EDITORIALS

Screening for Lung Cancer: No Longer a Taboo Subject

James R. Jett

JCO Apr 15 2002: 1959–1961. [Full Text] [PDF]

Epirubicin, Cisplatin, and Fluorouracil in Gastric and Esophageal Cancer: A Step Ahead?

David H. Ilson

JCO Apr 15 2002: 1962–1964. [Full Text] [PDF]

Sensitivity of Renal Cell Cancer to Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantations: Unusual or Unusually Important?

Frederick R. Appelbaum and Brenda Sandmaier

JCO Apr 15 2002: 1965–1967. [Full Text] [PDF]

The Local-Regionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Jigsaw Puzzle: Where Does the Chemotherapy Piece Fit?

Danny Rischin and Lester J. Peters

JCO Apr 15 2002: 1968–1970. [Full Text] [PDF]

Sphincter Preservation for Rectal Cancer: Fact or Fiction?

Bruce D. Minsky

JCO Apr 15 2002: 1971–1972. [Full Text] [PDF]

ORIGINAL REPORTS
Lung Cancer
	The Mayo Lung Cohort: A Regression Analysis Focusing on Lung Cancer Incidence and Mortality
	Gary M. Strauss
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 1973–1983. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Intraoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Improves Detection of Micrometastases
	Michael J. Liptay, Sean C. Grondin, Willard A. Fry, Chris Pozdol, Doreine Carson, Carol Knop, Gregory A. Masters, Reid M. Perlman, and William Watkin
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 1984–1988. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Long-Term Results of Combined-Modality Therapy in Resectable Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
	Jocelyne Martin, Robert J. Ginsberg, Ennapadam S. Venkatraman, Manjit S. Bains, Robert J. Downey, Robert J. Korst, Mark G. Kris, and Valerie W. Rusch
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 1989–1995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Gastrointestinal Cancer
	Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Mitomycin, Cisplatin, and Protracted Venous-Infusion Fluorouracil (PVI 5-FU) With Epirubicin, Cisplatin, and PVI 5-FU in Advanced Esophagogastric Cancer
	P. Ross, M. Nicolson, D. Cunningham, J. Valle, M. Seymour, P. Harper, T. Price, H. Anderson, T. Iveson, T. Hickish, F. Lofts, and A. Norman
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 1996–2004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Minimal Residual Disease in Gastric Cancer: Evidence of an Independent Prognostic Relevance of Urokinase Receptor Expression by Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Bone Marrow
	Markus Maria Heiss, Erich H. Simon, Bianca C.M. Beyer, Klaus Uwe Gruetzner, Anwar Tarabichi, Rudolf Babic, Friedrich Wilhelm Schildberg, and Heike Allgayer
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2005–2016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Genitourinary Cancer
	Allogeneic Stem-Cell Transplantation of Renal Cell Cancer After Nonmyeloablative Chemotherapy: Feasibility, Engraftment, and Clinical Results
	Brian I. Rini, Todd Zimmerman, Walter M. Stadler, Thomas F. Gajewski, and Nicholas J. Vogelzang
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2017–2024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Analysis of Clinical Stage T2 Prostate Cancer: Do Current Subclassifications Represent an Improvement?
	Ilias Cagiannos, Markus Graefen, Pierre I. Karakiewicz, Makato Ohori, James A. Eastham, Farhang Rabbani, William Fair, Thomas M. Wheeler, Peter G. Hammerer, Alexander Haese, Andreas Erbersdobler, Hartwig Huland, Peter T. Scardino, and Michael W. Kattan
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2025–2030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Activity of Oxaliplatin in Patients With Relapsed or Cisplatin-Refractory Germ Cell Cancer: A Study of the German Testicular Cancer Study Group
	C. Kollmannsberger, O. Rick, H.-G. Derigs, N. Schleucher, P. Schöffski, J. Beyer, R. Schoch, H.G. Sayer, A. Gerl, M. Kuczyk, C. Spott, L. Kanz, and C. Bokemeyer
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2031–2037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Head and Neck Cancer
	Concurrent Chemotherapy-Radiotherapy Compared With Radiotherapy Alone in Locoregionally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Progression-Free Survival Analysis of a Phase III Randomized Trial
	A.T.C. Chan, P.M.L. Teo, R.K. Ngan, T.W. Leung, W.H. Lau, B. Zee, S.F. Leung, F.Y. Cheung, W. Yeo, H.H. Yiu, K.H. Yu, K.W. Chiu, D.T. Chan, T. Mok, K.T. Yuen, F. Mo, M. Lai, W.H. Kwan, P. Choi, and P.J. Johnson
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2038–2044. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Melanoma
	Sequential Biochemotherapy Versus Chemotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma: Results From a Phase III Randomized Trial
	Omar Eton, Sewa S. Legha, Agop Y. Bedikian, J. Jack Lee, Antonio C. Buzaid, Cynthia Hodges, Sigrid E. Ring, Nicholas E. Papadopoulos, Carl Plager, Mary Jo East, Feng Zhan, and Robert S. Benjamin
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2045–2052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Implications of Microscopic Satellites of the Primary and Extracapsular Lymph Node Spread in Patients With High-Risk Melanoma: Pathologic Corollary of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Trial E1690
	U.N.M. Rao, J. Ibrahim, L.E. Flaherty, J. Richards, and J.M. Kirkwood
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2053–2057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Adjuvant Immunotherapy of Resected, Intermediate-Thickness, Node-Negative Melanoma With an Allogeneic Tumor Vaccine: Overall Results of a Randomized Trial of the Southwest Oncology Group
	Vernon K. Sondak, P.-Y. Liu, Ralph J. Tuthill, Raymond A. Kempf, Joseph M. Unger, Jeffrey A. Sosman, John A. Thompson, Geoffrey R. Weiss, Bruce G. Redman, James G. Jakowatz, R. Dirk Noyes, and Lawrence E. Flaherty
