Cancer Control Journal

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Worfley P, Vaughan T, Davis S, et al. 1992. A case-control study of occupational risk factors for laryngeal cancer. British Journal of Industrial Medicine 49(12) 837-844. 

L. Breslow et al., Cancer Control Implications from Its History,"Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 59, pp. 671—686 (1977). 

Einarsson, R. (1995) TPS a cytokeratin marker for therapy control in breast cancer. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical Laboratory Investigation, 221 (Suppl.), 113 115. 

Bartek, J., Lukas, J., 8c Bartkova,J. (1999). Perspective Defects in cell cycle control and cancer. The Journal of Pathology, 187, 95—99. 

Liu, J., Zeng, F. and Allen, C., 2005. Influence of serum protein on polycarbonate-based copolymer micelles as a delivery system for a hydrophobic anti-cancer agent. Journal of Controlled Release, 103, 481 97. 

Lukyanov, A.N. et al., 2004. Tumor-targeted liposomes doxombicin-loaded long-circulating liposomes modified with anti-cancer antibody. Journal of Controlled Release, 100, 135-144. 

Dreher, M. R., Raucher, D., Balu, N., Colvin, O. M., Lndeman, S. M., Chilkoti, A. (2003). Evaluation of an elastin-like polypeptide-doxombicin conjugate for cancer therapy. Journal of Controlled Release, 91, 31-43. 

H. Chen, et al.. Preparation and characterization of PE38KDEL-loaded anti-HER2 nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy. Journal of Controlled Release, 128 (3) 209-216, 2008. 

Leiss, J. K., and D. A. Savitz. (1995). Home pesticide use and childhood-cancer A case control study. American Journal of Public Health 85(2) 249-252. Zahm, Sheila H., and Mary H. Ward. (1998). Pesticides and childhood cancer. Environmental Health Perspectives 106(Suppl. 3) 893-908. 

In 1981, two eminent British cancer experts. Sir Richard Doll and Richard Peto published a paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute entitled The causes of cancer Quantitative estimates of avoidable risks of cancer in the United States today. The authors drew upon a vast body of literature of the type mentioned above, and attempted to allocate the deaths caused by cancers among various responsible factors. The authors concluded that a certain percentage of human cancer deaths could be avoided if exposure to the responsible factors could be eliminated or controlled in some way, although the appropriate degree and nature of control for some of the lifestyle factors, especially diet, is still highly uncertain. The Doll and Peto estimates are presented in Table 5.2. The factors are listed in a somewhat different order from how they were listed by the original authors, because of our interest in clearly separating lifestyle factors (the first... 

Ijsselmuiden CB, Gaydos C, Feighner B, et al. 1992. Cancer of the pancreas and drinking water A population based case control study in Washington County, Maryland. American Journal of Epidemiology 136(7) 836-842. 

McGeehin MA, Reif JS, Becher JC, et al. 1993. Case control study of bladder cancer and water disinfection methods in Colorado. American Journal of Epidemiology 138(7) 493-501. 

Athens W, Jockel K, Patzak W, et al 1991. Alcohol, smoking, and occupational factors in cancer of the larynx A case-control study. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 20(4) 477-493. 

Crawford ED, Eisenberger MA, McLoed DG, Spaulding JT et al. (1989) A controlled trial of leuprolide with and without flutamide in prostatic cancer New England Journal of Medicine, 321, 419 24... 

The editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) commented on an article that showed that plasma DDE levels in breast cancer patients from several states in this country were not significantly different from levels in control patients.48 Similar results have been reported in other studies,49 and my final comments pointed out that it is incumbent on scientists, the media, legislators, and regulators to distinguish between scientific evidence and hypothesis, and not to allow a paparazzi science approach to these problems. The editors received several negative reactions to my article and these included complaints that I had not disclosed my financial interests. 

Surprisingly, studies show pain caused by cancer or other terminal disease is often undertreated. Even though the World Health Organization has shown that more than 90% of such pain can be effectively controlled with good pain management, patients who need relief the most are often among those least likely to receive it. In a 1998 study published in the Journal of... 

Heinonen OP, Albanes D, Virtamo J, Taylor PR, Huttunen JK, Hartman AM, Haapakoski J, Malila N, Rautalahti M, Ripatti S, Maenpaa H, Teerenhovi L, Koss L, Virolainen M, and Edwards BK (1998) Prostate cancer and supplementation with alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene incidence and mortality in a controlled trial. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 90, 440-6. 

Peto R et al 2000 Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950 combination of national statistics with two case-control studies. British Medical Journal 321 323-329. 

Greagan ET, Moertel GG, O FaUon JR, Schutt AJ, O CormeU MJ, Rubin J, and Frytak S (1979) Failure of high-dose vitamin C (ascorbic acid) therapy to benefit patients with advanced cancer. A controlled trial. New England Journal of Medicine 301, 687-90. 

Bond GG, Flores GH, and Stafford BA (1991) Lung cancer and hydrogen chloride exposure Results from a nested case-control study of chemical workers. Journal of Occupational Medicine 33 958-961. 

Bavinck, J.N., Tieben, L.M., Van der Woude, F.J., Tegzess, A.M., Hermans, J., ter Schegget, J. and Vermeer, B.f. (1995) Prevention of skin cancer and reduction of keratotic skin lesions during acitretin therapy in renal transplant recipients a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 13, 1933-1938. 

Chen, K., Craig, J.C. and Shumack, S. (2005) Oral retinoids for the prevention of skin cancers in solid organ transplant recipients a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. The British Journal of Dermatology, 152, 518-523. 

Sweep, F.C., Fritsche, H.A., Gion, M., Klee, G.G., and Schmitt, M. (2003) Consider ations on development, validation, application, and quality control of immuno(metric) biomarker assays in clinical cancer research an EORTC NCI working group report. International Journal of Oncology, 23, 1715 1726. 

Duncan, R., et al., Macromolecular prodrugs for use in targeted cancer chemotherapy melphalan covalently coupled to Y-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide copolymers. Journal of Controlled Release, 1991, 16, 121-136. 

The study s researchers, who reported their results in the British Journal of Cancer in 2003, performed what is known as a case-control study. They examined the dietary intake of acrylamide among 987 cancer patients and compared it to that of 538 healthy people to see if they could find a link between the disease and the chemical. No such link was apparent — the cancer patients had consumed no more acrylamide than had the healthy subjects. In fact, they associated higher levels of... 

Khambata-Ford S et al. Expression of epiregulin and amphiregulin and K-ras mutation status predict disease control in metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with cetuximab. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007 25 3230-3237. 

Fuchs CSet al. Randomized, controlled trial of irinotecan plus infusional, bolus, or oral fluoropyrimidines in first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer results from the BICC-C study. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007 25 4779-4786. 

H. Fan, et al., Fatigue, Menopausal Symptoms, and Cognitive Function in Women after Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer 1- and 2-Year Follow-Up of a Prospective Controlled Study, Journal of Clinical Oncology 23 (2005) 8025-8032. 

El-Aneed, A., An overview of current dehvery systems in cancer gene therapy. Journal of Controlled Release 2004, 94, (1), 1-14. 

Gustafson, J., Greish, K., Frandsen, J. etoL (2009) SUk-elastin-like recombinant polymers for gene therapy of head and neck cancer from molecular definition to controlled gene expression. Journal of Controlled Release, 140,256-261. 

An important question that needs to be answered is whether an adult patient with a solid malignant tumor that has not been controlled by other treatments should, as the last resort, receive chemotherapy or ascorbate. A valuable summary of current opinion of the use of chemotherapy in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine (9 November 1978) by Moertel. He pointed out that two decades ago... 

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