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Breast Cancer Research

Issue 4/2008

Content (24 Articles)

Review

Breast cancer stem cells: implications for therapy of breast cancer

Brian J Morrison, Chris W Schmidt, Sunil R Lakhani, Brent A Reynolds, J Alejandro Lopez

Review

Molecular targeted therapies for breast cancer treatment

Claus M Schlotter, Ulf Vogt, Heike Allgayer, Burkhard Brandt

Open Access Research article

Genetic variation in candidate obesity genes ADRB2, ADRB3, GHRL, HSD11B1, IRS1, IRS2, and SHC1 and risk for breast cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II

Heather Spencer Feigelson, Lauren R Teras, W Ryan Diver, Weining Tang, Alpa V Patel, Victoria L Stevens, Eugenia E Calle, Michael J Thun, Mark Bouzyk

Commentary

Variation in breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

Timothy R Rebbeck, Susan M Domchek

Review

Multifunctional roles of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 in breast cancer

Mustafa Akkiprik, Yumei Feng, Huamin Wang, Kexin Chen, Limei Hu, Aysegul Sahin, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Ayse Ozer, Xishan Hao, Wei Zhang

Open Access Research article

The ubiquitin-like molecule interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) is a potential prognostic marker in human breast cancer

Nuran Bektas, Erik Noetzel, Jürgen Veeck, Michael F Press, Glen Kristiansen, Amjad Naami, Arndt Hartmann, Arno Dimmler, Matthias W Beckmann, Ruth Knüchel, Peter A Fasching, Edgar Dahl

Open Access Research article

Evaluation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and risk-prediction models in a typical Asian country (Malaysia) with a relatively low incidence of breast cancer

E Thirthagiri, SY Lee, P Kang, DS Lee, GT Toh, S Selamat, S-Y Yoon, NA Mohd Taib, MK Thong, CH Yip, SH Teo

Open Access Research article

Continuing trastuzumab beyond disease progression: outcomes analysis in patients with metastatic breast cancer

Giuseppe Cancello, Emilia Montagna, Diego D'Agostino, Mario Giuliano, Antonio Giordano, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Monica Plaitano, Sabino De Placido, Michele De Laurentiis

Open Access Research article

Epigenetic mapping and functional analysis in a breast cancer metastasis model using whole-genome promoter tiling microarrays

David I Rodenhiser, Joseph Andrews, Wendy Kennette, Bekim Sadikovic, Ariel Mendlowitz, Alan B Tuck, Ann F Chambers

Open Access Research article

Over-expression of Skp2 is associated with resistance to preoperative doxorubicin-based chemotherapy in primary breast cancer

Shirly Davidovich, Ofer Ben-Izhak, Ma'anit Shapira, Boris Futerman, Dan D Hershko

Open Access Research article

Visually assessed breast density, breast cancer risk and the importance of the craniocaudal view

Stephen W Duffy, Iris D Nagtegaal, Susan M Astley, Maureen GC Gillan, Magnus A McGee, Caroline RM Boggis, Mary Wilson, Ursula M Beetles, Miriam A Griffiths, Anil K Jain, Jill Johnson, Rita Roberts, Heather Deans, Karen A Duncan, Geeta Iyengar, Pam M Griffiths, Jane Warwick, Jack Cuzick, Fiona J Gilbert

Open Access Research article

Meta-analysis of gene expression profiles in breast cancer: toward a unified understanding of breast cancer subtyping and prognosis signatures

Pratyaksha Wirapati, Christos Sotiriou, Susanne Kunkel, Pierre Farmer, Sylvain Pradervand, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Christine Desmedt, Michail Ignatiadis, Thierry Sengstag, Frédéric Schütz, Darlene R Goldstein, Martine Piccart, Mauro Delorenzi

Open Access Research article

Breast cancer susceptibility loci and mammographic density

Rulla M Tamimi, David Cox, Peter Kraft, Graham A Colditz, Susan E Hankinson, David J Hunter

Open Access Research article

Comparison of molecular phenotypes of ductal carcinoma in situand invasive breast cancer

Rulla M Tamimi, Heather J Baer, Jonathan Marotti, Mark Galan, Laurie Galaburda, Yineng Fu, Anne C Deitz, James L Connolly, Stuart J Schnitt, Graham A Colditz, Laura C Collins

Open Access Research article

Prolactin receptor antagonism reduces the clonogenic capacity of breast cancer cells and potentiates doxorubicin and paclitaxel cytotoxicity

Sacha J Howell, Elizabeth Anderson, Tom Hunter, Gillian Farnie, Robert B Clarke

Open Access Research article

Activated Akt1 accelerates MMTV-c-ErbB2 mammary tumourigenesis in mice without activation of ErbB3

Christian D Young, Erica C Nolte, Andrew Lewis, Natalie J Serkova, Steven M Anderson

Viewpoint

Regulation of cancer stem cells by p53

D Joseph Jerry, Luwei Tao, Haoheng Yan

Open Access Research article

Relaxin reduces xenograft tumour growth of human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells

Yvonne Radestock, Cuong Hoang-Vu, Sabine Hombach-Klonisch

Open Access Research article

Variable size computer-aided detection prompts and mammography film reader decisions

Fiona J Gilbert, Susan M Astley, Caroline RM Boggis, Magnus A McGee, Pamela M Griffiths, Stephen W Duffy, Olorunsola F Agbaje, Maureen GC Gillan, Mary Wilson, Anil K Jain, Nicola Barr, Ursula M Beetles, Miriam A Griffiths, Jill Johnson, Rita M Roberts, Heather E Deans, Karen A Duncan, Geeta Iyengar

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