abstract：:Monitoring effective antiestrogenic activity of the triphenylethylenes in patients with breast cancer is usually determined by the duration of response. The pharmacokinetics of toremifene and tamoxifen have been shown to be highly variable but patient specific. In the present study, we developed a method to accurately...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： DeGregorio M,Wurz G,Emshoff V,Koester S,Minor P,Wiebe V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha) stimulates breast cancer cell proliferation is largely unknown. Furthermore, its potential role as an autocrine effector of estradiol-17 beta (E2)-stimulated growth of hormone-dependent mammary tumors remains controversial. Transient changes in phosph...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Etindi RN,Manni A,Martel J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic value of proliferative activity and its relationship with steroid hormone receptors and histopathological grade have been demonstrated for breast cancers. However, nothing is known about the underlying mechanisms. In order to understand the chronology of the appearance of increased proliferative activit...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Remvikos Y,Gerbault-Seureau M,Magdelénat H,Prieur M,Dutrillaux B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of localized breast cancer now commonly involves a breast-sparing approach combined with systemic adjuvant therapy resulting in improved cosmetic results and patient survival. Reducing dietary fat intake represents a conceptually new approach to further improve outcome of patients with resected breast cance...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Chlebowski RT,Rose D,Buzzard IM,Blackburn GL,Insull W Jr,Grosvenor M,Elashoff R,Wynder EL

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since our previous findings had indicated that the androgenic steroid medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) exerts potent inhibitory effects on 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA)-induced tumor growth, we have studied the effect of low doses of MPA released from Depo-Provera and from 50:50 poly[DL-lactide-co-glycolide] ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

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

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the levels of tamoxifen and three of its metabolites in the blood of patients receiving tamoxifen alone or combination therapy with tamoxifen and medroxyprogesterone acetate. Our results indicate that addition of the progestogen significantly alters the metabolism of tamoxifen over a six-month period....

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Reid AD,Horobin JM,Newman EL,Preece PE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportional hazards model is frequently used in analyzing the results of clinical trials, when it is often the case that the outcomes are right-censored. This model allows one to measure treatment effects and simultaneously identify and adjust for prognostic factors that might influence the outcome. In this paper...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Hastie T,Sleeper L,Tibshirani R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight patients with advanced breast cancer refractory to prior hormone and/or first-line chemotherapy (with or without anthracycline drugs) were treated with the investigational agent amonafide at a dose of 800 mg/m2 intravenously over 3 hours repeated every 4 weeks. Five objective tumour responses of 5.0 month...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Scheithauer W,Dittrich C,Kornek G,Haider K,Linkesch W,Gisslinger H,Depisch D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a polymorphism in the human estrogen receptor (ER) gene, within the coding region for the protein's amino terminal B-domain. In estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast tumors, the variant allele was preferentially associated with lower levels of ER, and was clinically correlated with frequent ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Schmutzler RK,Sanchez M,Lehrer S,Chaparro CA,Phillips C,Rabin J,Schachter B

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dose-response relationship has been suggested for medroxyprogesterone acetate in the treatment of advanced breast cancer. To determine the tolerability and efficacy of increasing doses of megestrol acetate in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, we conducted a phase I/II study among 57 patients. Three patients...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Parnes HL,Abrams JS,Tchekmedyian NS,Tait N,Aisner J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies we demonstrated that rat mammary tumor (RMT) cells that are serially transplantable consist of cells that are independent of growth factors strictly required by normal rat mammary epithelial (RME) cells for growth in serum-free culture. The present studies were designed to determine the extent of t...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ethier SP,Moorthy R

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biology of breast cancer in Japan appears to be changing in that, while post-menopausal Japanese patients have a better prognosis than comparable British women, no differences in recurrence or survival rates can now be found in pre-menopausal patients. ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Allen DS,Bulbrook RD,Chaudary MA,Hayward JL,Yoshida M,Miura S,Murai JT

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of comparative pathology studies of breast cancer among Japanese women and other ethnic groups reveals consistent differences in tumor morphology and host response. Japanese women show lower rates of breast cancer than Caucasian women, a difference that is accounted for by increased rates of this cancer in post...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Stemmermann GN