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2058–2066. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Adjuvant Immunotherapy of Resected, Intermediate-Thickness, Node-Negative Melanoma With an Allogeneic Tumor Vaccine: Impact of HLA Class I Antigen Expression on Outcome
	Jeffrey A. Sosman, Joseph M. Unger, P.-Y. Liu, Lawrence E. Flaherty, Min S. Park, Raymond A. Kempf, John A. Thompson, Paul I. Terasaki, and Vernon K. Sondak
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2067–2075. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Central Nervous System
	Prognostic Factors for Survival in Adult Patients With Cerebral Low-Grade Glioma
	Francesco Pignatti, Martin van den Bent, Desmond Curran, Channa Debruyne, Richard Sylvester, Patrick Therasse, Denes Áfra, Philippe Cornu, Michel Bolla, Charles Vecht, and Abul B.M.F. Karim
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2076–2084. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Breast Cancer
	Breast Cancer Screening in Women Previously Treated for Hodgkin’s Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study
	Lisa Diller, Cheryl Medeiros Nancarrow, Kitt Shaffer, Ursula Matulonis, Peter Mauch, Donna Neuberg, Nancy J. Tarbell, Heather Litman, and Judy Garber
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2085–2091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Decision Analysis of Prophylactic Surgery or Screening for BRCA1 Mutation Carriers: A More Prominent Role For Oophorectomy
	Mariëlle S. van Roosmalen, Lia C.G. Verhoef, Peep F.M. Stalmeier, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, and Willem A.J. van Daal
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2092–2100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Hematologic Malignancies
	Long-Term Survival and Competing Causes of Death in Patients With Early-Stage Hodgkin’s Disease Treated at Age 50 or Younger
	Andrea K. Ng, M. Patricia Bernardo, Edie Weller, Kendall H. Backstrand, Barbara Silver, Karen C. Marcus, Nancy J. Tarbell, Jonathan Friedberg, George P. Canellos, and Peter M. Mauch
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2101–2108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Supportive Care and Quality of Life
	How Sociodemographics, Presence of Oncology Specialists, and Hospital Cancer Programs Affect Accrual to Cancer Treatment Trials
	Warren B. Sateren, Edward L. Trimble, Jeffrey Abrams, Otis Brawley, Nancy Breen, Leslie Ford, Mary McCabe, Richard Kaplan, Malcolm Smith, Richard Ungerleider, and Michaele C. Christian
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2109–2117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Association of Depressive Syndrome and Early Deaths Among Patients After Stem-Cell Transplantation for Malignant Diseases
	Fausto R. Loberiza, Jr, J. Douglas Rizzo, Christopher N. Bredeson, Joseph H. Antin, Mary M. Horowitz, Jane C. Weeks, and Stephanie J. Lee
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2118–2126. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Place of Death and Its Predictors for Local Patients Registered at a Comprehensive Cancer Center
	Eduardo Bruera, Nancy Russell, Catherine Sweeney, Michael Fisch, and J. Lynn Palmer
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2127–2133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Attitudes of Terminally Ill Cancer Patients About Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Predominance of Psychosocial Determinants and Beliefs Over Symptom Distress and Subsequent Survival
	Maria E. Suarez-Almazor, Catherine Newman, John Hanson, and Eduardo Bruera
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2134–2141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Pediatric Oncology
	Pilot Study of Iodine-131–Metaiodobenzylguanidine in Combination With Myeloablative Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem-Cell Support for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma
	Gregory A. Yanik, John E. Levine, Katherine K. Matthay, James C. Sisson, Barry L. Shulkin, Brahm Shapiro, David Hubers, Susan Spalding, Tom Braun, James L.M. Ferrara, and Raymond J. Hutchinson
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2142–2149. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sarcomas
	High-Dose Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Relapsed Osteosarcoma: An Italian Sarcoma Group Study
	F. Fagioli, M. Aglietta, A. Tienghi, S. Ferrari, A. Brach del Prever, E. Vassallo, A. Palmero, E. Biasin, G. Bacci, P. Picci, and E. Madon
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2150–2156. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Phase I and Clinical Pharmacology
	Phase I Study of the Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor Flavopiridol in Combination With Paclitaxel in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
	Gary K. Schwartz, Eileen O’Reilly, David Ilson, Leonard Saltz, Sunil Sharma, William Tong, Peter Maslak, Maxine Stoltz, Larry Eden, Pam Perkins, Sandra Endres, John Barazzoul, David Spriggs, and David Kelsen
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2157–2170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
	Atrasentan, an Endothelin-Receptor Antagonist for Refractory Adenocarcinomas: Safety and Pharmacokinetics
	Michael A. Carducci, Joel B. Nelson, M. Kathy Bowling, Theresa Rogers, Mario A. Eisenberger, Victoria Sinibaldi, Ross Donehower, Terri L. Leahy, Robert A. Carr, Jeffrey D. Isaacson, Todd J. Janus, Amy Andre, Balakrishna S. Hosmane, and Robert J. Padley
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2171–2180. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE CANCER
	High-Dose Chemotherapy in Poor-Prognosis Adult Small Round-Cell Tumors: Clinical and Molecular Results From a Prospective Study
	Alexia Bertuzzi, Luca Castagna, Andrea Nozza, Vittorio Quagliuolo, Licia Siracusano, Monica Balzarotti, Silvana Compasso, Marco Alloisio, Hector Soto Parra, and Armando Santoro
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2181–2188. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

