Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and postmenopausal breast cancer risk: a nested case control study in the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Molecular dissection of the signaling pathways that underlie complex biological responses in the mammary epithelium is limited by the difficulty of propagating large numbers of mouse mammary epithelial cells, and by the inability of ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi)-based knockdown approaches to fully a...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Kohn EA,Du Z,Sato M,Van Schyndle CM,Welsh MA,Yang YA,Stuelten CH,Tang B,Ju W,Bottinger EP,Wakefield LM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In response to gamma-irradiation (IR)-induced double-strand DNA breaks, cells undergo cell-cycle arrest, allowing time for DNA repair before reentering the cell cycle. G2/M checkpoint activation involves activation of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM)/ATM- and rad3-related (ATR) kinases and inhibition of...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Yan Y,Greer PM,Cao PT,Kolb RH,Cowan KH

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mammary-specific overexpression of Six1 in mice induces tumors that resemble human breast cancer, some having undergone epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and exhibiting stem/progenitor cell features. Six1 overexpression in human breast cancer cells promotes EMT and metastatic dissemination. We hyp...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Iwanaga R,Wang CA,Micalizzi DS,Harrell JC,Jedlicka P,Sartorius CA,Kabos P,Farabaugh SM,Bradford AP,Ford HL

更新日期：2012-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with varied morphological appearances, molecular features, behavior, and response to therapy. Current routine clinical management of breast cancer relies on the availability of robust clinical and pathological prognostic and predictive factors to support clinical and patient de...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Rakha EA,Reis-Filho JS,Baehner F,Dabbs DJ,Decker T,Eusebi V,Fox SB,Ichihara S,Jacquemier J,Lakhani SR,Palacios J,Richardson AL,Schnitt SJ,Schmitt FC,Tan PH,Tse GM,Badve S,Ellis IO

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Studies on the association between the cytochrome P450c17alpha gene (CYP17) 5'-untranslated region MspA1 genetic polymorphism and breast cancer risk have yielded inconsistent results. Higher levels of estrogen have been reported among young nulliparous women with the A2 allele. Therefore we assessed the im...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Verla-Tebit E,Wang-Gohrke S,Chang-Claude J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) represent approximately 20% of screen-detected breast cancers. The overall risk for DCIS patients treated with breast-conserving surgery stems almost exclusively from local recurrence. Although a mastectomy or adjuvant radiation can reduce recurrence risk, there are sig...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Klimov S,Miligy IM,Gertych A,Jiang Y,Toss MS,Rida P,Ellis IO,Green A,Krishnamurti U,Rakha EA,Aneja R

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF), which is centrally involved in physiological oxygen homeostasis, is also activated in the majority of tumours. Activation of HIF can occur through genetic mechanisms or as a result of hypoxia within the tumour microenvironment. In some cases HIF activation appears to be intimately lin...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Pugh CW,Gleadle J,Maxwell PH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Breast cancer is genetically and clinically a heterogeneous disease. However, the exact contribution of different cell types and oncogenic mutations to this heterogeneity are not well understood. Recently, we discovered an interaction between Wnt and integrin-linked kinase (ILK) within the signaling cascad...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Oloumi A,Maidan M,Lock FE,Tearle H,McKinney S,Muller WJ,Aparicio SA,Dedhar S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HER-2 (c-erbB2/Neu) predicts the prognosis of and may influence treatment responses in breast cancer. HER-2 activity induces the cytoplasmic location of p21WAFI/CIPI in cell culture, accompanied by resistance to apoptosis. p21WAFI/CIPI is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor activated by p53 to produce cell c...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Winters ZE,Leek RD,Bradburn MJ,Norbury CJ,Harris AL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are a complex network of antigen-presenting cells that have an essential role in the modulation of primary immunity. There has been increasing evidence that DCs isolated from patients with malignancy demonstrate functional deficiencies that inhibit the capacity to mount an effective anti-tumor re...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Lenahan C,Avigan D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:MBD2, the gene encoding methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD)2, is a major methylation related gene and functions as a transcriptional repressor that can specifically bind to the methylated regions of other genes. MBD2 may also mediate gene activation because of its potential DNA demethylase activity. The presen...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Zhu Y,Brown HN,Zhang Y,Holford TR,Zheng T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although numerous studies have reported that tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome type I (TRPS1) protein, the only reported atypical GATA transcription factor, is overexpressed in various carcinomas, the underlying mechanism(s) by which it contributes to cancer remain unknown. METHODS:Both overexpression and kn...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Wang Y,Zhang J,Wu L,Liu W,Wei G,Gong X,Liu Y,Ma Z,Ma F,Thiery JP,Chen L

