Abstract:
BACKGROUND:In several neoplastic diseases, immunosuppression has been shown to correlate with disease stage, progression, and outcome. As the prognosis for metastatic breast cancer is still pessimistic, additional strategies are being sought to improve survival. Local immunosuppression in sentinel node biopsies from 24 evaluable breast cancer patients was studied as a possible way of selecting patients for immunotherapy. METHOD:Sentinel node biopsy was performed in 24 out of 25 women operated on for primary breast cancer (one was not evaluable). Specimens were snap-frozen and double-stained for the zeta-chain of the T-cell receptor. The degree of down-regulation of the zeta-chain was evaluated in three different lymph-node areas: primary follicles, secondary follicles, and paracortex. RESULTS:Down-regulation of varying degrees was noted in all 24 sentinel node biopsies. A high degree of down-regulation (more than 50% of T-cells not expressing zeta-chain) was seen in the primary follicles in six patients (25%), in the secondary follicles in 13 patients (72%), and in the paracortex in 19 patients (79%). CONCLUSION:Local down-regulation of an immune function parameter was seen in sentinel node biopsies from breast cancer patients. In addition to possible prognostic implications, the sentinel node might be an appropriate location for detecting early-stage immunological down-regulation, which might open a possibility of selecting patients who could benefit from immunotherapy.
journal_name
Breast Cancer Res Treatjournal_title
Breast cancer research and treatmentauthors
Schüle J,Bergkvist L,Håkansson L,Gustafsson B,Håkansson Adoi
10.1023/a:1016009913699subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-07-01 00:00:00pages
33-40issue
1eissn
0167-6806issn
1573-7217journal_volume
74pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Feasibility of utilizing the 6-day subrenal capsule (SRC) assay to screen drugs against fresh surgical explants of human tumors was confirmed by testing six clinically active chemotherapeutic agents against 141 human breast cancers. Response rates of the six drugs obtained in the assay compared favorably with clinical...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01806232
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Taxanes are being used for the treatment of breast cancer. However, cancer cells frequently develop resistance to these drugs with the subsequent recurrence of the tumor. MDA-MB-231 and T-47D breast cancer cell lines were used to assess the effect of paclitaxel treatment on apoptosis and cell cycle, the possible mecha...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-011-1864-9
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::This review will focus on the role of sphingosine and its phosphorylated derivative sphingosine-1-phosphate (SPP) in cell growth regulation and signal transduction. We will show that many of the effects attributed to sphingosine in quiescent Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts are mediated via its conversion to SPP. We propose that...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF00666166
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Little is known about different ways of assessing risk of distant recurrence following cancer treatment (e.g., numeric or descriptive). We sought to evaluate the association between overestimation of risk of distant recurrence of breast cancer and key patient-reported outcomes, including quality of life and wor...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-016-4082-7
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine whether fruit, vegetable, and micronutrient intake 1 year prior to breast cancer diagnosis is associated with a reduction in the subsequent risk of all-cause or breast cancer-specific mortality. METHODS:Follow-up data from 1,235 invasive breast cancer cases age 25-98 years from the Long Island B...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-005-9150-3
更新日期:2006-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The genes mutated in the cancer-prone syndrome, xeroderma pigmentosum (XP genes), have been well studied both biochemically and mechanistically. These genes are important components of the DNA nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway, which protects against environmentally-induced cancers. XP genes are also ...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-006-9263-3
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) is a well-known target for signaling pathways originating from growth factor receptors. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can induce activation of extracellular response kinase 1/2 (Erk1/2) and protein kinase B (Akt). Both kinases have been implicated in the phosphorylation of serine 118 ...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-008-0221-0
更新日期:2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Psoriasin (S100A7) is a calcium-binding protein that has shown to be highly expressed in high-grade ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and a subset of invasive breast cancers. However, its role in invasion and metastasis is not very well known. In this study, we have shown that S100A7 differentially regulates epidermal g...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-013-2491-4
更新日期:2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Oestrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancers are more likely to achieve a pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy compared to those with ER positive tumours. ER positive tumours exhibit low proliferation and ER negative cancers high proliferation. The aim of this study was to determine to w...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-009-0329-x
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Tobacco smoking is a risk factor in several cancers, yet its roles as a putative etiologic exposure or poor prognostic factor in breast cancer are less clear. Altered DNA methylation contributes to breast cancer development and may provide a mechanistic link between smoking and gene expression changes leading t...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-017-4178-8
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transforming growth factor-beta (TGFB) is a potent inhibitor of normal epithelial cell proliferation, and may be one of the regulatory factors that are perturbed during tumor development. While many tumor cell lines no longer respond to the inhibitory effects of TGFB due to a reduction or absence of the type II recept...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/a:1023918026437
更新日期:2003-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 account for more than 80% of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. p53 tumor suppressor gene that controls cellular growth and differentiation is also known to be mutated in more than 50% of human cancers including breast cancer. We have carried out a s...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-004-0593-8
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is an important pro-inflammatory cytokine in the development and progress in human cancer. TNF-α polymorphisms have been confirmed to influence the risk for several types of cancer, however, the associations between TNF-α polymorphisms and breast cancer (BC) remain controversial and amb...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1007/s10549-011-1494-2
