Combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, adriamycin, and dexamethasone (CVAD) plus oral quinine and verapamil in patients with advanced breast cancer.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an additional, individualized, multi-component complementary medicine treatment offered to breast cancer patients at the Merano Hospital (South Tyrol) on health-related quality of life compared to patients receiving usual care only. A randomized pragmatic tria...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Witt CM,Außerer O,Baier S,Heidegger H,Icke K,Mayr O,Mitterer M,Roll S,Spizzo G,Scherer A,Thuile C,Wieser A,Schützler L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The RAS family comprises three proto-oncogenes (H-RAS, K-RAS, and N-RAS) and is among the most widely studied of oncogenes. The present study aimed at investigating the clinical relevance of mRNA levels of the three isoforms in a large group of breast cancer patients with a long-term follow-up. METHODS:198 pre...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Banys-Paluchowski M,Milde-Langosch K,Fehm T,Witzel I,Oliveira-Ferrer L,Schmalfeldt B,Müller V

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about long-term consequences of breast cancer treatment on shoulder and arm function and volume in stages I-II breast cancer survivors is limited. The effects of shoulder-arm function shortly after surgery on long-term function are unknown. One hundred and ninety-four women were examined pre-surgery (T0) and...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kootstra JJ,Dijkstra PU,Rietman H,de Vries J,Baas P,Geertzen JH,Hoekstra HJ,Hoekstra-Weebers JE

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the efficacy and safety of a 3-monthly 10.8-mg depot goserelin (Zoladex(TM)) injection with the current 3.6 mg monthly dose in pre-menopausal Japanese women with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) early breast cancer. This was a multicenter, open-label, randomized study. Primary endpoint was a non-in...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Masuda N,Iwata H,Rai Y,Anan K,Takeuchi T,Kohno N,Takei H,Yanagita Y,Noguchi S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent SEER study identified significant variations in the care of women with DCIS, yet several potential confounding variables were not included. We report a patterns of care study of women with DCIS to better understand the gap between evidence-based knowledge and the management of DCIS. METHODS:We stud...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Rakovitch E,Pignol JP,Chartier C,Hanna W,Kahn H,Wong J,Mai V,Paszat L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Droloxifene, a new antiestrogen, has theoretical advantages over tamoxifen based on preclinical data. These include higher affinity to the estrogen receptor, higher antiestrogenic to estrogenic ratio, and more effective inhibition of cell growth and division in ER positive cell lines, as well as less toxicity, includi...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Rauschning W,Pritchard KI

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to characterize primitive epithelial progenitor populations present in adult normal human mammary tissue using a combination of flow cytometry and in vitro colony assay procedures. Three types of human breast epithelial cell (HBEC) progenitors were identified: luminal-restricted, m...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Stingl J,Eaves CJ,Zandieh I,Emerman JT

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:We examined the role of Mcl-1 and Bcl-2 expression in the induction of apoptosis. through blocking protein tyrosine kinase (PTK), protein kinase C (PKC), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (P13-K) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)/Erk kinase (MEK) signaling pathways by various kinase inhibitors in MCF-7 breast ca...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Hu Y,Dragowska WH,Wallis A,Duronio V,Mayer L

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The results of studies comparing survival in familial and sporadic breast cancer (BC) are inconsistent. A higher incidence of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) has been reported in familial BC. Ascertainment bias may influence both the reported familial CBC and survival. DESIGN:We assessed CBC incidence, dista...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Tilanus-Linthorst MM,Bartels KC,Alves C,Bakri B,Crepin E,van den Ouweland A,Klijn JG,Meijers-Heijboer H,Brekelmans CT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We studied which, age of the patient or density of the breast accounts for the sensitivity of mammography and ultrasonography (US). Furthermore we studied whether the overall impression on the density of the breast or the density in tumour area accounts for the sensitivity of mammography and ultrasonography. M...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Saarenmaa I,Salminen T,Geiger U,Heikkinen P,Hyvärinen S,Isola J,Kataja V,Kokko ML,Kokko R,Kumpulainen E,Kärkkäinen A,Pakkanen J,Peltonen P,Piironen A,Salo A,Talviala ML,Haka M

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. The laboratory rat treated with strong carcinogen is the most commonly used animal model for study of breast cancer. Transgenic mouse lines with homologues of human breast cancer oncogenes have been developed. The transgenic mouse line TG.NK with c-neu, the hum...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Rao GN,Ney E,Herbert RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth, progression, and metastasis of breast cancer, as well as of most of the other tumors, are angiogenesis-dependent processes. Several pro-angiogenic growth factors and endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis have been identified and sequenced, and experimental studies suggest that angiogenic activity of a tumor ma...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Locopo N,Fanelli M,Gasparini G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While many reports describe health-related quality of life (QOL) among breast cancer survivors, few compare QOL before and after diagnosis and whether changes in QOL substantially differ from changes experienced by all women during aging. QOL was examined in a cohort of female residents of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, aged ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Trentham-Dietz A,Sprague BL,Klein R,Klein BE,Cruickshanks KJ,Fryback DG,Hampton JM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancers lack estrogen receptor α (ERα), progesterone receptor, and do not overexpress human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (Her-2). They are neither susceptible to endocrine therapy nor to a therapy using the anti-Her-2 antibody, trastuzumab. Therefore, an efficient targeted therapy is warra...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Girgert R,Emons G,Gründker C

