Abstract：
:Until recently, endocrine therapy for breast cancer was relatively simple. If the tumour expressed hormone receptors, regardless of stage and age, tamoxifen was indicated. While this largely remains the case for premenopausal women, clinical trials in postmenopausal women have broadened our choice to include one of three selective aromatase inhibitors (AIs), the nonsteroidal agents anastrozole or letrozole and the steroidal agent exemestane. Comparative data concerning the efficacy, toxicity, tolerability and cost of AI vs tamoxifen continues to evolve with over 40 000 women slated to be involved in clinical trials. Currently, tamoxifen remains an appropriate choice for adjuvant treatment, and will remain so unless a clear survival advantage emerges for adjuvant AI therapy. However, anastrozole is widely seen as a useful alternative, with particular merit for patients prone to the development of serious tamoxifen side effects. For endocrine therapy naïve advanced disease, several trials have provided evidence that a nonsteroidal AI has replaced tamoxifen as optimal treatment. In the neoadjuvant setting, letrozole was also more effective than tamoxifen, both in terms of response rates and the incidence of breast-conserving surgery, and so AI therefore also dominates this evolving indication. The ongoing adjuvant clinical trials ask all the relevant questions regarding tamoxifen and AI in combination, sequence and duration, except for 5 years of an AI vs a longer period. For both the advanced and early-stage disease, resistance remains the key obstacle to overcome, and trials that combine endocrine agents with signal transduction inhibitors such as HER1 and HER2 kinase inhibitors, farnesyl transferase inhibitors, mTOR inhibitors as well as COX2 inhibitors are being developed in a concerted attempt to address this problem.
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Br J Cancerjournal_title
British journal of cancerauthors
Wong ZW,Ellis MJdoi
10.1038/sj.bjc.6601508subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-01-12 00:00:00pages
20-5issue
1eissn
0007-0920issn
1532-1827pii
6601508journal_volume
90pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:In the district of Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh in South India the habit of reverse smoking is widespread. In a house to house survey of oral cancer and precancerous conditions, comprising 10,169 villagers, 43·8% were reverse smokers; the female: male ratio being 1·7: 1. Ten previously undiagnosed cases of oral cancer...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1971.2
更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To evaluate whether green tea consumption provides protection against stomach cancer, the relative risks (RRs) were calculated in the Japan Collaborative Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risk, sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (JACC Study). The study was based on 157 incident cases and 285 controls aged 40...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6601512
更新日期：2004-01-12 00:00:00
abstract：:The addition of lapatinib (Tykerb/Tyverb) to capecitabine (Xeloda) delays disease progression more effectively than capecitabine monotherapy in women with previously treated HER2+ metastatic breast cancer (MBC). The quality-adjusted time without symptoms of disease or toxicity of treatment (Q-TWiST) method was used to...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6604501
更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00
abstract：:The reaction patterns of eight antibodies directed against blood group substances A, B and H, respectively, against Lewis B antigen, difucosylated carbohydrate antigens (DFCA), gastrointestinal cancer antigen CA 19-9 (GICA), carcinoma-associated antigen CA-50 and CEA, were studied in 68 rectal carcinomas using the avi...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1987.102
更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring A (BPD-MA, verteporfin) is currently under investigation as a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy (PDT). Since BPD exhibits rapid pharmacokinetics in plasma and tissues, we assessed damage to tumour and muscle microvasculature when light treatment for PDT was given at short...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6690271
更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It has been suggested that World War II influenced breast cancer risk among Norwegian women by affecting adolescent growth. Diet changed substantially during the war, and the reduction in energy intake was assumed to be larger in non-food-producing than in food-producing municipalities. In the present study, we have l...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6600084
更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) comprises different domains of physical, mental, and social well-being. In this analysis, we focus on sexual quality of life in Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) patients. METHODS:Four-thousand one-hundred and sixty patients enroled in the HD10-HD12 trials underwent HRQoL assessme...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2012.550
更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Two-tumour-cell-aggregation factors derived from rat ascites hepatoma cells had different antigenicity; one, with a strong potency, was not absorbed by immunoadsorbent chromatography with anti-rat serum antibody and the other, with a weak potency, was. The unabsorbed factor possessed mitogenic activity on lymphocytes ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1978.192
更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have determined the methylation status of the CpG island of the oestrogen receptor alpha gene in seven human ovarian cell lines. Cell lines expressing oestrogen receptor alpha showed no evidence of hypermethylation. In three of four cell lines that produced no detectable oestrogen receptor alpha protein, hypermethy...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6600028
更新日期：2002-01-21 00:00:00
abstract：:We have investigated both the effects of X-rays on angiogenesis and the possible role of nitric oxide (NO) on the observed antiangiogenic effect of X-rays, using as an in vivo model the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM). These effects were assessed both morphologically and biochemically, by measuring vascula...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1996.653
更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Germline anomalies of the INK4a-ARF and Cdk4 genes were sought in a series of 89 patients suspected of having a genetic predisposition to melanoma. Patients were selected based on the following criteria: (a) familial melanoma (23 cases), (b) multiple primary melanoma (MPM; 18 cases), (c) melanoma and additional unrela...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6601503
更新日期：2004-01-26 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Though p53 mutations are rare in ES, there is a strong indication that p53 mutant tumours form a particularly bad prognostic group. As such, novel treatment strategies are warranted that would specifically target and eradicate tumour cells containing mutant p53 in this subset of ES patients. METHODS:PRIMA-1...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2013.635
更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00
abstract：:Chromosome 17 alterations are found in more cancers than those of any other chromosome, and frequently involve the p53 gene on 17p13. The aim of this study was to identify the correlations between the presence of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and microsatellite instability (MI) on chromosome 17p13 in patients with cerv...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6690658
