FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE PRESENTS

THE SPECIAL ISSUE


CANCER CHEMOPREVENTION

Managing Editor: Changping Zou

  I dedicate this Special Issue to the memory of Lixin Qian, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China, who passed away on 1/10/2006. Dr. Qian, my former PhD student, was a talented surgeon, a brilliant researcher, and an inspiring teacher. Dr Qian will remain a dear friend and colleague.

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Comparing the effect of ATRA, 4-HPR, and CD437 in bladder cancer cells
Changping Zou, Jianwei Zhou, Linxin Qian, Jean M. Feugang, Jia Liu, Xinru Wang, Sheng Wu, Hong Ding, Changchun Zou, Monica Liebert, and H. Barton Grossman

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2007-2016, September 1, 2006]

Intravesical N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) retinamide and Adriamycin induces apoptosis in bladder cancer
Lixin Qian, Hong Ding, Jianwei Zhou, Xinru Wang, Pengfei Shao, Shen Wu, Jie Yang, Jean M. Feugang, and Changping Zou

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2045-2051 September 1, 2006]

Polymorphisms of metabolic enzyme genes, living habits and prostate cancer susceptibility
Jie Yang, Hong-fei Wu, Wei Zhang, Min Gu, Li-xin Hua, Yuan-geng Sui, Zheng-dong Zhang, Jian-wei Zhou, Xin-Ru Wang, Changping Zou, and Li-xin Qian

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2052-2060 September 1, 2006]

Women with HNPCC: A Target Population for the Chemoprevention of Gynecologic Cancers
Russell R. Broaddus and Karen H. Lu

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2077-2080 September 1, 2006]

Chemoprevention of breast cancer: current status and future prospects
Xinhan Zhao, Linlin Li, and Zhiyu Wang

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2249-2256, September 1, 2006]

Perinatal invasive malignant diseases: a review of twenty-five cases in South China
Yanhong Yu, Leining Chen, Ying Zhong, Lingheng Kong, Yingying Huang, Fangming Su, Jingyuan Zhang, Mei Zhong, and Hui Chen

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2257-2263, September 1, 2006]

Growth inhibitory effects of quercetin on bladder cancer cell
Li Ma, Jean Magloire Feugang, Patricia Konarski, Jian Wang, Jianzhong Lu, Shengjun Fu, Baoliang Ma, Binqiang Tian, Changping Zou and Zhingping Wang

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2275-2285, September 1, 2006]

Epigallocatechin gallate, the main ingredient of green tea induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells
Xinhan Zhao, Honggang Tian, Xin Ma, and Linlin Li

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2428-2433, September 1, 2006]

Nutritional and medicinal use of Cactus pear (Opuntia spp.) cladodes and fruits
Jean Magloire Feugang, Patricia Konarski, Daming Zou, Florian Conrad Stintzing and Changping Zou

[Frontiers in Bioscience 11, 2574-2589, September 1, 2006]

Combination of 4-HPR and oral contraceptive in monkey model of chemoprevention of ovarian cancer
Molly Brewer, James Ranger-Moore, William Satterfield, Zengping Hao, Jian Wang , Emily Brewer, J. Taylor Wharton, Robert Bast, Changping Zou

[Frontiers in Bioscience 12, 2260-2268, January 1, 2007]