Vol 5, No 4 (August 22, 2014): Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

Original Article

Outcomes of patients treated with capecitabine and temozolamide for advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) and non-PNETs
Renata D’Alpino Peixoto, Krista L. Noonan, Peter Pavlovich, Hagen F. Kennecke, Howard J. Lim
Breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) and excision repair cross complement-1 (ERCC1) expression in esophageal cancers and response to cisplatin and irinotecan based chemotherapy
Anubha Bharthuar, Sana Saif Ur Rehman, Jennifer D Black, Charles Levea, Usha Malhotra, Terry L Mashtare, Renuka Iyer
Relationship of ethnicity and overall survival in patients treated with sorafenib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Renata D’Alpino Peixoto, Daniel J. Renouf, Sharlene Gill, Winson Y. Cheung, Howard J. Lim
KRAS mutation profile differences between rectosigmoid localized adenocarcinomas and colon adenocarcinomas
Yasemin Baskin, Yusuf Kagan Dagdeviren, Gizem Calibasi, Aras Emre Canda, Sulen Sarioglu, Hulya Ellidokuz, Ilhan Oztop
Evaluation of quality of life and anxiety and depression levels in patients receiving chemotherapy for colorectal cancer: impact of patient education before treatment initiation
Ulku Polat, Afey Arpacı, Satı Demir, Sevgi Erdal, Şuayib Yalcin
Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the rectum: a poor candidate for neo-adjuvant chemoradiation?
Vijai Simha, Rakesh Kapoor, Rajesh Gupta, Amit Bahl, Ritambhara Nada

Short Communication

Gastric cancer: toward a cisplatin-free disease?
Fausto Petrelli, Sandro Barni, Stefano Cascinu, Alberto Zaniboni

Case Report

Rapidly progressive subcutaneous metastases from gallbladder cancer: insight into a rare presentation in gastrointestinal malignancies
Sean F. Heavey, Eric J. Roeland, Ann M. Ponsford Tipps, Brian Datnow, Jason K. Sicklick
A case report of HCC cutaneous metastasis
Divina Traficante, Pasquale Assalone, Federica Tomei, Franco Calista, Jessica Falleti, Enrico Caranci, Liberato Di Lullo
Gastric metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding: case report and review of the literature
Malav P. Parikh, Salih Samo, Venu Ganipisetti, Sathish Krishnan, Maulik Dhandha, Margaret Yungbluth, Walter R. Glaws
Common hepatic duct stricture: are lithiasis and negative brush cytology enough to rule out Klatskin tumor?
Panagiotis J. Vlachostergios, George Apergis
Uncommon conditions in surgical oncology: acute abdomen caused by ileocolic intussusception
Karl Mrak
Pancreatic head carcinoma and right hepatic artery: embolization management—A case report
Mehdi El amrani, Emmanuelle Leteurtre, Géraldine Sergent, Olivier Ernst, Vincent Maunoury, Julien Branche, François-René Pruvot, Stéphanie Truant
Hypercalcemia from metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor secreting 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D
Viola Zhu, Antonio de las Morenas, Milos Janicek, Kevan Hartshorn