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We have used laser capture microdissection (LCM) to isolate microvessels from clinical samples of invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), the most common form of malignant breast cancer, and from patient-matched adjacent nonmalignant tissue. This approach eliminates many of the problems associated with the...
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PMID: 21401208
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We present an unusual case of radiation-induced morphea (RIM) that occurred after accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using intracavitary Contura brachytherapy. A 65-year-old white woman was treated for stage IIA invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast with APBI to a dose of 34 Gy in...
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PMID: 21421525
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The goal of this study was to analyze prognostic factors for local tumor control and survival and indications for initial treatment with the Gamma Knife in patients with up to 10 metastatic brain tumors from primary breast cancer.
Outcomes were retrospectively reviewed in 101 women with a total of 6...
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PMID: 21121788
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Health care disparities have been documented in rural populations. The authors hypothesized that breast cancer patients in urban counties would have higher rates of postmastectomy breast reconstruction relative to patients in surrounding near-metro and rural counties.
The authors used the Surveillan...
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PMID: 21124121
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Plastic surgeons routinely submit breast capsulectomy surgical specimens for pathologic evaluation. However, clinically significant findings are rarely identified. In an effort to reduce health care costs and the unnecessary use of hospital resources, this study reviews the efficacy of submitting br...
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PMID: 21124126
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We have recently encountered in our consultation practice 4 cases of invasive breast carcinoma (confirmed by clinical findings and other immunophenotypic features) that showed unequivocal tumor cell expression of TTF-1. However, the frequency with which TTF-1 expression is observed in breast carcino...
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PMID: 21107096
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The majority of patients with cancer use some form of complementary or alternative medicine. External qigong treatment (EQT), classified as a bioenergy therapy, is one such approach that patients combine with conventional medicine or, in some cases, use in place of conventional medic...
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PMID: 21106615
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We report a case of recurrent breast cancer with solitary lung metastasis that has shown no recurrence with treatment by trastuzumab alone after partial resection of the right lung upper lobe. A 56-year-old woman, who presented with left breast cancer, underwent quadrantectomy and axillar lymph node...
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PMID: 21160267
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We report a 69-year-old woman with breast cancer who was effectively treated with letrozole as a second-line therapy after becoming resistant to anastrozole. Her chief complaint at presentation was back pain. Physical examination and imaging studies showed a left breast tumor with skin invasion, mul...
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PMID: 21160269
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We report a case of multi-drug-resistant breast cancer with liver metastases which completely responded and improved the quality of life (QOL)by S-1 monotherapy. The patient was a 53-year-old woman, who was diagnosed as breast cancer with invasive chest wall, cervical lymph node metastases, multiple...
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PMID: 21160266
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Masahiko M Ikeda,
Hiroshi H Sonoo,
Yusuke Y Oota,
Sayaka S Fujii,
Toshirou T Shimo,
Akiko A Miyake,
Mari M Seki,
Tsunehisa T Nomura,
Yutaka Y Yamamoto,
Shigeo S Shiiki,
Kazutaka K Nakashima,
Katsuhiro K Tanaka and
Junichi J Kurebayashi
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A 53-year-old woman with left breast tumor was diagnosed as bilateral breast cancer(left; T3N3M0, Stage III C/right; T2N0M0, Stage II )in our hospital, both of which were revealed as invasive ductal carcinoma shown to be ER-negative, PgR negative and HER2-positive by core needle biopsy. In December...
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PMID: 21160270
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We have noticed that some breast carcinomas showing lymphatic spread but lacking histologic features of IMPC have occasional tumor cell clusters reminiscent of those of IMPC without the characteristic prominent retraction artifact. To study the clinicopathologic significance of such features, we pro...
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PMID: 20975342
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Our comprehensive database of 2175 consecutive patients with invasive breast cancer diagnosed during the period 1992-2009 served for the analysis. Several potential factors associated with lobular carcinoma as compared with ductal carcinoma were evaluated.
During this period, a 2.4-f...