SPECIAL ARTICLES
	Oncologists’ Attitudes Toward and Practices in Giving Bad News: An Exploratory Study
	Walter F. Baile, Renato Lenzi, Patricia A. Parker, Robert Buckman, and Lorenzo Cohen
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2189–2196. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

REVIEW ARTICLES
	Carcinoembryonic Antigen as a Target for Therapeutic Anticancer Vaccines: A Review
	Neil L. Berinstein
	JCO Apr 15 2002: 2197–2207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS

CORRESPONDENCE

Sentinel-Node Technique Will Change the Design of Clinical Trials in Malignant Melanoma

Lutz Kretschmer, Christine Neumann, Brett Coldiron, Scott Dinehart, John M. Kirkwood, Sanjiv S. Agarwala, Joseph Ibrahim, Judith Manola, Vernon K. Sondak, Marc S. Ernstoff, and Merrick K. Ross

JCO Apr 15 2002: 2208–2210. [Full Text] [PDF]

Perioperative Chemotherapy in Patients With Node-Negative Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

Jos A. van der Hage, Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, Marco Colleoni, Aron Goldhirsch, Alan S. Coates, Richard D. Gelber, Shari Gelber, and Monica Castiglione-Gertsch

JCO Apr 15 2002: 2210–2212. [Full Text] [PDF]

Tumor Lysis Syndrome at the Beginning of Thalidomide Therapy for Multiple Myeloma

L. Cany, O. Fitoussi, J.M. Boiron, and G. Marit

JCO Apr 15 2002: 2212. [Full Text] [PDF]

Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators May Be Damaged by Radiation Therapy

S. Hoecht, P. Rosenthal, D. Sancar, S. Behrens, W. Hinkelbein, and U. Hoeller

JCO Apr 15 2002: 2212-a–2213. [Full Text] [PDF]

ERRATA

JCO Apr 15 2002: 2213. [Full Text] [PDF]

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