abstract：:A single intragastric administration of 7,12-dimethylbenz (a) anthracene (DMBA) has been shown, when given at 55-60 days of age, to induce mammary tumors in young cycling female Sprague-Dawley rats. The appearance of the tumors is preceded by a series of neuroendocrine disturbances of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Yon de Jonage-Canonico MB,Lenoir V,Scholler R,Kerdelhué B

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins can be efficiently introduced into cells when fused to a protein transduction domain, such as Tat from the human immunodeficiency virus. We recently reported that dendritic cells transduced with a Tat fusion protein containing the extracellular domain of Her2/neu (Tat-Her2/neu) induced CD8 cytotoxic T lymphoc...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Viehl CT,Tanaka Y,Chen T,Frey DM,Tran A,Fleming TP,Eberlein TJ,Goedegebuure PS

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Metastasis to the regional lymph nodes through the lymphatic vessels is a common step in the progression of cancer and an important prognostic factor in many types of cancer. Recent evidence suggests that VEGF-C promotes lymphangiogenesis, and that tumor lymphangiogenesis in turn promotes lymphatic metastasis. We have...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Nakamura Y,Yasuoka H,Tsujimoto M,Imabun S,Nakahara M,Nakao K,Nakamura M,Mori I,Kakudo K

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seroma formation, wound healing and fluid drainage are a concern for both surgeons and patients. Excessive fluid production can result in seroma formation, and inadequate drainage of seromas is known to cause infection, pain, discomfort and longer periods of hospitalisation. Postoperative exercises given to ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Shamley DR,Barker K,Simonite V,Beardshaw A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialyl-Tn is a carbohydrate antigen overexpressed in several epithelial cancers including breast cancer, and usually associated with poor prognosis. Sialyl-Tn is synthesized by a CMP-Neu5Ac: GalNAc alpha2,6-sialyltransferase: ST6GalNAc I, which catalyzes the transfer of a sialic acid residue in alpha2,6-linkage to the...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Julien S,Lagadec C,Krzewinski-Recchi MA,Courtand G,Le Bourhis X,Delannoy P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMS) are frequently used by patients with breast cancer and their use may be related to the presence of psychosocial distress. The objective of this study is to assess the presence of anxiety and depression in breast cancer patients who use CAM and assess how they perce...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Rakovitch E,Pignol JP,Chartier C,Ezer M,Verma S,Dranitsaris G,Clemons M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although breast cancer familial aggregation has been studied in Caucasians, information for African-Americans is scant. We used family cancer history from the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences study to assess the aggregation of breast and gynecological cancers in African-American and Caucasian familie...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Simon MS,Korczak JF,Yee CL,Daling JR,Malone KE,Bernstein L,Marchbanks PA,Folger SG,McDonald JA,Norman SA,Strom BL,Deapen D,Ursin G,Burkman RT,Press MF,Schwartz AG,Spirtas R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramammary sentinel lymph node excision during breast conservative surgery was performed, in this case report, using a prototype intraoperative gamma probe. In contrast to the four axillary sentinel lymph nodes that were subnormal, the excised intramammary sentinel lymph node was massively invaded by cancer cells. T...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Mathelin C,Tomasetto C,Rio MC,Chenard MP,Brettes JP,Guyonnet JL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WWOX is a cancer gene, spanning the common chromosomal fragile site 16D. Genomic and expression aberrations affecting this gene and locus are common in various neoplasias including breast cancer. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between WWOX expression at the protein level with respect to ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Nunez MI,Ludes-Meyers J,Abba MC,Kil H,Abbey NW,Page RE,Sahin A,Klein-Szanto AJ,Aldaz CM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We calculated hazard rates for recurrence in patients with primary breast cancer (stage I, II; no adjuvant therapy). Previous publications have indicated a peak in hazard rates for recurrence (or death) at approximately 2-3 years after diagnosis of primary breast cancer. However, there have been conflicting reports co...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Jatoi I,Tsimelzon A,Weiss H,Clark GM,Hilsenbeck SG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gemcitabine and Vinorelbine both as a single agent or associated are active in advanced breast cancer patients as second line therapy, with low toxicity. In the elderly patients polichemotherapy is difficult for co-morbidity, but results with monotherapy are fewer. The use of this association as first line c...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Dinota A,Bilancia D,Romano R,Manzione L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Being at hereditary risk of breast cancer (BC) may lead to elevated levels of distress because of the impact of the BC-process in relatives. OBJECTIVE:Determine the association between psychological distress and BC in relatives. We studied: kind of kinship with the affected relative(s), degree of involvement w...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： van Dooren S,Seynaeve C,Rijnsburger AJ,Duivenvoorden HJ,Essink-Bot ML,Bartels CC,Klijn JG,de Koning HJ,Tibben A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central nervous system (CNS) relapse is increasing in breast cancer. This increase may reflect altered failure patterns from adjuvant therapy, more effective systemic therapy with improved control in non-CNS sites, or a resistant breast cancer subtype. METHODS:To determine the factors associated with clinic...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Carey LA,Ewend MG,Metzger R,Sawyer L,Dees EC,Sartor CI,Moore DT,Graham ML

