THE HUMAN IIIB-MRNA SPLICE-VARIANT OF THE FGF-RECEPTOR-1(FGFR1) REDUCES THE TRANSFORMING POTENTIAL OF PANCREATIC CARCINOMA CELL LINES IN VITRO AND IN VIVO
Thiere M, Liu Z, Henne-Bruns D, Kornmann M
Department of General Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

C-JUN N-TERMINAL KINASE IS INVOLVED IN TRANSDUCTION OF MITOGENIC GROWTH FACTOR SIGNALS IN HUMAN PANCREATIC CANCER CELLS
Winkler AK, Kornmann M, Liu Z, Henne-Bruns D
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

FREQUENT DOWN-REGULATION OF PIM-1 MRNA EXPRESSION IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER IS ASSOCIATED WITH LYMPH NODE METASTASES
Warnecke-Eberz U¹, Baldus SE², Hoelscher AH¹, Schneider PM^1
1Department of Visceral and Vascular Surgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
²Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

THE HEPATOTROPHIC FACTOR ALR IS HIGHLY EXPRESSED IN CIRRHOSIS AND HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
Wagner H⁴, Thasler WE², Dayoub R¹, Bataille F³, Hartmann A³, Schlitt HJ¹, Weiss TS^4
1Department of Surgery, University of Regensburg Hospital, Regensburg, Germany
²Department of Surgery, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich Hospital Großhadern, Munich, Germany
³Department of Pathology, University of Regensburg Hospital, Regensburg, Germany
⁴Center for Liver Cell Research, University of Regensburg Hospital, Regensburg, Germany

NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION VERSUS HYPERFRACTIONATED ACCELERATED RADIOTHERAPY (HART) IN RESECTABLE DISTAL RECTAL CANCER
Ceelen W, Zwaenepoel O, Gillardin JM, Boterberg T, Van Damme N, Peeters M, Pattyn P
University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY IN COMBINATION WITH CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY IS AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS OF COLONIC ORIGIN
Aarts F, Koppe MJ, Hendriks T, Boerman OC, Bleichrodt RP
Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands