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 ...
Risk of contralateral breast ca ...
Rare deleterious mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 are associated with an elevated risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Whether or not common variants in t ...
Reversed urban–rural difference ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the urban–rural difference in breast cancer mortality between 2002 and 2008 in China. A longitudinal analys ...
Unmet supportive care needs: a ...
The comparison of psychosocial needs across different cultural settings can identify cultural and service impacts on psychosocial outcomes. We compa ...
Characterization of BRCA1 and B ...
Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 predispose carriers to early onset breast and ovarian cancer. A common problem in clinical genetic testing is interpret ...
Birth weight and other prenatal ...
Little is known about the role of birth weight and other prenatal factors in the etiology of breast cancer in Asian-Americans. We investigated the r ...
Reproductive factors and histol ...
Evidence suggests that certain reproductive factors are more strongly associated with the incidence of lobular than of ductal breast cancer. The mec ...
Mothers’ pre-pregnancy BMI and ...
Previous studies have established that higher birthweight is associated with increased risk of breast cancer. However, the mechanisms underlying thi ...
FOXC1, a target of polycomb, in ...
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins have recently been shown related to cancer development. The PcG protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate an ...
Breast cancer and spider telang ...
Angiogenesis is one of the hallmarks of breast cancer. The status of angiogenesis is important in therapy choice. Spider telangiectasias (telangiect ...
Detection of aberrant promoter ...
Aberrant promoter methylation of genes is a common molecular event in breast cancer. Thus, DNA methylation analysis is expected to be a new tool for ...
The effect of mTOR inhibition a ...
mTOR inhibitor rapamycin and its analogs are lipophilic, demonstrate blood–brain barrier penetration, and have shown promising antitumor effects in ...
Prognosis of metachronous contr ...
Studies comparing the prognosis after contralateral breast cancer (CBC) with that after unilateral breast cancer (UBC) shows conflicting results. We ...
P53 genotype as a determinant o ...
Clinical studies show that estrogen receptor-a (ER) expressing tumors tend to have better prognosis, respond to antiestrogen therapy and have wild-t ...
Protective effect of longstandi ...
Reproductive risk factors and associated risk for breast cancer have been and remain the subject of intense investigation. Particular attention is g ...
Elevated PCNA+ tumor-associated ...
African American and Hispanic women develop more triple negative breast cancer at younger ages than Caucasian women. The frequently observed associa ...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy usin ...
Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a standard surgical procedure for patients with early breast cancer. The combination of radioisotope ...
Malignant transformation of bre ...
Background Malignant phyllodes tumor of the breast is a rare neoplasm for which clinical findings remain insufficient for determination of optimal m ...
A case of a fibroadenoma coexis ...
A case of a fibroadenoma coexisting with an invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast in a 60-year-old female is presented, and its pathological feat ...
Long-term results of breast vol ...
We have used an inframammary adipofascial flap for breast-conserving reconstruction in the inferior portion of the breast since 2005. The aim herein ...
Long-term gemcitabine administr ...
Background Recently gemcitabine has been approved for treatment of metastatic or recurrent breast cancer in Japan; however, no systematically invest ...
Can patients with metastatic br ...
Unlike early stage breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is generally considered incurable except for a small number of patients with oligom ...
Early distant relapse in early ...
Triple-negative breast cancer is extremely aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other subtypes of breast cancer. Better understanding of t ...
Hepatic Arterial Embolization w ...
Objectives The pharmacokinetic profile after hepatic arterial embolization with superabsorbent microspheres (QuadraSpheres) loaded with doxorubicin ...
Augmentation of Chemotherapeuti ...
Purpose This study was designed to investigate the in vivo effects of combination therapy with TSU-68 and chemotherapeutic infusion in a rabbit VX2 ...