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) is not fully explained by an estrogen receptor (ER) switch model that simply turns estrogen activity on or off. A better understanding of the mechanisms involved in estrogen signaling and the development of drug resistance could help stratify patients into...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： McCafferty MP,McNeill RE,Miller N,Kerin MJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is abundant information about the independent effects of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) on outcomes of breast cancer, comparatively little is known about the impact of joint (ER+PR+, ER+PR-, ER-PR+ and ER-PR-) ERPR expression. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognost...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ouyang Y,Li D,Pater JL,Levine M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:miRNAs regulate the expression of genes in both normal physiology and disease. While miRNAs have been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in aspects of cancer biology, these reports have generally focused on the regulation of single genes. Such single-gene approaches have significant limitations, relying on miRNA expr...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Pillai MM,Gillen AE,Yamamoto TM,Kline E,Brown J,Flory K,Hesselberth JR,Kabos P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pp32 gene family consists of at least three closely related members, pp32, pp32r1 and pp32r2. In spite of a high degree of identity at the nucleotide level, pp32 functionally behaves as a tumor suppressor where as pp32r1 and pp32r2 are pro-oncogenic. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine pp32-related ex...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kadkol SS,El Naga GA,Brody JR,Bai J,Gusev Y,Dooley WC,Pasternack GR

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between mammography interval and breast cancer mortality among older women with breast cancer. The study population included 1,914 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at age 75 or later during their participation in the Women's health initiative, with a...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Simon MS,Wassertheil-Smoller S,Thomson CA,Ray RM,Hubbell FA,Lessin L,Lane DS,Kuller LH

更新日期：2014-11-01 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:Fulvestrant is a selective estrogen receptor downregulator (SERD) that is approved for first- or second-line use as a single agent or in combination with cyclin dependent kinase or phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase inhibitors for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Fulvestrant exhibits exceptionally effectiv...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Wardell SE,Yllanes AP,Chao CA,Bae Y,Andreano KJ,Desautels TK,Heetderks KA,Blitzer JT,Norris JD,McDonnell DP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Z0011 trial initiated a paradigm shift in the axillary treatment of breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), disregarding patients with a positive ultrasound-guided lymph node biopsy (UGLNB). We examined whether relevant differences exist between these patients to determi...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Verheuvel NC,Voogd AC,Tjan-Heijnen VCG,Siesling S,Roumen RMH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to investigate whether young age at onset of breast cancer is an independent prognostic factor in patients from the Japanese Breast Cancer Registry, after adjustment of known clinicopathological prognostic factors. METHODS:Of the 53,670 patients registered between 2004 and 2006 and su...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kataoka A,Iwamoto T,Tokunaga E,Tomotaki A,Kumamaru H,Miyata H,Niikura N,Kawai M,Anan K,Hayashi N,Masuda S,Tsugawa K,Aogi K,Ishida T,Masuoka H,Iijima K,Kinoshita T,Nakamura S,Tokuda Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) provides a cosmetic and psychological benefit for patients, but concerns on nipple involvement (NI) of tumor continue to persist. Several studies have reported factors for predicting NI, but the results were inconsistent and uncomprehensive, making patient selection difficult. The aim o...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Zhang H,Li Y,Moran MS,Haffty BG,Yang Q

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inositol hexaphosphate (IP6) is a naturally occurring polyphosphorylated carbohydrate with demonstrated anti-proliferative and anti-cancer activity in mammary cells. We hypothesized that IP6 modulates cell cycle proteins by action on cytoplasmic signaling molecules. The effects of both pharmacological (2 mM) and physi...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Vucenik I,Ramakrishna G,Tantivejkul K,Anderson LM,Ramljak D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in loci of the 10q23 region that harbor the PTEN gene and mutations in the sequence of this gene have been found in several primary human tumors including breast carcinomas, suggesting that this gene could be implicated in their pathogenesis. We investigated allelic losses in microsatellit...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Garcia JM,Silva JM,Dominguez G,Gonzalez R,Navarro A,Carretero L,Provencio M,España P,Bonilla F

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer death in Caribbean women. Across the Caribbean islands, the prevalence of hereditary breast cancer among unselected breast cancer patients ranges from 5 to 25%. Moreover, the prevalence of BC among younger women and the high mortality in the Caribbean regio...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Donenberg T,George S,Ali J,Bravo G,Hernandez K,Sookar N,Ashing KT,Narod SA,Akbari MR,Hurley J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00