Immunohistochemical and molecular subtypes of breast cancer in Nigeria.

abstract：:The present preclinical study was designed to evaluate a new combination therapy comprised of the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole (ANA) and the oral fluoropyrimidines, UFT and S-1 against the estrogen receptor (ER)-positive human breast cancer cell line MCF-7/Arom 14, which was stably transfected with the cDNA of huma...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Nukatsuka M,Saito H,Nakagawa F,Abe M,Uchida J,Shibata J,Matsuo K,Noguchi S,Kiniwa M

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer and associated with early metastasis, drug resistance, and poor patient survival. Fork head box M1 (FOXM1) is considered as an emerging molecular target due to its oncogenic role and high overexpression profile in 85% in TNBC. However, ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Hamurcu Z,Kahraman N,Ashour A,Ozpolat B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the prognostic significance of proliferation, as assessed by Ki67 expression, in breast cancer before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS:A retrospective search of a prospectively maintained clinical database was performed to identify patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy at the Roy...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Jones RL,Salter J,A'Hern R,Nerurkar A,Parton M,Reis-Filho JS,Smith IE,Dowsett M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is emerging as the new standard of care for breast cancer screening based on improved cancer detection coupled with reductions in recall compared to screening with digital mammography (DM) alone. However, many prior studies lack follow-up data to assess false negatives examinations. ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Conant EF,Beaber EF,Sprague BL,Herschorn SD,Weaver DL,Onega T,Tosteson AN,McCarthy AM,Poplack SP,Haas JS,Armstrong K,Schnall MD,Barlow WE

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the breast is very rare in childhood, accounting for less than 1% of all childhood malignancies and is especially rare in boys. Delay in diagnosis and treatment in children with breast cancer may occur because surgeons are very reluctant to perform biopsies on the developing breast, since these can cause ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Cabello C,Alvarenga M,Alvarenga CA,Duarte GM,Pereira PN,Marshall PS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is well recognized to have beneficial effects for the treatment of advanced breast cancer which are comparable to those achieved with other forms of endocrine therapy. Using mammary tumors induced in the rat by dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) as a model, we have studied the possibili...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Labrie F,Li S,Bélanger A,Côté J,Mérand Y,Lepage M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis and treatment of patients with breast cancer is beginning to be influenced by new ideas and discoveries emerging from the field of angiogenesis research. This field, pursued in the laboratory for more than 20 years, has in the past 5 years generated clinical applications. Some of these applications have ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Folkman J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2), plays an important functional role in DNA damage repair. Recent studies indicate that germline mutations in PALB2 predispose individuals to a high risk of developing familial breast cancer. Therefore, comprehensive identification of PALB2 germline mutations is potentially import...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Downs B,Kim YC,Xiao F,Snyder C,Chen P,Fleissner EA,Becirovic D,Wen H,Sherman S,Cowan KH,Lynch HT,Wang SM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-transfection studies indicate that HER2 (erbB-2) overexpression results in the phosphorylation and enhanced transcriptional activity of the androgen receptor (AR). This amplification of AR action is further enhanced by the expression of ARA70, a putative co-activator with a predilection for the AR. Because androgen...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kollara A,Kahn HJ,Marks A,Brown TJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited number of studies have associated adjuvant chemotherapy with structural brain changes. These studies had small sample sizes and were conducted shortly after cessation of chemotherapy. Results of these studies indicate local gray matter volume decrease and an increase in white matter lesions. Up till now, it ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Koppelmans V,de Ruiter MB,van der Lijn F,Boogerd W,Seynaeve C,van der Lugt A,Vrooman H,Niessen WJ,Breteler MM,Schagen SB

更新日期：2012-04-01 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

authors： Fasching PA,Loehberg CR,Strissel PL,Lux MP,Bani MR,Schrauder M,Geiler S,Ringleff K,Oeser S,Weihbrecht S,Schulz-Wendtland R,Hartmann A,Beckmann MW,Strick R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous allelic variants identified in the familial breast cancer and DNA repair genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are of unknown impact on protein function or clinical relevance, referred to as unclassified variants (UCV). Lymphocytes from pathogenic BRCA1/2 mutation carriers exhibit an increased level of chromosomal damage aft...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Becker AA,Graeser MK,Landwehr C,Hilger T,Baus W,Wappenschmidt B,Meindl A,Weber RG,Schmutzler RK

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to identify and validate copy number aberrations in early-stage primary breast tumors associated with bone or non-bone metastasis. Whole-genome molecular inversion probe arrays were used to evaluate copy number imbalances (CNIs) in breast tumors from 960 early-stage patients with information a...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Liu Y,Zhou R,Baumbusch LO,Tsavachidis S,Brewster AM,Do KA,Sahin A,Hortobagyi GN,Taube JH,Mani SA,Aarøe J,Wärnberg F,Børresen-Dale AL,Mills GB,Thompson PA,Bondy ML

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the value of 99m-Tc-tetrofosmin (tetrofosmin) scintigraphy in patients with palpable and nonpalpable breast lesions. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Prospective, blinded trial. One hundred and fifty-nine consecutive patients with 163 breast lesions detected by clinical examination and mammography were included....

