Biology of thoracic malignancies

Electronic Poster Discussion
Chairs: E. Brambilla (Grenoble, France), R. Wiewrodt (Mainz, Germany)

Formation of tumor fragment spheroids (TFS) from lung cancer, in vitro model as like in vivo K. U. Kim, Y. K. Kim, Y. M. Lee, D. J. Na, S. Uh (Seoul, Daejeon, Republic Of Korea)
Clone and initial identification of differentially expressed genes of human small-cell lung cancer multi-drug resistance cell line K. Li, G. Wu, F. Ji, G. Huang (Chongqing, China)
Distinction in immunoprofile of unusual lung tumours J. Stojsic, B. Milenkovic, M. Percinkovski, J. Radojicic (Belgrade, Serbia And Montenegro)
Expression of MIC molecules in non-neoplastic tissue of patients with primary lung neoplasm: evidence for a whole organ immunostimulatory signal M. Orozco-Levi, A. Sanchez-Font, A. Ramirez-Sarmiento, L. Pijuan, A. Gayete, J. Gea, V. Curull (Barcelona, Spain)
The role of human papilloma virus in the development of lung cancer G. Ucar, I. Hanta, S. Kuleci, S. Hasturk, E. Guveloglu, H. Zeren (Adana, Turkey)
Characterisation of dendritic cells generated from peripheral blood monocytes of NSCLC patients K. Wojas-Krawczyk, P. Krawczyk, J. Milanowski, J. Rolinski (Lublin, Poland)
The expression of PD-L1 on the lung cancer cell and its role in T cell anergy J. A. Huang, C. Chen, C. Y. Mu, Q. X. Qu, X. G. Zhang (Suzhou, China)
Expression of ERCC1 in normal and tumor tissues in non-small cell lung cancer M. H. Jung, K. R. Park, C. H. Oak, T. W. Jang, C. H. Sohn, S. D. Park, H. K. Chang (Busan, Republic Of Korea)
Prevalence of angiogenic squamous dysplasia in bronchial biopsies from patients with bronchogenic carcinoma who underwent whitelight bronchoscopy S. Karimi, F. Mohammadi, P. Mihan, L. Seyfollahi, B. Moslem (Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran)
Prognostic impact of histologic demonstration of chromogranin A and neuron specific enolase in pulmonary adenocarcinoma M. Petrovic, I. Tomic, S. Ilic, N. Ilic, I. Cekerevac (Kragujevac, Belgrade, Serbia And Montenegro)
Polymorphism in the length of CA repeat in intron 1 of EGFR of NSCLC in Japan N. Morikawa, T. Fukuhara, A. Inoue, T. Sakakibara, Y. Saijo, T. Nukiwa (Sendai, Miyagi, Japan)
Tumor-derived monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 promotes malignant pleural effusion G. T. Stathopoulos, D. Graf, A. Moustaki, C. Moschos, A. Kollintza, I. Psallidas, H. Petrocheilou, P. Theodoropoulou, S. A. Papiris, M. Joo, T. S. Blackwell, C. Roussos, I. Kalomenidis (Athens, Vari, Greece; Nashville, TN, United States Of America)
The equilibrium of oxidant and anti-oxidant in lung cancer B. Erturk, C. Ones, D. Marasli, A. Soyhan, A. Eren, A. Hazar (Istanbul, Turkey)
Vascular endothelial growth factor and oxidative stress in patients with primary lung cancer A. Katsabeki, T. Kerenidi, K. Kostikas, T. Kiropoulos, E. Dalaveris, K. Gourgoulianis (Larissa, Greece)
Immunohistochemical study of intratumoral micro vessels in resected non-small cell lung carcinomas, N-status, pTNM-stage and survival period of the patients Y. Slavova, D. Petrov, V. Dzambazov, W. Olszewski, S. Nachev, D. Marinova (Sofia, Bulgaria; Warsaw, Poland)
K-RAS oncogenic mutations in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer G. Cvetkovic, G. Plavec, I. Tomic (Belgrade, Serbia And Montenegro)
IGF-I and IGFBP-3 concentrations in the blood serum and lung cancer risk T. Izycki, W. Naumnik, M. Ossolinska, E. Chyczewska (Bialystok, Poland)
Utility of serum soluble mesothelin as a follow-up marker in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma B. D. Grigoriu, B. Chahine, M. Conti, L. Kedziora, T. Gey, M. C. Copin, P. Lassalle, G. Marchandise, H. Porte, A. Scherpereel (Lille, Denain, France; Iasi, Romania)
Pretreatment levels of TNF-α in serum and exhaled breath condensate in patients with lung cancer E. Dalaveris, T. Kerenidi, K. Kostikas, T. Kiropoulos, A. Katsabeki, K. Gourgoulianis (Larissa, Greece)
Association between protein expression of p63 and final cause of death in non small cell lung cancer R. Moreno Zabaleta, P. Benavides Mañas, A. Lopez Encuentra, R. Garcia Lujan, E. Conde Gallego, F. Lopez-Rios (Madrid, Spain)