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study clarified the difference in the effects on serum lipids between toremifene (TOR) and tamoxifen (TAM). To remove influencing factors, we investigated adjuvant therapy for hormone receptor-positive patients with breast cancer without lymph node metastasis. The subjects were 65 patients who were enrolled in a ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kusama M,Miyauchi K,Aoyama H,Sano M,Kimura M,Mitsuyama S,Komaki K,Doihara H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a positive transcriptional element identical to human Ha-ras response element (HRE) within the promoter of the rat Ha-ras gene. We further identified CArG binding factor A (CBF-A), a member of heterogeneous nuclear ribonuclear protein (hnRNP) gene family, as a trans-acting factor that binds th...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Mikheev AM,Inoue A,Jing L,Mikheeva SA,Li V,Leanderson T,Zarbl H

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 account for more than 80% of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. p53 tumor suppressor gene that controls cellular growth and differentiation is also known to be mutated in more than 50% of human cancers including breast cancer. We have carried out a s...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Hedau S,Jain N,Husain SA,Mandal AK,Ray G,Shahid M,Kant R,Gupta V,Shukla NK,Deo SS,Das BC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined a family with a germline BRCA2 mutation in three cases of invasive breast cancer and one case of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) has been demonstrated at the BRCA2 locus in all cases. This result may suggest that the germline mutation in BRCA2 is the initiating step of DC...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Thomassen M,Kruse TA,Olsen KE,Borg A,Gerdes AM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin (RLX) is known to induce remodeling of benign stromal tissues through upregulation of matrix metalloproteases (MMPs). Recently, we could show that RLX also induces MMPs in breast cancer cells and enhances in vitro invasiveness. To investigate its potential role for progression of breast cancer in vivo, RLX ser...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Binder C,Simon A,Binder L,Hagemann T,Schulz M,Emons G,Trümper L,Einspanier A

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on breast cancer recurrence provide a mixed picture of the quality of life of women following a recurrence. To clarify the picture, the present study addresses some previous methodological concerns by offering a multidimensional assessment with follow-up, a matched comparison group of disease-free sur...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Oh S,Heflin L,Meyerowitz BE,Desmond KA,Rowland JH,Ganz PA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological and clinical significance of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the peripheral blood of breast cancer patients is not known. To study this question, we used a direct visualization assay to correlate the number of CTC with disease stage and progression. The CTC were enriched from the nucleated cell fractio...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kahn HJ,Presta A,Yang LY,Blondal J,Trudeau M,Lickley L,Holloway C,McCready DR,Maclean D,Marks A

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Primary chemotherapy is commonly used in patients with breast cancer to downstage the primary tumour prior to surgery. There is a need to establish, prior to commencement of chemotherapy, predictors of clinical and pathological response, which may then be surrogate markers for patient survival and thus allow id...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ogston KN,Miller ID,Schofield AC,Spyrantis A,Pavlidou E,Sarkar TK,Hutcheon AW,Payne S,Heys SD

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IBEP-2, an established cell line recently derived from breast carcinoma, was characterized with regard to estrogen receptor (ER) expression, cell mitogenic response to estrogenic stimulation and sensitivity to antiestrogens. In addition, we examined ER modulation following binding of agonist and antagonists, and the E...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Journé F,Body JJ,Leclercq G,Nonclercq D,Laurent G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined the influence of knowledge of clinical information on the accuracy of mammography in women referred for investigation of breast symptoms. METHODS:Subjects were sampled from all women consecutively attending a symptomatic breast clinic and aged 25-55 years. This included all 240 women show...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Houssami N,Irwig L,Simpson JM,McKessar M,Blome S,Noakes J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The positive effects of tamoxifen (TAM) on breast cancer recurrence and survival as well as on overall mortality have led to its use as the predominant adjuvant therapy among women with breast cancer. However, the association of TAM intake with undesirable side effects has been reported in numerous studies. This analy...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Gallicchio L,Lord G,Tkaczuk K,Danton M,Lewis LM,Lim CK,Flaws JA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report findings from a family-based association study examining the association between polymorphisms in two key estrogen-metabolism genes CYP1B1 (codon 432 G --> C and codon 453 A --> G variants) and COMT (codon 158 G --> A variant) and female breast cancer. We conducted the study among 280 nuclear ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ahsan H,Chen Y,Whittemore AS,Kibriya MG,Gurvich I,Senie RT,Santella RM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-system plays a role in breast cancer susceptibility as well as in growth and progression of breast carcinomas. So far, findings have been based on serum IGF-I levels and semi-quantitative assessment of IGF-system expression levels in model systems and human tissue. Quantitative dat...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Voskuil DW,Bosma A,Vrieling A,Rookus MA,van 't Veer LJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for the isolation of free DNA from ductal lavage (DL) and nipple aspirate fluid (NAF), and its evaluation for the presence of LOH at the BRCA1 and FHIT genes and for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations at the D310 marker, to improve early detection of breast cancer. We evaluated 26 DL and six NAF ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Isaacs C,Cavalli LR,Cohen Y,Pennanen M,Shankar LK,Freedman M,Singh B,Liu M,Gallagher A,Rone JD,Dickson RB,Sidransky D,Haddad BR

