Association between overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 and suppression of apoptosis in advanced cancer of the uterine cervix after cyclic balloon-occluded arterial infusion

• Published in: Oncology reports Vol. 8; no. 6; p. 1259
• Main Authors: Ishiko, O, Sumi, T, Yoshida, H, Matsumoto, Y, Honda, K, Deguchi, M, Yamada, R, Ogita, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Greece 01.11.2001
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Antineoplastic Agents - administration & dosage; Apoptosis; Cisplatin - administration & dosage; Combined Modality Therapy; Cyclooxygenase 2; Female; Humans; Infusions, Intra-Arterial - methods; Isoenzymes - metabolism; Membrane Proteins; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Prognosis; Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases - metabolism; Survival Analysis; Treatment Failure; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - drug therapy; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - metabolism; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - pathology

Recent advances in cancer chemotherapy have drawn the attention of investigators to the usefulness of chemotherapy for cancer of the uterine cervix in general, and we ourselves have previously reported satisfactory therapeutic results of cisplatin-based cyclic balloon-occluded arterial infusion chem...