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PMID: 21243872
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Enhancement characteristics of breast lesions are regarded as a major criterion for their differential diagnosis in dynamic breast MRI (bMRI). However, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) exhibits a highly heterogeneous enhancement pattern when kinetic analysis is performed conventionally by manual plac...
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PMID: 20942728
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Sharon J Pitteri,
Lynn M Amon,
Tina Busald Buson,
Yuzheng Zhang,
Melissa M Johnson,
Alice Chin,
Jacob Kennedy,
Chee-Hong Wong,
Qing Zhang,
Hong Wang,
Paul D Lampe,
Ross L Prentice,
Martin W McIntosh,
Samir M Hanash and
Christopher I Li
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We conducted 14 independent quantitative proteomics experiments comparing pooled plasma samples collected from 420 estrogen receptor-positive (ER(+)) breast cancer patients ≤17 months before their diagnosis and matched controls. Based on the more than 3.4 million tandem mass spectra collected in t...
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PMID: 20959476
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This article reviews laboratory and epidemiological research into the endocrine disruptive effects of components of personal care products, namely, phthalate esters, parabens, ultraviolet (UV) filters, polycyclic musks, and antimicrobials. High doses of phthalates in utero can produce “phthal...
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PMID: 20932229
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The first patient was a 59-year-old woman who was diagnosed with invasive scirrhous carcinoma. The tumor was estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, progesterone receptor (PgR)-positive, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive. The patient was treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and end...
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PMID: 21084819
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L de Plater,
A Laugé,
C Guyader,
M-F Poupon,
F Assayag,
P de Cremoux,
A Vincent-Salomon,
D Stoppa-Lyonnet,
B Sigal-Zafrani,
J-J Fontaine,
R Brough,
C J Lord,
A Ashworth,
P Cottu,
D Decaudin and
E Marangoni
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The BRCA2 gene is responsible for a high number of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, and studies of the BRCA2 biological functions are limited by the lack of models that resemble the patient's tumour features. The aim of this study was to establish and characterise a new human breast carcinoma...
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PMID: 20877358
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A Michlmayr,
T Bachleitner-Hofmann,
S Baumann,
M Marchetti-Deschmann,
I Rech-Weichselbraun,
C Burghuber,
U Pluschnig,
R Bartsch,
A Graf,
R Greil,
G Allmaier,
G Steger,
M Gnant,
M Bergmann and
R Oehler
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We have identified acute phase proteins and the complement system as part of the early host response to epirubicin/docetaxel chemotherapy. As complement C3 cleavage correlates with the efficacy of docetaxel/epirubicin-based chemotherapy, it has the potential as an easily accessible predictive biomar...
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PMID: 20877360
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We contribute further data by analysing breast cancer incidence rates from the Hamburg Cancer Registry, Germany, for the time period 1991-2006 and HT use data from a large case-control study conducted in the Hamburg region. At first we determined whether there is a decline in breast cancer incidence...
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PMID: 20705533
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We identified PASH in 80 patients. Median follow-up was 3.71 years (range, 0.45-9.42). Age ranged from 12 to 65 (median, 45) and 95% were female. Lesions were palpable in 56% and found on imaging in the remainder. Core biopsy was performed in 65 of 80 patients (81%), which confirmed a diagnosis of P...
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PMID: 20708765
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Time to treatment significantly increased over the study time period (mean of 21.8 days in 1998, 31.3 days in 2003, 41.1 days in 2008). In 2008, the only study year in which MRI was routinely used, patients with an MRI had a longer median time to treatment of 43 days versus 32 days for those who did...
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PMID: 20708761
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We hypothesize that the incidence of axillary recurrence in patients who do not undergo CLND for micrometastases is low, and CLND is not necessary for locoregional control. We performed a retrospective chart review of patients with invasive breast carcinoma and micrometastases detected on SLNB. The...