更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Favourable outcomes of breast cancer screening trials in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in the launch of population-based service screening programmes in many Western countries. We investigated whether improvements in mammography and treatment modalities have had an influence on the effectiveness of breast can...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2011.44
更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00
abstract：:A CD34-negative haematopoietic progenitor cell line, D064, derived from canine bone marrow stromal cells is able to differentiate into haematopoietic progenitors under the influence of growth factor-mediated signalling. While differentiating, these cells eventually start to express MHC class II molecules (DR homologue...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6690768
更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymidine phosphorylase (TP) is often overexpressed in tumours and has a role in tumour aggressiveness and angiogenesis. Here, we determined whether TP increased tumour invasion and whether TP-expressing cancer cells stimulated angiogenesis. METHODS:Angiogenesis was studied by exposing endothelial cells (HU...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2011.74
更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00
abstract：:Human topoisomerase II enzymes are targets for a number of widely used anticancer agents. We have analysed a lung adenocarcinoma cell line CALU3, which has co-amplified topoisomerase II alpha and ERBB2 sequences, for the structure of the amplicon and for expression of both topoisomerase II alpha and beta. The region o...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1993.430
更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Markers of the inflammatory response, interleukin 6, C-reactive protein, albumin and full blood count, were measured in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients (n = 21) with and without weight loss ( > 5%). There were significant increases in circulating C-reactive protein (P < 0.001), interleukin 6 (P < 0.01) and...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1996.294
更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:During the COVID-19 era, Chinese hospitals have developed a system that enables vulnerable cancer patients to continue to receive high-quality medical care, optimising their survival whilst protecting them. This includes use of digital quick codes, fever clinics and optimal scheduling. We wish to share our experiences...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/s41416-020-0856-0
更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Regional lymph node metastasis is a very important prognostic indicator. In the metastatic process, reduction in cell to cell adhesion including E-cadherin-catenin cell adhesion complex is an essential step. We investigated immunohistochemical expression of E-cadherin, alpha-catenin and beta-catenin in 159 tissue samp...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6601124
更新日期：2003-08-04 00:00:00
abstract：:Abnormalities of the p53 tumor-suppressor gene are found in a significant proportion of astrocytic brain tumours. We studied tumour specimens from 74 patients evaluated over 20 years at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where clinical outcome could be determined and sufficient pathologic material was available for i...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602161
更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Bladder cancer (BC) predominantly affects the elderly and is often the cause of death among patients with muscle-invasive disease. Clinicians lack quantitative estimates of competing mortality risks when considering treatments for BC. Our aim was to determine the bladder cancer-specific mortality (CSM) rate ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2013.106
更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumour microenvironments can differ according to intratumoural locations. We investigated the immune status at different locations in primary tumours and its clinical significance in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). METHODS:The number of CD8+ tumour-infiltrating immune cells (TIICs) and PD-1+ TII...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/s41416-019-0622-3
更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:NK911 is a novel supramolecular nanocarrier designed for the enhanced delivery of doxorubicin (DXR) and is one of the successful polymer micelle systems to exhibit an efficient accumulation in solid tumours in mice. The purpose of this study was to define the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) and dose-limiting toxicities (...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602204
更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Aminoglutethimide has been used in combination with hydrocortisone in patients with advanced prostatic cancer with the rationale that it causes a 'medical adrenalectomy'. Both objective and subjective responses have been recorded. We have examined the effect of AG and HC alone and in combination on plasma androgen lev...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1988.40
更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Doxorubicin- and paclitaxel-selected variants of an in vitro invasive clonal population of the human breast cancer cell line, MDA-MB-435S, were established by pulse selection, and exhibited a novel 'superinvasive' phenotype. This phenotype is characterised by an ability to relocate to another surface following invasio...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602221
更新日期：2004-11-15 00:00:00
abstract：:A study is presented of all cases of primary sarcoma of bone registered during the period 1946 to 1974 for a specified population resident in south-western England. Ninety-six per cent of the 365 cases were histologically and radiologically verified and are separated into 8 categories of sarcoma. The number of tumours...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1977.221
更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with high-grade gliomas are treated with surgery followed by chemoradiation. The risk factors and implications of neurological side effects are not known. METHODS:Acute and late ≥ grade 3 neurological toxicities (NTs) were analysed among 2761 patients from 14 RTOG trials accrued from 1983 to 2003. ...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.2011.123
更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00
abstract：:One hundred cancer patients undergoing active treatment were interviewed to determine how they perceived their illness and how their perceptions compared with those of their attending physicians. Ninety-eight patients recognized that they had cancer and 87 correctly identified the tumour type. Sixty-four of 67 patient...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1988.218
更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The influence of human serum albumin (HA) on the biological effects of 13 chemotherapeutic agents was studied in vitro in the human leukaemia cell line MOLT-3. On the basis of changes in biological activity influenced by HA, these drugs may be divided into three types. Type I agents include cis-diamminedichloroplatinu...
journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1980.103
更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00
