Cancer gastrointestinal tract

YANAGIHARA K, ITO A, TOGE T, NUMOTO M (1993) Antiprolferative effects of isoflavones on human cancer cell lines established from gastrointestinal tract. Cancer Res. 53 5815-21. 

Roussel A, Jacob JH, Haegele P, et al. Controlled clinical trial for the treatment of patients with inoperable esophageal carcinoma a study of the EORTC Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer Cooperative Group. Recent Results Cancer Res 1988 110 21-29. 

Gallbladder carcinoma is diagnosed approx 5000 times a year in the United States, making it the most common biliary tract cancer and fifth most common gastrointestinal tract cancer. Also, approx 4500 cases of bile duct cancer occur each year in the United States. Women are more commonly afflicted than men, with a female-to-male ratio of 2.7 1.0. The median age at presentation of gallbladder cancer is 73 yr. In addition, an incidence five to six times that in the general population is seen in southwestern Native Americans, Mexicans, Hispanics, and Alaskans. 

Klinkenbijl JH, et al. Adjuvant radiotherapy and 5-fluorouracil after curative resection of cancer of the pancreas and periampullary region phase III trial of the EORTC gastrointestinal tract cancer cooperative group. Ann Surg 1999 230(6) 776-782 discussion 782-784. 

Reid A, Ambrosini G, De Klerk N, Fritschi L, and Musk B (2004) Aerodigestive and gastrointestinal tract cancers and exposure to crocidolite (blue asbestos) Incidence and mortality among former crocidolite workers. International Journal of Cancer 111(5) 757-761. 

Yanagihara K, Ito A, Toge T, Numoto M. Antiproliferative effects of isoflavones on human cancer ceU lines established from the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer Res 1993 53(23) 5815-5821. 

Kope-Maier P (1989) Tumor inhibition by titanocene complexes influence on xenografied human adenocarcinomas of the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 23 225-230. 

Employing a sandwich ELISA with two different monoclonal antibodies to MMP-9, Zucker et al. (ZIO) demonstrated that plasma MMP-9 was significantly increased in patients with breast cancer and gastrointestinal tract cancer (metastatic and nonmetastatic) as compared to normal subjects. Latent MMP-9 TIMP-1 complexes were significantly increased in the plasma of patients with GI cancer and female genitourinary tract cancer as compared to controls. Some of these patients had increased plasma complexes and normal MMP-9 and vice versa. When the results from both the MMP-9 and complex data were combined, increased levels of either MMP-9 or complexes were found in 36% of patients with GI cancer and 65% of... 

The cancers that exhibited a significant inverse relationship between green tea consumption and disease incidence are colon, rectal, pancreatic, stomach, ovarian, and gastrointestinal tract cancers. In most of the cases, the epidemiological data were... 

Hasegawa, T., Kondziolka, D., FUckinger, J. C., and Lunsford, L. D. (2003). Stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases from gastrointestinal tract cancer. Surg. Neurol. 60, 506-514. 

Another factor which could contribute to the elevated incidence of upper gastrointestinal tract cancers in alcoholics is the presence of carci-... 

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