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Do Viruses Cause Breast Cancer
Because mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV; the Bittner virus) is the proven cause
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Immunologic Monitoring of Cancer Vaccine Trials Using the ELISPOT Assay
Cancer vaccines are designed to activate an immune response to tumor-specific or
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Monoclonal Antibodies: Generation and Clinical Use
Originally, the term “antibody” referred to an unknown entity in serum, which ha
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Adenovirus-Mediated Drug-Sensitivity Gene Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Selective gene therapy represents a potent approach in cancer treatment that uti
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Understanding Metastasis Through Integrin Expression
Integrins form a major family of heterodimeric cell surface receptors. Individua
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Circulating Tumor Cells as Prognostic Biomarkers in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients
Detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in peripheral blood has been investig
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Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization to Chromosomes
Development of the technique of in situ hybridization (ISH) propelled the merger
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Alterations in the Expression of Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins in Lung Canc
The insulin-like growth factors (IGF), named for their structural homology to pr
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Identification of Pancreatic Cancer-Specific Cell-Surface Markers for Development of Targeting Ligan
Pancreatic cancer is generally detected at later stages with a poor prognosis an
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Application of Phage Display to Discovery of Tumor-Specific Homing Peptides: Developing Strategies f
Selective delivery of drugs or imaging dyes to tumor is the central challenge fo
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Identification of Malignant Plasma Cells by mRNA In Situ Hybridization
Patients with multiple myeloma have a clonal proliferation of malignant plasma c
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Pharmacogenetics of ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters and Clinical Implications
Drug resistance is a severe limitation of chemotherapy of various malignancies.
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Mutational Analysis of Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes in Human Cancer Using Denaturing Gradien
Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) was introduced 20 years ago (1 )
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Promoter Methylation in Head and Neck Tumorigenesis
In addition to genetic alterations of gains and losses, epigenetic events of pro
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Microarray Approaches for Analysis of Tumor Suppressor Gene Function
Many tumor suppressor genes are known to function at least in part through regul