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Texture patterns have been shown to improve breast cancer risk segregation in addition to area-based mammographic density. The additional value of texture pattern scores on top of volumetric mammographic density measures in a large screening cohort has never been studied. METHODS:Volumetric mammographic den...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Wanders JOP,van Gils CH,Karssemeijer N,Holland K,Kallenberg M,Peeters PHM,Nielsen M,Lillholm M

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cancer development have revealed that immune cells functionally regulate epithelial cancer development and progression. Moreover, accumulated clinical and experimental data indicate that the outcome of an immune response toward an evolving breast ne...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： DeNardo DG,Coussens LM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeobox (HOX) genes play key roles in embryogenesis and tissue differentiation. Recently, a number of groups have reported altered HOX gene expression in breast cancer. However, the mechanism of HOX gene regulation and the search for direct targets of its transcriptional regulatory function have been minimally fruitf...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Jin K,Sukumar S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The majority of breast cancers that occur in BRCA1 mutation carriers (BRCA1 carriers) are estrogen receptor-negative (ER-). Therefore, it has been suggested that ER negativity is intrinsic to BRCA1 cancers and reflects the cell of origin of these tumors. However, approximately 20% of breast cancers that de...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Tung N,Miron A,Schnitt SJ,Gautam S,Fetten K,Kaplan J,Yassin Y,Buraimoh A,Kim JY,Szász AM,Tian R,Wang ZC,Collins LC,Brock J,Krag K,Legare RD,Sgroi D,Ryan PD,Silver DP,Garber JE,Richardson AL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Increased mammographic breast density is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. While two-thirds of the variation in mammographic density appears to be genetically influenced, few variants have been identified. We examined the association of inherited variation in genes from pathways that med...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Vachon CM,Li J,Scott CG,Hall P,Czene K,Wang X,Liu J,Fredericksen ZS,Rider DN,Wu FF,Olson JE,Cunningham JM,Stevens KN,Sellers TA,Pankratz SV,Couch FJ

更新日期：2012-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sustained HER2 signaling at the cell surface is an oncogenic mechanism in a significant proportion of breast cancers. While clinically effective therapies targeting HER2 such as mAbs and tyrosine kinase inhibitors exist, tumors overexpressing HER2 eventually progress despite treatment. Thus, abrogation of ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Ren XR,Wei J,Lei G,Wang J,Lu J,Xia W,Spector N,Barak LS,Clay TM,Osada T,Hamilton E,Blackwell K,Hobeika AC,Morse MA,Lyerly HK,Chen W

更新日期：2012-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CRIPTO is a multi-functional signaling protein that promotes stemness and oncogenesis. We previously developed a CRIPTO antagonist, ALK4L75A-Fc, and showed that it causes loss of the stem cell phenotype in normal mammary epithelia suggesting it may similarly inhibit CRIPTO-dependent plasticity in breast canc...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Balcioglu O,Heinz RE,Freeman DW,Gates BL,Hagos BM,Booker E,Mirzaei Mehrabad E,Diesen HT,Bhakta K,Ranganathan S,Kachi M,Leblanc M,Gray PC,Spike BT