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PMID: 21105616
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We scrutinized the 2 genetic polymorphisms in exons of DNMT1 that may influence the activity of DNMT1. Our research subjects consisted of 305 patients with IDC and 314 age-matched healthy controls. Genotypes were determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism. Data...
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PMID: 20920981
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Our results demonstrated the prognostic relevance of BM DTCs assessed by a multimarker mRNA panel consisting of TWIST1, CK19, and hMAM in operable breast cancer patients....
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PMID: 20920982
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Our results suggested SLC34A2 to be involved in the development of breast cancer; this gene may therefore be a novel marker for the detection of breast cancer and act as a target gene in therapeutic strategies....
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PMID: 21036732
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We subjected a series of grade- and molecular subtype-matched TCs and IDC-NSTs and molecular subtype-matched TCs and classic ILCs to genome-wide gene expression profiling using oligonucleotide microarrays. Unsupervised and supervised analysis revealed that TCs are similar at the transcriptomic level...
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PMID: 20593406
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Metastatic tumours of the stomach have been reported to result from various types of cancer. Among them, gastric metastasis from breast cancer has been recognised in 0.3-18% patients (1-4). Here, a rare case of metastatic gastric tumour derived from breast carcinoma is reported. Gastric endoscopy co...
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PMID: 20944157
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We describe three cases with extensively pretreated advanced breast cancer developing intramedullary spinal cord metastases two of whom were receiving trastuzumab, one of whom was a male. As therapeutic advances increase overall survival for patients with metastatic breast cancer, patterns of diseas...
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PMID: 20919834
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We describe, a 74-year-old woman, presented with a 2 months' history of lower abdominal pain and episodic intestinal subocclusion due to a complex pelvic mass. The mass consisted predominantly of a Brenner tumor associated with struma ovarii containing a single small island of thyroid tissue that ha...
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PMID: 20532676
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Cancer development involves the destruction of tight junctions, deprivation of cell polarity, and increased cell mobility. Claudin 16 (CLDN16) is a tight junction protein and plays important roles in the maintenance of cell polarity, cellular arrangement, adhesion, paracellular transport, and ionic...
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PMID: 20664984
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We evaluated whether mammary tumor progression in tumor-bearing rats lifetime exposed to SPI is associated with deregulated progesterone receptor (PR) isoform expression. In histologically normal mammary glands of rats with invasive ductal carcinoma lesions, PR-A protein levels were higher for SPI-...
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PMID: 20661826
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We studied gene expression patterns of 31 pure DCIS, 36 pure invasive cancers and 42 cases of mixed diagnosis (invasive cancer with an in situ component) using Agilent Whole Human Genome Oligo Microarrays 44k. Six normal breast tissue samples were also included as controls. qRT-PCR was used for vali...
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PMID: 20663721
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The aim of this study was to clarify the frequency of malignancy and the histopathological characteristics of the lesions in patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB).
A retrospective review of 100 consecutive patients wi...
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PMID: 20799018
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The aim of this study was to clarify the frequency of malignancy and the histopathological characteristics of the lesions in patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB).
A retrospective review of 100 consecutive patients wi...
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PMID: 20799018
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Fourteen directors of breast imaging courses met on behalf of the German Society of Radiology to discuss the actual standards of the diagnosis of masses. Open questions on the fields of mammography, breast ultrasound and breast MRI were elucidated by a presentation of one of the 14 panel members, fo...
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PMID: 20544579
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We explored the crosstalk between cell survival (phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt) and mitogenic (Ras/Raf/MEK/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)) signaling pathways activated by an epidermal growth factor (EGF) and analyzed their sensitivity to small molecule inhibitors in the PI3K-...
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PMID: 20471474
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A composite index, the Tissue Optical Index (TOI), showed a significant ( approximately 50%) decrease over the nearly 18 weeks of chemotherapy. Tumor response was sensitive to the type of chemotherapy agent, and functional indices fluctuated in a manner consistent with dynamic tumor physiology. Fina...