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rho family of GTPases has been intensively studied for their roles in signal transduction processes leading to cytoskeletal-dependent responses, including cell migration and phagocytosis. In addition, they are important regulators of cell cycle progression and affect the expression of a number of genes, including ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ridley AJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight gain is a common problem amongst women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer. We undertook a study to determine the causes of this weight gain. Prospective measurements of body mass and composition (skinfolds, bioelectrical impedance, total body potassium), energy balance (resting energy expen...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Harvie MN,Campbell IT,Baildam A,Howell A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor system is a well characterized growth factor receptor pathway, the deregulation of which has been be associated with neoplastic growth. Overexpression or amplification of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or one of its ligands has been linked with the malignant transformation of c...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Rae JM,Lippman ME

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chylous fistulas in cases treated surgically for breast cancer only, are rare. We encountered four chylous fistula cases after breast cancer operations out of a total of 851 cases, all of which involved the left breast. Chylous fistulas were confirmed by axillary white fluid and were unrelated to obesity, surgical met...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Nakajima E,Iwata H,Iwase T,Murai H,Mizutani M,Miura S,Kato H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:When combined with anthracyclines, the humanized anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin) provides significant clinical benefit for women with HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer. However, its use is limited by severe cardiotoxicity. To clarify whether myocardial HER2 and HER4 expression i...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Fuchs IB,Landt S,Bueler H,Kuehl U,Coupland S,Kleine-Tebbe A,Lichtenegger W,Schaller G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestrogen receptor (ER) levels are usually maintained on acquisition of tamoxifen resistance in the clinic, however, tumour re-growth is associated with increased expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and activation of the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. In the present study we have us...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Hutcheson IR,Knowlden JM,Madden TA,Barrow D,Gee JM,Wakeling AE,Nicholson RI

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) are enriched in tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), and may represent a superior source of CTL compare to peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), for adoptive T cell immunotherapy of breast cancer. However, the immunocompetence of TIL and the possibility to consistentl...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kass R,Bellone S,Palmieri M,Canè S,Bignotti E,Henry-Tillman R,Hutchins L,Cannon MJ,Klimberg S,Santin AD

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-11 (IL-11) are frequently produced by breast cancer cells. These interleukins promote osteoclast formation and may mediate osteolysis at the site of breast cancer bone metastases. Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-1b...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Suarez-Cuervo C,Harris KW,Kallman L,Väänänen HK,Selander KS

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To report Chinese women's preferred and perceived participation in breast cancer treatment decision making (TDM), describe influences on women's participation preference and participation congruence (PC) (correspondence between preferred and actual amount of participation in TDM), and explore subsequent satisfa...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Lam W,Fielding R,Chan M,Chow L,Ho E

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several recent epidemiologic studies examined the association between breast cancer risk and an inherited, single-nucleotide polymorphism in the HER2 gene, codon 655 G to A, which leads to an amino acid substitution of Ile to Val. Results of previous studies have been mixed, with most studies showing no asso...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Millikan R,Eaton A,Worley K,Biscocho L,Hodgson E,Huang WY,Geradts J,Iacocca M,Cowan D,Conway K,Dressler L

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-beta (TGFB) is a potent inhibitor of normal epithelial cell proliferation, and may be one of the regulatory factors that are perturbed during tumor development. While many tumor cell lines no longer respond to the inhibitory effects of TGFB due to a reduction or absence of the type II recept...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Barlow J,Yandell D,Weaver D,Casey T,Plaut K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcalcifications containing calcium hydroxyapatite (HA) are often associated with malignant human breast lesions. Frequently, they are the only mammographic features that indicate the presence of a tumoural lesion. We previously reported the induction of both mitogenesis and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production and t...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Cooke MM,McCarthy GM,Sallis JD,Morgan MP

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00