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:HER2 amplification and overexpression is observed in approximately 20% of breast cancers and is strongly associated with poor prognosis and therapeutic responsiveness to HER2 targeted agents. A recent study by Bose and colleagues suggests that another subset of breast cancer patients without HER2 amplification but wit...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Acharyya S

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The number of lymph nodes found to be involved in an axillary dissection is among the most powerful prognostic factors in breast cancer, but it is confounded by the number of lymph nodes that have been examined. We investigate an idea that has surfaced recently in the literature (since 1999), namely that t...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Vinh-Hung V,Verschraegen C,Promish DI,Cserni G,Van de Steene J,Tai P,Vlastos G,Voordeckers M,Storme G,Royce M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Obesity has been linked to increased risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Increased peripheral production of estrogens has been regarded as the main cause for this association, but other features of increased body fat mass may also play a part. Leptin is a protein produced mainly by adipose tissu...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Stuedal A,Ursin G,Veierød MB,Bremnes Y,Reseland JE,Drevon CA,Gram IT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PIK3CA mutations confer constitutive activation of PI3K, which initiates intracellular kinase signaling cascades that promote cell proliferation and survival. Recent studies by Meyer and colleagues, and Liu and colleagues demonstrate that expression of the H1047R exon 20 mutant of PIK3CA in luminal mammary epithelial ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Miller TW

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women with breast cancer who have multiple affected relatives are more likely to have inherited genetic risk factors for the disease. All the currently known genetic risk factors for breast cancer account for less than half of the average familial risk. Furthermore, the genetic factor(s) underlying an increa...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Walker LC,Pearson JF,Wiggins GA,Giles GG,Hopper JL,Southey MC

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bisphosphonates have become standard therapy for the treatment of skeletal complications related to breast cancer. Although their therapeutic effects mainly result from an inhibition of osteoclastic bone resorption, in vitro data indicate that they also act directly on breast cancer cells, inhibiting proli...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Journé F,Kheddoumi N,Chaboteaux C,Duvillier H,Laurent G,Body JJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mammographic density (MD) is a strong and heritable intermediate phenotype of breast cancer, but much of its genetic variation remains unexplained. METHODS:We conducted a genetic association study of volumetric MD in a Swedish mammography screening cohort (n = 9498) to identify novel MD loci. Associations w...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Brand JS,Humphreys K,Li J,Karlsson R,Hall P,Czene K

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:STATEMENT OF FINDINGS: We assessed the association between a glutamine repeat polymorphism in AIB1 and breast cancer risk in a case-control study (464 cases, 624 controls) nested within the Nurses' Health Study cohort. We observed no association between AIB1 genotype and breast cancer incidence, or specific tumor char...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Haiman CA,Hankinson SE,Spiegelman D,Colditz GA,Willett WC,Speizer FE,Brown M,Hunter DJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The association of breast cancer patients’ mortality with estrogen receptor (ER) status (ER + versus ER-) has been well studied. However, little attention has been paid to the relationship between the quantitative measures of ER expression and mortality. METHODS:We evaluated the association between semi-q...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Ma H,Lu Y,Marchbanks PA,Folger SG,Strom BL,McDonald JA,Simon MS,Weiss LK,Malone KE,Burkman RT,Sullivan-Halley J,Deapen DM,Press MF,Bernstein L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone binds to the androgen receptor in target tissue to mediate its effects. Variations in testosterone levels and androgen receptor activity may play a role in the etiology of breast cancer. Here, we review the epidemiologic evidence linking endogenous testosterone to breast cancer risk. Paradoxically, result...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Lillie EO,Bernstein L,Ursin G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Classification of breast cancers according to the HER-2 oncogene status is of central importance in the selection of post-surgical therapies. A decrease in the proportion of HER-2-positive breast cancer has been suspected, but no data on the incidence trends at population level have been reported. METHODS...

journal_title：Breast cancer research : BCR

authors： Köninki K,Tanner M,Auvinen A,Isola J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00