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have qualitatively evaluated the retention of the fluorescent dye rhodamine 123 by malignant or non-malignant breast epithelial cells in passively-infused fresh surgical specimens. Our findings demonstrate a microscopically-visible increase in the ability of primary and metastatic tumor cells to retain the dye, as ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Dairkee SH,Hackett AJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were designed to evaluate in vivo the differential sensitivity of tumor cell subpopulations to hormone and polyamine manipulations using the hormone-responsive N-nitrosomethyl-urea (NMU)-induced rat mammary tumor. NMU tumor bearing rats were randomly assigned to control, ovariectomy, alpha-difl...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Manni A,Lancaster S,English H,Badger B,Lynch J,Demers L

更新日期：1991-01-01 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

abstract：:Toremifene is a triphenylethylene derivative structurally and pharmacologically similar to tamoxifen. This Phase I trial assessed the safety, pharmacokinetics, anti-estrogenic, and estrogenic effects of toremifene at six dose levels (10, 20, 40, 60, 200, and 400 mg/day). The most common side-effects associated with th...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Kohler PC,Hamm JT,Wiebe VJ,DeGregorio MW,Shemano I,Tormey DC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mammary epithelial antigens (HME-Ags) are released into the circulation by breast tumors and not by normal breast tissue (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74: 582-586, 1977). This characteristic made them valuable, together with other breast cancer related antigens later identified, to develop immunoassays useful in t...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ceriani RL,Blank EW,Rosenbaum EH,Ben Zeev D,Lowitz RS,Johansen L,Trujillo T

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients from hereditary breast cancer-prone (HBC) families provide one of the most powerful and potentially cost effective models for cancer prevention and control. Paradoxically, this opportunity is often missed in the clinical practice setting due, in part, to inattention to the family history and/or lack of knowle...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Lynch HT,Watson P,Conway TA,Lynch JF

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune-deficient nude mouse with human tumor xenografts is an appropriate model system for performing detailed growth kinetic examinations. In the present study one estrogen and progesterone receptor-negative (T60) and three receptor-positive (Br-10, MCF-7, T61) human breast cancer xenografts in nude mice were inv...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Spang-Thomsen M,Rygaard K,Hansen L,Halvorsen AC,Vindeløv LL,Brünner N

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human estrogen receptor (ER) cDNA probe was used to examine genomic DNA extracted from 59 primary invasive breast cancers. The tumors were also studied histopathologically, and their ER status was assessed by hormone-binding assay and immunohistochemical analysis. Southern blots of genomic DNA samples digested with ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Parl FF,Cavener DR,Dupont WD

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than 100 reported randomized trials of systemic adjuvant therapy in breast cancer, it is clear that this therapy will prolong the time to recurrence and the survival time significantly, at least in some patient subsets. But there is less than complete agreement as to which subsets, which therapies, how much...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Henderson IC

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of estradiol (E2) on the [3H]-acetylation of nuclear histones was studied in the MCF-7 human mammary cancer cell line in culture. Cells (approximately 10(8) were incubated with 8 x 10(-6) M [3H]-acetate in the absence (control) or in the presence of estradiol (10(-5)-10(-8) M). After 20 min incubation, the ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Pasqualini JR,Mercat P,Giambiagi N

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating CA 15-3 antigen levels were evaluated in patients with benign diseases and breast cancer patients with no clinical evidence of disease after surgery (NED). Patients with breast cancer NED were followed for tumor recurrence or death during a median of 12.9 months (range 1 to 25 months). CA 15-3 and carcinoe...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Colomer R,Ruibal A,Genollá J,Rubio D,Del Campo JM,Bodi R,Salvador L

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the family history of cancer may significantly influence diagnosis and surgical management. Hereditary breast cancer (HBC) is common and accounts for approximately 9% of the total breast cancer burden. The pattern of HBC's natural history, including age of onset, increased incidence of bilaterality, integ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Lynch HT,Conway T,Fitzgibbons R Jr,Schreiman J,Watson P,Marcus J,Fitzsimmons ML,Lynch JF

更新日期：1988-12-01 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：:Based on our previous findings that medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) significantly suppressed the formation of preneoplastic mammary hyperplastic alveolar nodules in mice, and that this suppression persisted for some time, we studied the effects of different schedules of MPA treatment on spontaneous mammary tumorigen...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Nagasawa H,Aoki M,Sakagami N,Ishida M

