Versican G1 and G3 domains are ...
Background Cancers are supported by a distinct type of stroma, and versican is overexpressed in the stroma of malignant tumors, including breast can ...
Background enhancement of mamma ...
Background Just as mammographic breast density influences mammographic sensitivity, the degree of background enhancement in breast magnetic resonanc ...
Topoisomerase II alpha expressi ...
Background Topoisomerase II alpha (Topo IIa) is involved in DNA replication and is a molecular target for anthracycline-based chemotherapy. The Ki-6 ...
Is lymphovascular invasion degr ...
Background Patients who achieve pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) have favorable disease-free survival rates. ...
A case of metaplastic breast ca ...
Patients with metaplastic breast cancer (MBC) exhibit reduced response to chemotherapy and have poor prognosis. We investigated a case of MBC that s ...
Can patients with metastatic br ...
Unlike early stage breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is generally considered incurable except for a small number of patients with oligom ...
Curative-intent stereotactic bo ...
Liver metastases from breast cancer are generally treated with systemic therapy such as chemotherapy or hormonotherapy. However, local treatment opt ...
Study on the state of implement ...
Background The development of molecular-targeted agents has improved the recovery rate for cancer. In Japan, trastuzumab has been approved as an adj ...
Detection of parasternal metast ...
We herein report a case of second sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). A 57-year-old woman underwent breast-conserving surgery including axillary cle ...
Eradication of breast cancer ce ...
Cytotoxic agents are significantly active in breast cancer cells, but their usefulness has been limited in treating metastatic breast cancer (MBC). ...
Synchronous bilateral neuroendo ...
Neuroendocrine ductal carcinoma in situ (NEDCIS) is a breast malignancy that has characteristic clinicopathological features and can, therefore, be ...
Elastographic evaluation of muc ...
Background Elastography is widely used as a diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of invasive breast cancer. However, no study has yet shown if elastogr ...
Safety of adjuvant trastuzumab ...
Background For targeting anti-HER-2, trastuzumabincorporated chemotherapy is the standard for HER-2- overexpressing breast cancer in adjuvant settin ...
Ultrasonographic findings of in ...
Background Invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the breast (IMPC) has been considered to have no specific image finding. The purpose of this study w ...
Role of circulating tumor cells ...
Metastasis remains a main cause of death in patients with breast cancer regardless of improvements in treatment. Prospective clinical studies of thi ...
Clip placement after an 11-gaug ...
Purpose To retrospectively evaluate the accuracy of clip placement on the basis of measurements obtained on pre- and post-vacuum-assisted 11-gauge s ...
Aberrant expression of tumor su ...
and DAL-1/4.1B are frequently inactivated by promoter methylation in non-small cell lung cancer. The proteins they encode, CADM1 and 4.1B, form a co ...
Long-term gemcitabine administr ...
Background Recently gemcitabine has been approved for treatment of metastatic or recurrent breast cancer in Japan; however, no systematically invest ...
Prevalence of breast arterial c ...
Background Mammographic breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are regarded as aging-related benign changes in breast cancer screening practices. BAC ...
A case of quadruple primary mal ...
The patient was a 41-year-old, premenopausal woman with a chief complaint of well-circumscribed palpable, right breast mass without nipple discharge ...
Clinicopathological features of ...
The common sites for metastases from breast cancer are lymph nodes, bone, lung, liver, and brain. Gastrointestinal (GI) metastasis is rarely found o ...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy in b ...
The number of breast augmentation surgeries (BAS) has increased. Therefore, the number of breast cancer patients with history of BAS has also increa ...
Prospective ultrasonographic pr ...
systems display virtual multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) images obtained from three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT)–lymphography (LG), si ...
Phase I/II study of intraoperat ...
Background Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is under evaluation in breast-conserving surgery. We have begun our study with the first step being a ...
A review of breast imaging foll ...
Despite developments in surgical technique, radiation treatment, and chemotherapeutic agents, tumor recurrence and distant disease have remained a m ...