British journal of cancer
Br J Cancer
· ISSN (print) 0007-0920
· 130 papers in corpus
lab-animal
1992
Aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) is the first committed step in haem synthesis. In the presence of excess ALA the natural regulatory feedback system is disrupted allowing accumulation of protoporphyrin IX (PP IX) the last intermediate product bef…
other
1991
Murine monoclonal antibody CF511, raised against human ovarian clear cell carcinoma, detects a glycoprotein (Mr 600 kDa) called CF511 antigen which is elevated in the serum of many patients with ovarian carcinoma. A competitive enzyme-linke…
rct
1990
Twelve premenopausal patients with advanced breast cancer were randomised to receive 3.75 or 7.5 mg of a slow release formulation of the luteinising hormone releasing hormone agonist leuprorelin once every 4 weeks. All patients were oestrog…
other
1990
A detailed study was performed in 14 patients with epithelial ovarian tumours using the satellite probes 33.15, 228S and 216S to investigate the nature of somatic changes and frequency with which clonal changes could be demonstrated during …
observational
1990
The serum CA125 level was determined by a one-step immunoradiometric assay method in patients with lung cancer. Increased serum CA125 levels were observed in 37.8% of patients with squamous cell cancer, in 30.0% of those with adenocarcinoma…
1990
Serum levels of TAG 72 were measured in 726 serum samples from patients with benign and malignant gynaecological conditions in order to evaluate the clinical usefulness of TAG 72 alone or in combination with other tumour markers. Sixty-six …
other
1989
The murine monoclonal antibody (Mab) against human common epithelial ovarian carcinoma, CF511, was generated by immunising mice with human fetal tissue extract from early first trimester, followed by booster injection of an ovarian cancer c…
other
1989
We studied the effect of ovarian cancer and its chemotherapy on the urinary excretion of prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane A2 (TxA2) hydration and metabolic products. In six patients we measured 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and 2,3-dinor-6-keto-PGF1…
other
1988
diagnostic-accuracy
1988
Tumour-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI) is a 6 kD peptide isolated from the urine of a patient with ovarian cancer. Increased urinary excretion of TATI has earlier been observed in patients with gynaecological malignancies. The value of …
other
1987
other
1986
other
1986
1986
other
1985
Two assay procedures, an inhibition radioimmunoassay (Inhibition-RIA) and an immunoradiometric assay (IRMA), were established for the detection of circulating tumour-associated Ca antigen. There was a good correlation between results (r = 0…
other
1983
Serum prolactin concentrations were measured in 135 postmenopausal patients with advanced breast cancer prior to their treatment with one of 3 endocrine therapies: aminoglutethimide (AG), tamoxifen (T) + AG, or T + AG + danazol. The mean le…
observational
1983
A case-control study was conducted in Los Angeles County, California, of 127 endometrial cancer cases aged 45 years or less at diagnosis, to investigate the role of fertility, obesity and exogenous oestrogens in the development of the disea…
observational
1981
Follicular-phase (Day 11) plasma prolactin, and plasma and urinary oestrogen levels of 70 nulliparous nuns were compared with those of 80 of their sisters, of whom 62 were parous. The nuns and their nulliparous sisters did not differ signif…
other
1970
The effect of the progestogen medroxyprogesterone acetate on metastases from renal, endometrial and other tumours has been studied in 25 patients. Seven patients with renal and endometrial tumours had a useful response, pulmonary metastases…
other
1967
other
1966
other
1966
other
1964
review
1964
other
1962