Analysis of predictive factors for lung injury after forward-planned intensity-modulated radiotherapy in whole breast irradiation.

abstract：PURPOSE:The reliability of the quantitative measurement of breast density with a semi-automated thresholding method (Cumulus™) has mainly been investigated with film mammograms. This study aimed to evaluate the intrarater reproducibility of percent density (PD) by Cumulus™ with digital mammograms. METHODS:This study i...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Sohn G,Lee JW,Park SW,Park J,Woo J,Kim HJ,Shin HJ,Kim HH,Jung KH,Sung J,Lee SW,Son BH,Ahn SH

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We evaluated the effect of local recurrence (LR) and regional recurrence (RR) on distant metastasis and survival in patients treated with breast conservation therapy (BCT). METHODS:We analyzed 907 patients who were treated for invasive breast cancer between 1993 and 2006. With 53 months of follow-up, 28 patien...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Lee JS,Kim SI,Park HS,Lee JS,Park S,Park BW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Re-excisions after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for breast cancer cause delays in the adjuvant treatment, increased morbidity, and leads to poor aesthetic results. Thus, efforts to reduce the re-excision rate are essential. This study aimed to conclusively determine the re-excision rate and the factors assoc...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Jung W,Kang E,Kim SM,Kim D,Hwang Y,Sun Y,Yom CK,Kim SW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis associated with brain metastasis arising from breast cancer is very poor. Eribulin is a microtubule dynamic inhibitor synthesized from halichondrin B, a natural marine product. In a phase III study (EMBRACE), eribulin improved overall survival in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic breast cancers...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Byun KD,Ahn SG,Baik HJ,Lee A,Bae KB,An MS,Kim KH,Shin JH,Park HK,Cho H,Jeong J,Kim TH

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internationally, breast cancer is the most common female cancer, and is induced by a combination of environmental, genetic, and epigenetic risk factors. Despite the advancement of imaging techniques, invasive sampling of breast epithelial cells is the only definitive diagnostic procedure for patients with breast cance...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Cheuk IW,Shin VY,Kwong A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apocrine encapsulated papillary carcinoma (EPC) of the breast is a rare neoplasm, and only 10 cases have been reported in the literature to date. Although EPC by definition lacks a peripheral myoepithelial layer, all previously published apocrine EPC cases were clinically indolent and lacked a conventional invasive co...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Kővári B,Ormándi K,Simonka Z,Vörös A,Cserni G

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a review of the literature examining the use of medical simulations to teach our future healthcare providers how to diagnose breast cancer. MEDLINE and Embase databases were searched to identify the literature published between 1990 and 2014. In total, 113 articles were retrieved and evaluated for their ...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Simpson JS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with recurrent breast cancer usually die of their disease, even after radical surgery and adjuvant therapies which could reduce the odds of dying. Many studies analyzed and compared patients who died of recurrent disease with those that died without recurrent disease. However, less attention has been p...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Song WJ,Kim KI,Park SH,Kwon MS,Lee TH,Park HK,An JS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) and to compare the clinicopathological features and treatment results after breast conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy between ILC and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). METHODS:A total of 1,071 patients who u...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Park JS,Choi DH,Huh SJ,Park W,Kim YI,Nam SJ,Lee JE,Kil WH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains challenging, due to the absence of estrogen, progesterone, and human epidermal growth factor receptors. This study was designed to evaluate the efficiency and safety of cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell immunotherapy, following regular chemotherapy,...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Li M,Wang Y,Wei F,An X,Zhang N,Cao S,Ren B,Zhang X,Ren X

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Previous oncological studies showed that lymph node ratio (LNR) (ratio of number of lymph nodes that tested positive for metastasis to the total number of lymph nodes examined) is a negative indicator of cancer survival. The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system incorporates tumor size, lymph...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Hung M,Xu J,Nielson D,Bounsanga J,Gu Y,Hansen AR,Voss MW

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Breast cancer subtype correlates with response to systemic therapy and overall survival (OS), but its impact on lymphatic spread is incompletely understood. In this study, we used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry to assess whether the subtype can predict the presence of nodal metastasis ...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Mattes MD,Bhatia JK,Metzger D,Ashamalla H,Katsoulakis E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated the feasibility of using surgical clips as markers for tumor localization and their effect on the imaging evaluation of treatment responses after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). METHODS:A total of 16 breast cancers confirmed by needle biopsy in 15 patients were included in this study from Octob...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Youn I,Choi SH,Kook SH,Choi YJ,Park CH,Park YL,Kim DH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The aim of this study was to investigate the association of telomere length with breast cancer risk. We simultaneously explored the association between telomerase reverse transcriptase gene polymorphisms and telomere length. Methods:We used real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction to measure relative t...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Wang Z,Zhang Z,Guo Y,Shui H,Liu G,Jin T,Wang H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the significance of the cortex-hilum (CH) area ratio and longitudinal-transverse (LT) axis ratio and the blood flow pattern for diagnosis of metastatic axillary lymph nodes by ultrasound in breast cancer patients. METHODS:From October 2005 to July 2006, we prospectively evaluated axillary nodes ...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Song SE,Seo BK,Lee SH,Yie A,Lee KY,Cho KR,Woo OH,Cha SH,Kim BH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Breast cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, administered in combination with glucocorticoids can induce hyperglycemia. This study aimed to investigate the effect of hyperglycemia during adjuvant chemotherapy on the prognosis of breast cancer patients without a known history of diabetes. Methods:In this s...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Ahn HR,Kang SY,Youn HJ,Jung SH

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma rarely originates from the female nipple. Tumors that develop on the skin of the breast are often subject to a delayed diagnosis. Cytologic examination provides excellent diagnostic capabilities and is a safe procedure with a lower risk of local implantation, compared to needle or incisional biopsy....