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Number of mitoses and EGF binding were determined in parallel in biopsies of 27 lymph-node positive and of 23 lymph-node negative breast cancer patients. For node-positive patients the parameters for cell growth and EGF binding were quantitatively correlated by the equation y = P3 + P1(1- exp(- P2x]. For node-negative...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Spitzer E,Koepke K,Kunde D,Grosse R

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 141 postmenopausal node-positive patients with primary breast cancer, routine biochemical markers (alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, carcinoembryonic antigen), and chest x-ray, in combination with history and clinical examination, have been performed at 3 monthly intervals for at least 2 years. S...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Mansi JL,Earl HM,Powles TJ,Coombes RC

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared the effects of the progestin R5020 and the antiprogestin RU486 on the growth of the MCF-7 and T47D breast cancer cell lines. Differences between the two compounds were demonstrated in several parameters. 1. Estradiol was required for the efficient inhibition of cell growth of both lines by R5020 but n...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Gill PG,Vignon F,Bardon S,Derocq D,Rochefort H

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one women with non-metastatic but locally advanced breast cancer were treated by modified radical or radical mastectomy, and were then randomized to receive one of two adjuvant chemotherapy regimens. Regimen A consisted of 6 months of cyclophosphamide, adriamycin, and fluorouracil (CAF) followed by 6 months of c...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Casper ES,Guidera CA,Bosl GJ,Hakes TB,Kaufman RJ,Shurgot B,Kinne DW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylthioadenosine (MTA) phosphorylase activity was measured in 47 biopsies from primary breast cancers (n = 34) and metastatic tumors (n = 13). Most specimens were also evaluated by DNA flow cytometry and determination of estrogen and progesterone receptor contents. Median MTA phosphorylase activity was 317 pmol/mg ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Smaaland R,Schanche JS,Kvinnsland S,Høstmark J,Ueland PM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now widespread interest in the subject of drug dose intensity in cancer treatment. Recent retrospective analyses have shown a clear-cut benefit for those patients receiving either the intended drug dosage in a particular regimen or the highest dosage achievable through an escalation scheme. In this discussion...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： McGuire WL,Goldie J,Hryniuk W,Tormey DC

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GB3 and GB5 are mouse monoclonal antibodies raised against human amnion. GB3 detects the epidermal basement membrane, and GB5 reacts with the junctional substances between the epithelial cells. These two antibodies were studied on breast tissues by indirect immunofluorescence. All (n = 8) of the normal mammary glandul...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Yeh CJ,Hsi BL,Ettore F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A class distribution of plasma cells associated with the stroma in twenty-eight cases of medullary carcinoma of the breast was investigated by an unlabeled immunoperoxidase method. The stroma of the medullary carcinomas tested was found to contain predominantly IgG plasma cells except in two cases. Stroma of the other...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Ito T,Saga S,Nagayoshi S,Imai M,Aoyama A,Yokoi T,Hoshino M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been conducted to compare the nature and severity of post-operative sensory changes (sensory loss, paraesthesiae, and pain) among patients with breast cancer treated by either modified radical mastectomy or a conservative procedure (tumourectomy, axillary clearance, iridium implant, and external radiothera...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Karydas I,Fentiman IS,Habib F,Hayward JL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure/activity relationships for inhibition of aromatase and cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (CSCC) by aminoglutethimide and some of its analogues are reviewed. Although more effective against aromatase than CSCC, aminoglutethimide markedly inhibits both enzymes. Optimal competitive antagonism of aromat...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Nicholls PJ,Daly MJ,Smith HJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many epidemiologic features of breast cancer suggest that endogenous hormones are of importance in the genesis of this disease. Endocrinologic studies based on total levels of various hormones in serum and urine have provided etiologic clues, but have failed to yield a clear understanding of the hormonal aberrations t...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Thomas DB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local formation of estradiol in human breast tumors could provide a more important source of estrogen than is delivered from plasma. Prior studies have suggested that estrone is primarily synthesized from estrone sulfate. The enzyme 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD) would be required to convert estrone to est...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Santner SJ,Leszczynski D,Wright C,Manni A,Feil PD,Santen RJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 231 patients with primary breast cancer and 85 patients with metastatic breast cancer were reviewed to determine whether indices of body weight were associated with prognosis. Results support previous reports that indices of body weight are relatively weak, but real, prognostic factors. ...

journal_title：Breast cancer research and treatment

authors： Eberlein T,Simon R,Fisher S,Lippman ME

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00