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Featured review: Response biomarkers to tailor cancer drug therapy

Amin & Bathe BMC Cancer 2016 - CC

Response biomarkers represent an attractive, yet under-explored alternative to radiographic tests such as CT and PET that are currently used to evaluate individual response to treatment and inform tailored cancer therapy. Shahil Amin and Frank Bathe review the state of the art on treatment response assessment, and propose a framework for response biomarker discovery.

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Featured article: Community-based football for men with prostate cancer, a study protocol

Jayel Aheram CC

Can football training delivered at local football clubs help improve the wellbeing and quality of life of men diagnosed with prostate cancer? A Dutch randomized controlled trial is set to find out.

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   Published on: 15 December 2016
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   Chao Lin, Liping Wang, Jiyao Sheng, Dan Zhang, Lianyue Guan, Kai Zhao and Xuewen Zhang

   Published on: 13 December 2016
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   A retrospective paired study: efficacy and toxicity of nimotuzumab versus cisplatin concurrent with radiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

   H. M. Li, P. Li, Y. J. Qian, X. Wu, L. Xie, F. Wang, H. Zhang and L. Liu

   Published on: 13 December 2016
4. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   The impact of gender difference on operative time in laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for T1 renal tumor and the utility of retroperitoneal fat thickness as a predictor of operative time

   Hiroki Ito, Kazuhide Makiyama, Takashi Kawahara, Kimito Osaka, Koji Izumi, Yumiko Yokomizo, Noboru Nakaigawa and Masahiro Yao

   Published on: 12 December 2016
5. RESEARCH ARTICLE

   Prognostic and predictive significance of long interspersed nucleotide element-1 methylation in advanced-stage colorectal cancer

   Mami Kaneko, Masanori Kotake, Hiroyuki Bando, Tetsuji Yamada, Hirofumi Takemura and Toshinari Minamoto

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