny Y. Zhou, Siraj M. Ali, Russell Madison, Alexa B. Schrock and Carrie Costantini
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:197
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  45. Authors: Debra Anderson, Charrlotte Seib, Dian Tjondronegoro, Jane Turner, Leanne Monterosso, Amanda McGuire, Janine Porter-Steele, Wei Song, Patsy Yates, Neil King, Leonie Young, Kate White, Kathryn Lee, Sonj Hall, Mei Krishnasamy, Kathy Wells…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:196
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:98

  46. Authors: Rumyana Ivanova Dodova, Atanaska Velichkova Mitkova, Daniela Rosenova Dacheva, Lina Basam Hadjo, Alexandrina Ivanova Vlahova, Margarita Stoyanova Taushanova – Hadjieva, Spartak Stoyanov Valev, Marija Mitko Caulevska, Stanislava Dimitrova Popova, Ivan Emilov Popov, Tihomir Iliichev Dikov, Theophil Angelov Sedloev, Atanas Stefanov Ionkov, Konstanta Velinova Timcheva, Svetlana Liubomirova Christova, Ivo Marinov Kremensky…
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:195
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Cancer 2015 15:523

  47. Breast cancer is the main cause of mortality among women. The disease presents high recurrence mainly due to incomplete efficacy of primary treatment in killing all cancer cells. Photodynamic therapy (PDT), an...

    Authors: Ancély F. dos Santos, Letícia F. Terra, Rosangela A. M. Wailemann, Talita C. Oliveira, Vinícius de Morais Gomes, Marcela Franco Mineiro, Flávia Carla Meotti, Alexandre Bruni-Cardoso, Maurício S. Baptista and Leticia Labriola
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:194
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  48. This RCT with two parallel arms will evaluate the efficacy of an internet-delivered transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) intervention for the treatment of clinical depression and/or anxiety in ...

    Authors: M. J. Murphy, J. M. Newby, P. Butow, L. Kirsten, K. Allison, S. Loughnan, M. A. Price, J. Shaw, H. Shepherd, J. Smith and G. Andrews
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:193
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Cancer 2017 17:667

  49. Renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) overexpress fatty acid binding protein 7 (FABP7). We chose to study the TUHR14TKB cell line, because it expresses higher levels of FABP7 than other cell lines derived from renal ca...

    Authors: Naohisa Takaoka, Tatsuya Takayama and Seiichiro Ozono
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:192
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  50. The inhibition of Delta-like 4 (Dll4)/Notch signaling has been shown to result in excessive, nonfunctional vessel proliferation and significant tumor growth suppression. However, safety concerns emerged with t...

    Authors: Alexandre Trindade, Dusan Djokovic, Joana Gigante, Liliana Mendonça and António Duarte
    Citation: BMC Cancer 2017 17:189
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