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Obwegeser R,Berghammer P,Muellauer-Ertl S,Kubista E,Sinzinger H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroma formation after axillary lymphadenectomy in women with breast cancer remains a problem despite many efforts to reduce surgery-related morbidity. In a prospective, randomised, open, parallel-group, controlled clinical trial we evaluated the effect of a fibrin-glue coated collagen patch (TachoComb H, Nycomed Phar...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Berger A,Tempfer C,Hartmann B,Kornprat P,Rossmann A,Neuwirth G,Tulusan A,Kubista E

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ductal carcinoma in situ (intraductal carcinoma) of the breast is a commonly recognized and curable clinical entity. Patients with intraductal carcinoma are at risk to develop invasive breast cancer presumably due to a transition from the noninvasive to the invasive phase of growth. Primary breast malignancies commonl...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Iglehart JD,Kerns BJ,Huper G,Marks JR

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To report on a highly unusual case of a 20-year-old woman who presented with multifocal metaplastic breast cancer and was subsequently found to carry deleterious germline mutations in both BRCA1 and p53. Genetic testing was requested on an expedited basis to assist in surgical decision-making and BRCA1/2 and p53 genet...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Bell K,Hodgson N,Levine M,Sadikovic B,Zbuk K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A multicenter phase II study was conducted to analyze the clinical activity of the steroidal aromatase inhibitor exemestane in the neoadjuvant treatment of post-menopausal women with strongly ER- and/or PgR- positive operable breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From September 2000 to December 2003, 80 women...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Mlineritsch B,Tausch C,Singer C,Luschin-Ebengreuth G,Jakesz R,Ploner F,Stierer M,Melbinger E,Menzel C,Urbania A,Fridrik M,Steger G,Wohlmuth P,Gnant M,Greil R,Austrian Breast, Colorectal Cancer Study Group (ABCSG).

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tamoxifen has been a standard first-line endocrine therapy for post-menopausal women with hormone-responsive advanced breast cancer, but more than half of patients fail to respond and time to progression is less than 12 months in responders. The third-generation aromatase inhibitors were developed to provide more effe...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Mouridsen HT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Save Our Sisters Project builds on the roles of 95 "natural helpers" to increase mammography screening among older African American women in a NC county. Natural helpers are lay people to whom others naturally turn for advice, emotional support, and tangible aid. Findings from 14 focus group interviews showed that...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Eng E,Smith J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the inhibitory effect of 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (5 alpha-DHT) and its precursors testosterone (T) and androst-4-ene-3,17-dione (delta 4-DIONE) on the growth of the estrogen-sensitive human breast cancer cell line ZR-75-1. In the absence of estrogens, cell proliferation measured after a 12-day...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Poulin R,Baker D,Labrie F

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The use of adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) in the management of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is increasing. Left-sided breast irradiation may involve exposure of the heart to ionising radiation, increasing the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD). We examined the incidence of IHD in a population-based cohort of w...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Wadsten C,Wennstig AK,Garmo H,Nilsson G,Blomqvist C,Holmberg L,Fredriksson I,Wärnberg F,Sund M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential advantage of using quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) methodology to detect metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) of breast cancer (BC) patients was evaluated in this prospective study. We measured the expression of relevant gene transcripts in SLNs using an innova...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Wallwiener CW,Wallwiener M,Kurth RR,Röhm C,Neubauer H,Banys MJ,Staebler A,Schönfisch B,Meuer SC,Giese T,Fehm TN

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFr) levels were analyzed in 140 primary breast cancer specimens by immunohistochemical assay (ICA), competitive binding assay (BA), or enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Thirty-nine of 118 specimens (33.1%) were scored as positive by ICA, 30 of 116 (25.9%; cut-off level 10 fmol/mg protein) b...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Iwase H,Kobayashi S,Itoh Y,Kuzushima T,Yamashita H,Iwata H,Naito A,Yamashita T,Itoh K,Masaoka A

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality due to causes other than breast cancer is a potential competing risk which may alter the incidence probability of breast cancer and as such should be taken into account in predictive modelling. We used data from the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS), which consist of two randomized controlled ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Taghipour S,Banjevic D,Fernandes J,Miller AB,Montgomery N,Harvey BJ,Jardine AK

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the psychosocial concomitants of early-stage breast cancer have been well-documented, the relationship between cancer recurrence and quality of life remains less clear. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal study in order to clarify the relationship between recurrent cancer and quality of life, and to dete...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Bull AA,Meyerowitz BE,Hart S,Mosconi P,Apolone G,Liberati A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explain a bimodal relapse hazard among early stage breast cancer patients treated by mastectomy we postulated that relapses within 4 years of surgery resulted from something that happened at about the time of surgery to provoke sudden exits from dormant phases to active growth. Relapses at 10 months appeared to be ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Retsky M,Rogers R,Demicheli R,Hrushesky WJ,Gukas I,Vaidya JS,Baum M,Forget P,Dekock M,Pachmann K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the prognostic relevance of Ki-67 and topoisomerase IIalpha expression in relation to tumor stage, grade, and hormone receptor content, 942 ductal infiltrating carcinomas of the breast were examined by means of the monoclonal antibodies Ki-S11 (Ki-67) and Ki-S4 (topoisomerase IIalpha). pS2, c-erbB2, and p5...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Rudolph P,MacGrogan G,Bonichon F,Frahm SO,de Mascarel I,Trojani M,Durand M,Avril A,Coindre JM,Parwaresch R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We evaluated the prognostic value of lymphoscintigraphy after complex decongestive therapy (CDT) in breast cancer-related secondary lymphedema. METHODS:Prior to CDT, 80 patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema underwent a 99mTc tin-colloid lymphoscintigram. We investigated the uptake patterns of axillary...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kim YH,Hwang JH,Bae JH,Choi JY

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-five breast cancer specimens were processed as part of a program in tumor acquisition, propagation, and preservation for biotherapy. Nine long-term culture cell lines were developed. Four cell lines were from solid tumor metastases, two lines were from pleural fluid specimens, and three were from xenograft tumo...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Lewko WM,Vaghmar R,Hubbard D,Moore M,He YJ,Chang L,Husseini S,Wallwork K,Thurman GB,Oldham RK

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00