更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Preoperative paravertebral blocks (PPVBs) are routinely used for treating post-mastectomy pain, yet uncertainties remain about the cost-effectiveness of this modality. We aim to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of PPVBs at common willingness-to-pay (WTP) thresholds. METHODS:A decision analytic model compared tw...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s10549-017-4371-9
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe a method for the isolation of free DNA from ductal lavage (DL) and nipple aspirate fluid (NAF), and its evaluation for the presence of LOH at the BRCA1 and FHIT genes and for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations at the D310 marker, to improve early detection of breast cancer. We evaluated 26 DL and six NAF ...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/B:BREA.0000018406.03679.2e
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::(-)-Epigallocatechin (EGC), one of green tea polyphenols, has been shown to inhibit growth of cancer cells. However its mechanism of action is poorly known. We show here that EGC strongly inhibited the growth of breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231) but not that of normal breast epithelial cells. The inhibit...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/a:1020833410523
更新日期:2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Integrins are cell surface receptors, which mediate cell-to-cell and cell-to-extracellular matrix adhesion. Some of them, e.g. alpha(V)beta(3), alpha(IIb)beta(3) and alpha(2)beta(1), have been suggested as key players for cancer development and tumor metastasis. Two polymorphisms in the gene for the alpha(2) component...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-005-9089-4
更新日期:2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Women affected with breast cancer who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) mutation are at risk of developing contralateral breast cancer. To reduce the risk of contralateral breast cancer, some patients opt for prophylactic surgery of the unaffected breast (contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, CPM) in additio...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-006-9423-5
更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Proteins can be efficiently introduced into cells when fused to a protein transduction domain, such as Tat from the human immunodeficiency virus. We recently reported that dendritic cells transduced with a Tat fusion protein containing the extracellular domain of Her2/neu (Tat-Her2/neu) induced CD8 cytotoxic T lymphoc...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-005-0450-4
更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Estrogen exposure is involved in both breast cancer susceptibility and the prognosis in patients with breast cancer. Aromatase is involved in the production of estrogens, and altered expression of it might be associated with the prognosis. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of single nucleotide pol...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-007-9822-2
更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) has been proposed to have both pro-metastatic and anti-metastatic properties. To elucidate its role in breast cancer metastasis, we compared tumor progression in the polyomavirus middle T antigen (Pyt) transgenic mouse and the TSP-1-null Pyt transgenic mouse. We characterized the tumors in the...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-008-9992-6
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:P-cadherin (CDH3), located at 16q22.1 belonging to classical cadherin family, is a calcium-dependent glycoprotein associated with cell to cell adhesion, migration, and invasion in cancer. This meta-analysis was conducted to examine the prognostic utility of P-cadherin expression in breast cancer (BC). METHODS:...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1007/s10549-019-05477-5
更新日期:2020-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mammography and ultrasound are often used concurrently for patients with palpable breast masses. While mammography has a false-negative rate of approximately 15 %, the addition of breast ultrasound decreases this rate among patients with palpable breast masses. There are no recent outcome data regarding the use of com...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-015-3557-2
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive form of locally advanced breast cancer (LABC). The IBC phenotype is characterized by an infiltrative growth pattern, increased (lymph)angiogenesis and the propensity to invade dermal lymphatics. In pancreatic cancer, interactions between caveolin-1 and Rho...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-005-9002-1
更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hormone replacement therapy, which is a common menopausal treatment, is contraindicated in women with breast cancers due to concerns regarding the potential for breast cell proliferation. As such, there is a need for alternative methods for treating menopausal symptoms. To determine the influence of one such alternati...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/a:1020241509382
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Women with reduced CYP2D6 activity have low endoxifen concentrations and likely worse long term benefits from tamoxifen. We investigated the association between CYP2D6 genotype and tamoxifen-induced hot flashes in a prospective cohort. We collected hot flash frequency and severity data over 12 months from 297 women in...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1007/s10549-009-0309-1
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Platinum agents such as cisplatin and carboplatin are DNA-damaging agents with activity in breast cancer (BC), particularly in the triple negative (TN) subgroup. The utility of platinum agents, in addition to standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), is controversial. To assess the activity of platinum agents in patien...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi:10.1007/s10549-014-2876-z
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:This study investigates weight trajectories in pre- versus postmenopausal breast cancer (BC) survivors diagnosed with hormone receptor-positive tumors, with a specific focus on discerning menopausal status and type of endocrine treatment (ET) as risk factors for weight gain during ET. METHODS:We conducted a re...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s10549-017-4501-4
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have previously shown that human breast carcinoma cells demonstrating an interconverted phenotype, where keratin (epithelial marker) and vimentin (mesenchymal marker) intermediate filaments are both expressed, have an increased ability to invade a basement membrane matrix in vitro. This increase in invasive potenti...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/a:1006188129423
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Staging procedures used to detect metastatic breast cancer at the time of diagnosis are bone scan (BS), chest X-ray (CXR), liver ultrasonography (LUS) and laboratory parameters (LP). These procedures are expensive and not all patients need them. We aimed to identify groups of patients with different risks fo...
journal_title:Breast cancer research and treatment
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1023/a:1014900600815
更新日期:2002-03-01 00:00:00