1. The International Journal of Clinical Oncology now has an impact factor

   Editorial Announcement 18 December 2008 Pages: 471 - 471

2. Recent advances in chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for gastrointestinal tract cancers

   • Toshiaki Watanabe

   Introduction to Review Articles 18 December 2008 Pages: 472 - 473

3. Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy for the treatment of esophageal carcinoma

   • Hisahiro Matsubara

   Review Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 474 - 478

4. Recent advances in chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for gastrointestinal tract cancers: adjuvant chemoradiotherapy for gastric cancer

   • Yukinori Kurokawa
   • Mitsuru Sasako

   Review Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 479 - 482

5. Chemotherapy for metastatic gastric cancer in Japan

   • Narikazu Boku

   Review Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 483 - 487

6. Chemoradiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer

   • Toshiaki Watanabe

   Review Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 488 - 497

7. Predicting clinical outcome of 5-fluorouracil-based chemotherapy for colon cancer patients: is the CpG island methylator phenotype the 5-fluorouracilresponsive subgroup?

   • Barry Iacopetta
   • Kazuyuki Kawakami
   • Toshiaki Watanabe

   Review Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 498 - 503

8. Contemporary management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer

   • Faysal A. Yafi
   • Jordan R. Steinberg
   • Wassim Kassouf

   Review Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 504 - 509

9. Gemcitabine and paclitaxel chemotherapy for advanced urothelial carcinoma in patients who have received prior cisplatin-based chemotherapy

   • Kunimitsu Kanai
   • Eiji Kikuchi
   • Mototsugu Oya

   Original Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 510 - 514

10. Comparison of alternate-day versus consecutive-day treatment with S-1: assessment of tumor growth inhibition and toxicity reduction in gastric cancer cell lines in vitro and in vivo

    • Wataru Arai
    • Yoshinori Hosoya
    • Tetsuhiko Shirasaka

    Original Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 515 - 520

11. Surgical complications of salvage total laryngectomy following concurrent chemoradiotherapy

    • Yasushi Furuta
    • Akihiro Homma
    • Satoshi Fukuda

    Original Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 521 - 527

12. Prognostic value of CD57⁺ T lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of patients with advanced gastric cancer

    • Junji Akagi
    • Hideo Baba

    Original Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 528 - 535

13. Pilot study of intraperitoneal administration of paclitaxel and oral S-1 for patients with peritoneal metastasis due to advanced gastric cancer

    • Shigeyuki Tamura
    • Hirofumi Miki
    • Yuichi Takatsuka

    Original Article 18 December 2008 Pages: 536 - 540

14. Glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix responsive to neoadjuvant intraarterial chemotherapy

    • Tomonori Nagai
    • Takashi Okubo
    • Satoru Takeda

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 541 - 544

15. Successful treatment of advanced gallbladder cancer with an anticancer drug S-1: assessment based on intratumoral gene

    • Kumiko Kitajima
    • Susumu Kobayashi
    • Katsuhiko Yanaga

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 545 - 551

16. Clear-cell adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix in a 17-year-old adolescent

    • Hiromitsu Yabushita
    • Kouhei Kanyama
    • Akihiko Wakatsuki

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 552 - 554

17. Leptomeningeal metastasis from ovarian carcinoma successfully treated by the intraventricular administration of methotrexate

    • Yasushi Goto
    • Noriyuki Katsumata
    • Yasuhiro Fujiwara

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 555 - 558

18. Muir-Torre syndrome associated with endometrial carcinoma

    • Toshimitsu Tohya
    • Takeshi Ogura
    • Kazumi Kuriwaki

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 559 - 561

19. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurring 10 years after clearance of hepatitis B surface antigen and 20 years after resection of hepatitis B virus-related HCC

    • Hiroji Shinkawa
    • Takuya Nakai
    • Shoji Kubo

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 562 - 566

20. Long-term complete response of multiple hepatic metastases from carcinoma of the papilla of Vater using intrahepatic infusion of 5-FU with low-dose cisplatin following pancreaticoduodenectomy

    • Shuhei Komatsu
    • Teruhisa Sonoyama
    • Eigo Otsuji

    Case Report 18 December 2008 Pages: 567 - 570