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Nagata Y,Yoshioka M,Uramoto H,Tsurudome Y,Yamada S,Hanagiri T,Tanaka F

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study assessed the incidence and cancer rate of probably benign lesions detected on bilateral whole-breast screening ultrasound (US), which corresponded to US Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) category 3, and evaluated the proper management of those lesions. METHODS:This study was approve...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Nam SY,Ko EY,Han BK,Shin JH,Ko ES,Hahn SY

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Whether tamoxifen affects the risk of neurodegenerative disease is controversial. This nationwide population-based study investigated the risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) associated with tamoxifen treatment in female patients with breast cancer using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. Method...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Hong CT,Chan L,Hu CJ,Lin CM,Hsu CY,Lin MC

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is associated with poor prognosis with limited treatment options. Angiogenesis is known to be involved in the progression of TNBC, and targeting this pathway results in modest clinical benefits. In this study, we analyzed the role of tumor microvascular endothelial Notch1 (E...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Kim D,Lee J,Kang J,Kim SH,Yoo TK,Oh S,Lee A

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The MammaPrint™ gene signature, currently used in clinical practice, provides prognostic information regarding the recurrence and potential metastasis in breast cancer patients. However, the prognostic information of the 70 genes included can only be estimated at the RNA expression level. In this study, we inve...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Fatima A,Tariq F,Malik MFA,Qasim M,Haq F

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple symmetric lipomatosis (MSL), or Madelung's disease, is a rare disease of unknown etiology. It is characterized by the presence of loose adipose tissue deposits localized in the cervical region and upper body. MSL presenting as bilateral huge gynecomastia is an extremely rare phenomenon. The present report des...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Jang JH,Lee A,Han SA,Ryu JK,Song JY

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a pathological specimen of breast cancer cells, retraction artifact during histological processing mimics true lymphovascular invasion (LVI). The accurate determination of the presence or absence of LVI is a factor in determining risk of having a positive sentinel node, or having additional positive axillary nodes ...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Zaorsky NG,Patil N,Freedman GM,Tuluc M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen is crucial to maintain the homeostasis in aerobic cells. Hypoxia is a condition in which cells are deprived of the oxygen supply necessary for their optimum performance. Whereas oxygen deprivation may occur in normal physiological processes, hypoxia is frequently associated with pathological conditions. It has ...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Daimiel I

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Somatic mutations of the chromatin remodeling AT-rich interactive domain 1A (SWI-like) gene (ARID1A) have been identified in many human cancers, including breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nuclear expression of ARID1A in breast cancers by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and to correlate th...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Cho HD,Lee JE,Jung HY,Oh MH,Lee JH,Jang SH,Kim KJ,Han SW,Kim SY,Kim HJ,Bae SB,Lee HJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ESR1 mutation is frequently encountered in hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC), especially after aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy, as a mechanism of resistance to endocrine therapy. Circulating tumor DNA-based detection of ESR1 mutatio...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Carausu M,Melaabi S,Pierga JY,Bidard FC,Cabel L

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to confirm the prognostic and predictive value of p53 expression, particularly in invasive breast cancer patients, according to immunohistochemical hormone receptor (HR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status. METHODS:Immunohistochemical data for p53, estrogen receptor, progesteron...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Ahn SH,Kim HJ,Han W,Cho J,Gong G,Jung KH,Kim SB,Son BH,Lee JW

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncoplastic surgery has revolutionized the field of breast conserving surgery (BCS). The final aims of this technique are to obtain an adequate resection margin that will reduce the rate of local recurrence while simultaneously improving cosmetic outcomes. To obtain successful results after oncoplastic surgery, it is ...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Yang JD,Lee JW,Kim WW,Jung JH,Park HY

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast metastasis from gastric carcinoma is rare. We present a case of right breast mass with microcalcification in which the diagnosis of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma from the stomach was made after a biopsy. Pleomorphic microcalcification was noted in the ill-defined breast mass, which is a rare feature in b...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Luk YS,Ka SY,Lo SS,Chu CY,Ma MW

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study is to explore signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) expression in breast cancer and to analyze the detailed mechanism that STAT3 contributes to the progression of breast cancer. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathologic characteristics and overall surv...

journal_title：Journal of breast cancer

authors： Chen Y,Wang J,Wang X,Liu X,Li H,Lv Q,Zhu J,Wei B,Tang Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00