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Original articles

• Host gene expression profiling of cervical smear is eligible for cancer risk evaluation (25 December, 2012)

  Olga Bourmenskaya, Ekaterina Shubina, Dmitry Trofimov, Denis Rebrikov, Elina Sabdulaeva, Oksana Nepsha, Vladimir Bozhenko, Svetlana Rogovskaya, Gennady Sukhikh
• Expression and diagnostic relevance of heat shock protein 90 and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 in malignant pheochromocytoma (15 January, 2013)

  Yunze Xu, Yicheng Qi, Wenbin Rui, Yu Zhu, Chongyu Zhang, Juping Zhao, Qing Wei, Yuxuan Wu, Zhoujun Shen, Guang Ning
• Nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR): a potential marker for specific molecular subtypes of breast cancer (25 December, 2012)

  Julia Y S Tsang, Ken H Y Wong, Michael W H Lai, Maribel D Lacambra, Chun-Wai Ko, Siu Ki Chan, Christopher C F Lam, Alex M C Yu, Puay-Hoon Tan, Gary M Tse
• Periostin expression correlates with pT-stage, grading and tumour size, and independently predicts cancer-specific survival in surgically treated penile squamous cell carcinomas (31 January, 2013)

  Sven Gunia, Anjun Jain, Stefan Koch, Stefan Denzinger, Stefanie Götz, Nina Niessl, Matthias May
• Composite intestinal adenoma-microcarcinoid clues to diagnosing an under-recognised mimic of invasive adenocarcinoma (7 February, 2013)

  Safia N Salaria, Amer K Abu Alfa, Nada Y Alsaigh, Elizabeth Montgomery, Christina A Arnold
• Breast cancer diagnosis in a resource poor environment through a collaborative multidisciplinary approach: the Kenyan experience

  (1 February, 2013)

  Shahin Sayed, Zahir Moloo, Peter Bird, Ronald Wasike, Wambui Njoroge, Joseph Karanu, Ancent Nzioka, Omar Sherman, Satya Prasad, Costa Mariwa, James Obondi Otieno, David Chumba, David Koech, Daniel Mbinga, Musa Mohammed, Richard Njoroge, Rajendra Chauhan, Sudhir Vinayak, Catherine Kyobutungi, Mansoor Saleh
• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy imaging of live epithelial cancer cells under non-aqueous media (7 February, 2013)

  JunYi Soh, Adeline Chueng, Aminat Adio, Alan J Cooper, Brian R Birch, Bashir A Lwaleed
• Improvement in the quality of molecular analysis of EGFR in non-small-cell lung cancer detected by three rounds of external quality assessment

  (1 February, 2013)

  Zandra C Deans, Neil Bilbe, Brendan O'Sullivan, Lazarus P Lazarou, David Gonzalez de Castro, Suzanne Parry, Andrew Dodson, Philippe Taniere, Caroline Clark, Rachel Butler
• Consent of the recently bereaved to post-mortem targeted angiography research: 207 adult cases (8 December, 2012)

  Sarah L Saunders, Jasmin Amoroso, Bruno Morgan, Guy Rutty
• Outcomes of faecal occult blood tests requested outside the UK National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (2 January, 2013)

  Rosie McDonald, Abigail Tomlins, Steve Smith, Christopher Harmston
• Physiological states and functional relation between thyrotropin and free thyroxine in thyroid health and disease: in vivo and in silico data suggest a hierarchical model (19 February, 2013)

  John E M Midgley, Rudolf Hoermann, Rolf Larisch, Johannes W Dietrich
• Helicobacter pylori-associated hypochlorhydria in children, and development of iron deficiency

  (25 December, 2012)

  Paul R Harris, Carolina A Serrano, Andrea Villagrán, Marjorie M Walker, Melanie Thomson, Ignacio Duarte, Henry J Windle, Jean E Crabtree