Chemotherapy for metastatic bre ...
Although new chemotherapeutic drugs for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have been approved over the past decade, it is unclear whether this has chang ...
Body weight and risk of breast ...
Obesity is an established risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer in the general population. However, it is still unclear whether this associat ...
Sentinel node micrometastases i ...
Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) for axillary staging in breast cancer allows the application of more extensive pathologic examination techniques. Microme ...
Lack of association between XPG ...
The xeroderma pigmentosum group G (XPG or ERCC5) and group F (XPF or ERCC4) play an important role in DNA repair, and produce dual incision 30 and 5 ...
A non-synonymous polymorphism T ...
As a tumor-associated antigen and a surface marker of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs), epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) plays an important ...
Improved survival of patients w ...
In this study, changes in prognosis for more than 8,000 patients with primary distant metastatic breast cancer were analyzed, using nation-wide data ...
Genetic variation in the androg ...
Genetic variation in the androgen-to-estrogen conversion pathway has been shown to be associated with risk of breast cancer and, in particular, with ...
Cadmium concentration in biolog ...
The study aimed to determine and compare cadmium (Cd) concentration in different biological media of breast cancer and benign breast tumor patients. ...
Polymorphisms of tumor necrosis ...
We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the association between tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) gene TNFA-308 (G[A), TNFA-238 (G[A), TNFA -85 ...
Joint effect of peroxisome prol ...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor c (PPARc) has been linked with possible antineoplastic effects in colorectal carcinogenesis. However, dat ...
Unfavourable pattern of metasta ...
Little is known about time trends in metastases in the patients treated in routine health care facilities without metastases at diagnosis (M0) and a ...
Evaluation of estrogen and prog ...
The objective of the present study was to compare the effects of tamoxifen and raloxifene in nonneoplastic breast epithelium. A randomized, double-b ...
Predictors of non-adherence to ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate 1-year adherence rates to aromatase inhibitors (AI) and to determine risk factors for non-adherence amon ...
Investigating Hardy–Weinberg eq ...
Yu et al. (Breast Cancer Res Treat 117:675–677, 2009) recently stated that testing for deviation from Hardy– Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) is necessary ...
The RING heterodimer BRCA1–BARD ...
The breast cancer susceptibility protein 1 (BRCA1) participates in the maintenance of cells genomic integrity through DNA repair, cell cycle checkpo ...
Prognostic significance of micr ...
Maaskant-Braat and colleagues [1] contribute to our understanding of sentinel node micrometastatic disease with this population-based study. Using d ...
Differential expression of prog ...
The aim of this study was to compare tumor expression of prognostic biomarkers between interval breast cancers and screen-detected breast cancers ov ...
Fragment c gamma receptor gene ...
Previous studies showing the presence of antibodies against tumor-associated antigens in healthy individuals suggest that antibody-dependent cell cy ...
Image-guided sampling reveals i ...
Mammographic density (MD) adjusted for age and body mass index (BMI) is a strong heritable breast cancer risk factor; however, its biological basis ...
Chemotherapy characteristics ar ...
Chemotherapy is vital for breast cancer management, but early onset toxicities like neutropenia hinder its administration. Primary prophylactic (PP) ...
Vegetable intake is associated ...
The protective effect of vegetables on the risk of breast cancer recurrence is uncertain. We sought to evaluate the association between breast cance ...
Mutations in BRCA2 and PALB2 in ...
Male breast cancer (MBC) is an uncommon disease with a frequency of approximately one in 1000. Due to the rarity of MBC, it is understudied and its ...
IGFBP1 and IGFBP3 polymorphisms ...
The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) pathway has been implicated as risk modifier in premenopausal breast cancer. In this study, associations betwee ...
Outcomes following local therap ...
Recent studies suggest trends toward more mastectomies for primary breast cancer treatment. We assessed survival after mastectomy and breast-conserv ...
Trends in improving survival in ...
In this issue of the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, there is the encouraging report from van den Hurk et al. [1] that the 5 year overall surv ...