The h index and the identificat ...
The h index is used to assess an individual’s contribution to the literature. This metric should not be employed to compare individuals across resea ...
Reproductive factors associated ...
To determine the mechanism by which menstrual and reproductive factors are associated with the risk of breast cancer, we examined the relationships ...
The influence of travel time on ...
Travel time has been shown to influence some aspects of cancer characteristics at diagnosis and care for women with breast cancer, but important gap ...
Genetic variants in ultraconser ...
Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) are the most extreme representatives of conserved non-coding sequences. Recent studies have indicated thatUCEs are no ...
Complete response in HER2+ lept ...
Trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody against the HER2 receptor, is a major breakthrough in the treatment of HER2? breast cancer. However, its high mol ...
Breast cancer scalp metastasis ...
Chemotherapy-induced alopecia is a commonly feared chemotherapy side effect and can be prevented using scalp cooling. Scalp metastasis is a rare sit ...
Failure of ovarian ablation wit ...
To report an unanticipated pregnancy during ovarian ablation treatment with goserelin (10.8 mg SC every 12 weeks) in a 26-year old female with breas ...
Expression of IGF1R in normal b ...
The growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor (IGF) axis plays an essential role in the growth and development of the mammary gland. IGF1 and IG ...
Genomic rearrangements of the B ...
Point mutations and small deletions and insertions in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are responsible of about 20% of hereditary breast cancer cases in Chilea ...
EMSY and CCND1 amplification in ...
EMSY is a putative oncogene amplified in a minority of breast carcinomas, its protein product interacts with and transcriptionally silences BRCA2. W ...
Paraneoplastic polymyositis ass ...
The association of polymyositis and cancer was first described in 1916, the most frequent cancers being mammary and gynecological for women, broncho ...
Is the toxicity of adjuvant aro ...
Adjuvant endocrine treatment-related adverse effects have a strong impact on patients’ quality of life and thereby limit therapy’s risk benefit rati ...
Mutation analysis of RAD51L1 (R ...
Although a significant proportion of familial aggregation of breast cancer remains unexplained, many of the currently known breast cancer susceptibi ...
Trends in return to work of bre ...
Most women interrupt their work activities during the treatment of cancer. This study investigated return to work (RTW) after treatment of breast ca ...
Urinary cadmium and mammographi ...
Mammographic density (MD), a strong marker of breast cancer risk, is influenced by genetic, environmental, and hormonal factors. Cadmium, a persiste ...
Young age, increased tumor prol ...
It is unclear if earlier onset (\40 years) and greater proliferative capacity confer an equally poor prognosis to endocrine-dependent and endocrine- ...
Breast cancers in U.S. residing ...
South Asians from India and Pakistan represent one of the fastest growing immigrant populations in the US, yet there are limited data assessing brea ...
Clinical significance of circul ...
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are defined as tumor cells circulating in the peripheral blood of patients, shed from either the primary tumors or it ...
Post-diagnosis dietary factors ...
Little is known about the effects of diet after breast cancer diagnosis on survival. We prospectively examined the relation between post-diagnosis d ...
The effects of oncotype DX recu ...
The use of clinicopathologic features in decision- making in early stage estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer (BC) may lead to over or unde ...
Breast cancer screening and eth ...
Ethnic and racial minority women within the U.S. are less likely to use breast cancer screening (BCS) procedures than non-Latina White women, and ar ...
Genetic variation in genes enco ...
Chromosomal instability is a known hallmark of many cancers. DNA polymerases represent a group of enzymes that are involved in the mechanism of chro ...
Alcohol consumption and breast ...
Alcohol consumption is known to be a risk factor for breast cancer in Western countries, but few epidemiologic data have been available in Japan. Th ...
Functional polymorphisms in CD1 ...
Activated Leukocyte Cell Adhesion Molecules (ALCAM, also called CD166, MEMD) are cell surface immunoglobulins that are considered to be prognostic ...
Implementation of trastuzumab i ...
Trastuzumab in conjunction with adjuvant chemotherapy markedly improves outcome. In the Netherlands, a national guideline was released in September ...