Strength training stops bone lo ...
Targeted exercise training could reduce risk factors for fracture and obesity-related diseases that increase from breast cancer treatment, but has n ...
The mammalian target of rapamyc ...
mTOR plays a key role in tumor cell cycle control, proliferation, and survival. RAD001 (everolimus) is a novel macrolide that inhibits mTOR and thus ...
Spectrum of BRCA1/2 point mutat ...
The distribution of BRCA1/2 germline mutations in breast/ovarian cancer (BC/OC) families varies among different populations. In the Chilean populati ...
Occult breast carcinoma in brea ...
Breast reduction is a common surgical procedure performed by plastic and oncoplastic breast surgeons. The authors report on the incidence and manage ...
Association between patient rep ...
Neurotoxicity is a common side-effect during taxane therapy. The prevalence and severity of long-term neurotoxicity following therapy is unknown. Th ...
Evidence for biological effects ...
Metformin may reduce the incidence of breast cancer and enhance response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in diabetic women. This trial examined the effe ...
Risk of contralateral breast ca ...
Rare deleterious mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 are associated with an elevated risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Whether or not common variants in t ...
The non-breast-cancer death rat ...
Non-breast-cancer deaths currently account for almost half of deaths among breast carcinoma patients in the 15 years following diagnosis. Understand ...
Mortality following bone metast ...
The aim of the study is to quantify the impact of bone metastasis and skeletal-related events (SREs) on mortality in older breast cancer patients. U ...
Routine pathologic parameters c ...
OncotypeDXTM is an RT-PCR-based assay used to predict chemotherapy benefit in patients with estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancers. We were ...
The influence of removal of pri ...
Recent studies have shown that the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) pre and postoperatively in the peripheral blood of primary breast canc ...
Membrane localization of insuli ...
Recent studies have identified a role for insulin receptor substrate-2 (IRS-2) in promoting motility and metastasis in breast cancer. However, no pu ...
Associations between polymorphi ...
We read with great interest the article by Yang et al. which investigated the associations between tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) polymorphisms an ...
First generation prognostic gen ...
The aims of this study were to compare the performance of six different genomic prognostic markers to predict long-term survival and chemotherapy re ...
Elevated PCNA+ tumor-associated ...
African American and Hispanic women develop more triple negative breast cancer at younger ages than Caucasian women. The frequently observed associa ...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy usin ...
Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a standard surgical procedure for patients with early breast cancer. The combination of radioisotope ...
A false positive for metastatic ...
Recent advanced imaging modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET) detect malignancies using 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18-FDG) wi ...
Ultrasonography- and/or mammogr ...
Background It is very important to excise ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with sufficient margins to prevent local recurrence. We describe the exper ...
Anastrozole can cause severe hy ...
65-year-old woman on anastrozole treatment because of a recurrent breast cancer developed hypercalcaemia and increased parathyroid hormone (PTH) lev ...
Is lymphovascular invasion degr ...
Background Patients who achieve pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) have favorable disease-free survival rates. ...
Diagnosis of Popliteal Venous E ...
Popliteal vascular entrapment syndrome is caused by aberrations or hypertrophy of the gastrocnemius muscles, which compress the neurovascular struct ...
Delayed Development of Brain Ab ...
We describe the delayed development of intracranial abscesses following emergent treatment with a covered stent-graft for carotid blowout syndrome ( ...
Unenhanced MR Angiography of Ut ...
Purpose To compare the status of uterine and ovarian arteries after uterine artery embolization (UAE) in patients with incomplete and complete fibro ...
Pure Ethiodized Oil-based Trans ...
Purpose To evaluate the efficacy of ablation with selective arterial injection of pure ethiodized oil followed by arterial occlusion with 9:1 ethano ...
Predictive values of metabolic ...
Metabolic syndrome is a clinical term encompassing risk factors (obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and hypertension), which yield an increase ...