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AGITG Publications 2005 - March 2008

Journal articles submitted

  1. Ackland SP, Gainford MC, Gebski V, Findlay M, Dhillon H, Clarke S; for the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group. Phase II study of irinotecan, fluorouracil and leucovorin in advanced gastric cancer. (Submitted to APJCO - rejected 26.3.08 appeal and further submission, SA following up.)
  2. Nowak Ak, Cebon J, Hargreaves C, Dhillon H, Findlay M, Gebski V, Stockler MR. Assessment of health-related quality of life and patient benefit as outcome measures for clinical trials in hepatocellular carcinoma (in-press Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology).

Journal articles 2007

  1. Findlay M, Storey D, Gebski V, Hargreaves C, Cullingford G, Boyer M, Trotter J, Archer S, Davidson A, Johnston P, Yuen J, Dhillon H, Della-Fiorentina S, Richardson G, Truskett P, Goldstein D; on behalf of the AGITG. A pilot study of preoperative and postoperative chemotherapy in patients with operable gastric cancer: Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group Study 9601. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 2007; 77(4): 247–252.
  2. Gebski V, Burmeister B, Smithers MB, Foo K, Zalcberg J, Simes J. Meta-analysis of the survival benefits from preoperative chemoradiation therapy and chemotherapy in oesophageal carcinoma. Lancet Oncology 2007; 8: 226–234.
  3. Jonker DJ, O'Callaghan CJ, Karapetis CS, Zalcberg JR, Tu D, Au HJ, Berry SR, Krahn M, Price T, Simes RJ, Tebbutt NC, van Hazel G, Wierzbicki R, Langer C, Moore MJ. Cetuximab for the treatment of colorectal cancer. New England Journal of Medicine 2007; 357(20): 2040-2048.
  4. Kopec JA, Yothers G, Ganz PA, Land SR, Cecchini RS, Wieand HS, Lembersky BC, Wolmark N. Quality of life in operable colon cancer patients receiving oral compared with intravenous chemotherapy: results from National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Trial C-06. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007 Feb 1;25(4):424-30.
  5. Kuebler JP, Colangelo L, O'Connell MJ, Smith RE, Yothers G, Begovic M, Robinson B, Seay TE, Wolmark N. Severe enteropathy among patients with stage II/III colon cancer treated on a randomized trial of bolus 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin plus or minus oxaliplatin: a prospective analysis. Cancer 2007; 110(9): 1945–1950. [NSABP]
  6. Kuebler JP, Wieand S, O'Connell MJ, et al. Oxaliplatin combined with weekly bolus fluorouracil and leucovorin as surgical adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II and III colon cancer: results from NSABP C-07. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007; 25(16): 2198–2204.
  7. Land SR, Kopec JA, Cecchini RS, Ganz PA, Wieand HS, Colangelo LH, Murphy K, Kuebler JP, Seay TE, Needles BM, Bearden JD 3rd, Colman LK, Lanier KS, Pajon ER Jr, Cella D, Smith RE, O'Connell MJ, Costantino JP, Wolmark N. Neurotoxicity from oxaliplatin combined with weekly bolus fluorouracil and leucovorin as surgical adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II and III colon cancer: NSABP C-07. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007 Jun 1;25(16):2205-11. Epub 2007 Apr 30
  8. Moore MJ, Goldstein D, Hamm J, et al. Erlotinib plus gemcitabine compared with gemcitabine alone in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer: a phase III trial of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007; 25(15): 1960–1966.
  9. Verweija J, Casalib PG, Kotasek D, et al. Imatinib does not induce cardiac left ventricular failure in gastrointestinal stromal tumours patients: analysis of EORTC-ISG-AGITG study 62005. European Journal of Cancer 2007; 43(6): 974–978.

Journal articles 2006

  1. Cebon J, Hargreaves C, Stockler M, Nowak A, Dhillon H, Dickman B, Gebski V; Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) AG0001H Investigators. Somatostatin receptor expression, tumour response, and quality of life in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with long-acting octreotide. British Journal of Cancer 2006; 95(7): 853–861.
  2. Debiec-Rychter M, Sciot R, Le Cesne A, Schlemmer M, Hohenberger P, van Oosterom AT, Blay JY, Leyvraz S, Stul M, Casali PG, Zalcberg J, Verweij J, Van Glabbeke M, Hagemeijer A, Judson I; On behalf of the EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group, The Italian Sarcoma Group and the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group. KIT mutations and dose selection for imatinib in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours. European Journal of Cancer 2006; 42(8): 1093–103.
  3. Lembersky BC, Wieand HS, Petrelli NJ, O’Connell MJ, Colangelo LH, Smith RE, Seay TE, Giguere JK, Marshall ME, Jacobs AD, Colman LK, Soran A, Yothers G, Wolmark N. Oral Uracil and Tegafur Plus Leucovorin Compared with Intravenous Fluorouracil and Leucovorin in Stage II and III Carcinoma of the Colon: Results from National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol C-06. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006;24(13):2059-64.
  4. Van Glabbeke M, Verweij J, Casali PG, Simes J, Cesne AL, Reichardt P, Issels R, Judson IR, van Oosterom AT, Blay JY. Predicting toxicities for patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours treated with imatinib: a study of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, the Italian Sarcoma Group, and the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (EORTC- IS G-AGITG). European Journal of Cancer 2006; 42(14) :2277–2285.

Journal articles 2005

  1. Ackland SP, Jones M, Tu D, Simes J, Yuen J, Sargeant A-M, Dhillon H, Goldberg RM, Abdi E, Shepherd L, Moore MJ. A meta-analysis of two randomised trials of early chemotherapy in asymptomatic metastatic colorectal cancer. British Journal of Cancer 2005; 93: 1235–1243.
  2. Burmeister BH , Smithers BM , Gebski V, Fitzgerald L, Simes RJ, Devitt P, Ackland S, Gotley DC, Joseph D, Millar J, North J, Walpole ET, Denham JW, for the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) and the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) Surgery alone versus chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery for resectable cancer of the oesophagus: a randomised controlled phase III trial. Lancet Oncology 2005; 6(9): 659–668.
  3. Goldstein D, Tan BS, Rossleigh M, Haindl W, Walker B, Dixon J. Gastrointestinal stromal tumours: correlation of F-FDG gamma camera-based coincidence positron emission tomography with CT for the assessment of treatment response—an AGITG study. Oncology 2005; 69(4): 326–332.
  4. Zalcberg JR, Verweij J, Casali PG, Le Cesne A, Reichardt P, Blay JY, Schlemmer M, Van Glabbeke M, Brown M, Judson IR; EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group, the Italian Sarcoma Group; Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group. Outcome of patients with advanced gastro-intestinal stromal tumours crossing over to a daily imatinib dose of 800 mg after progression on 400 mg. European Journal of Cancer 2005; 41(12): 1751–1757.