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PMID: 20542448
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We determined a methylation profile of tumor-related genes in serum of sporadic breast cancer (SBC). The multigene methylation was examined by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction assay in serum of 50 SBCs and 50 paired nontumors, and CIMP+ was defined as having three genes that are concor...
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PMID: 20490964
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Our results suggest that DHEA treatment can reduce body weight gain and protects against DMBA-induced mammary tumor development in the obese Zucker rat model....
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PMID: 20596621
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We evaluated local recurrence, toxicity rate and cosmetic outcome in 72 patients treated with high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy after breast conserving surgery. HDR brachytherapy was administered: i) as partial breast irradiation (PBI) in 64 patients with low-risk early stage breast cancer, enrolle...
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PMID: 20596628
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The frequency of tumor hypermethylation was 27% in BRCA1, 32% in MGMT and 25% in GSTP1 and correlated with methylation of these genes in paired serum DNA. Immunohistochemical analysis showed no detectable expression of BRCA1 and MGMT in 51/89 (57%) and 35/89 (39%) tumors, respectively. MGMT promoter...
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PMID: 20470789
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Initial efficacy and toxicity using 3D-CRT to deliver APBI appears comparable to other experiences with similar follow-up. However, additional patients, further follow-up, and mature Phase III data are needed to evaluate the extent of application, limitations, and value of this particular form of AP...
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PMID: 19910132
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Whole-brain radiotherapy of occult brain metastases in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with visceral dissemination produces a three-fold decrease in cerebral deaths but does not prolong survival.
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PMID: 19932944
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We present the case of a 49-year-old woman with a past medical history of invasive ductal breast carcinoma 13 years ago, and who was recently diagnosed as having a low-grade adenosquamous carcinoma in the same breast. Genetic analysis of blood DNA revealed a BRCA1 mutation. To our knowledge, BRCA1 m...
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PMID: 20189727
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While the mortality associated with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is minimal, the risk of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) after breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is relatively high. Radiation therapy (RT) and antiestrogen agents reduce the risk of IBTR and are considered standard treatmen...
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PMID: 20625132
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The biopsy rate of 536 lesions categorized as BI-RADS 4 was 75% (403 of 536). Malignancy was found in 95 of 460 patients; or a PPV of 21%, PPVs for subcategories 4A, 4B and 4C, were 9%, 21% and 57%, respectively. The most common malignancy was invasive ductal carcinoma (67%). Patients with advanced...
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PMID: 20649064
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We earlier evaluated the relationship of 653 triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) with basal immunophenotypic expression by using antibodies to basal cytokeratins (CK5/6, CK14, CK17, 34betaE12), p63, smooth muscle actin (SMA), epidermal growth factor receptor, and CD117, and found that a triple pan...
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PMID: 20495445
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About one-tenth of solid DCIS diagnosed in core biopsies in the past may represent LCIS variants. These show a 25% upgrade to invasive lobular carcinoma in surgical excision. The distinction of an LCIS variant from DCIS is important because of its implications for radiation therapy, although it may...
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PMID: 20586632
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We investigated the safety of the combination of sunitinib and paclitaxel in an exploratory study of patients with locally advanced or MBC.
Patients received oral sunitinib 25 mg/day (with escalation to 37.5 mg/day as tolerated) on a continuous daily dosing schedule and paclitaxel 90...
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PMID: 20032126
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CEA and CA 15.3 are useful prognostic factors in NP and NN breast cancer patients. CEA >7.5 microg/L is associated with a high probability of subclinical metastases....
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PMID: 20472825
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Pathological features associated with ipsilateral recurrence in univariate analysis included high cytonuclear grade, larger lesion size, growth pattern, presence of necrosis or chronic inflammation, incompleteness (or uncertainty of completeness) of excision and smaller margin width. Receipt of post...
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PMID: 20517310
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To evaluate the concordance of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) gene amplification in invasive breast cancer by the techniques of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and silver-enhanced in situ hybridization (SISH).
A prospective study of 63 invasive breast cancer specimens exci...
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PMID: 20979875
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