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Volume 11(4);  2009
Meeting Report
It's all in the details: methods in breast development and cancer
Mohamed Bentires-Alj, Robert B Clarke, Jos Jonkers, Matthew Smalley, and Torsten Stein
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): 305. Published online 2009 August 14. doi: 10.1186/bcr2346.
PMCID: PMC2750118
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Viewpoint
Transforming growth factor-beta and mutant p53 conspire to induce metastasis by antagonizing p63: a (ternary) complex affair
Jean-Christophe Marine and Geert Berx
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): 304. Published online 2009 July 27. doi: 10.1186/bcr2337.
PMCID: PMC2750109
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Research Articles
Dynamics of different-sized solid-state nanocrystals as tracers for a drug-delivery system in the interstitium of a human tumor xenograft
Masaaki Kawai, Hideo Higuchi, Motohiro Takeda, Yoshio Kobayashi, and Noriaki Ohuchi
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R43. Published online 2009 July 3. doi: 10.1186/bcr2330.
PMCID: PMC2750102
Improved breast cancer survival following introduction of an organized mammography screening program among both screened and unscreened women: a population-based cohort study
Mette Kalager, Tor Haldorsen, Michael Bretthauer, Geir Hoff, Steinar O Thoresen, and Hans-Olov Adami
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R44. Published online 2009 July 6. doi: 10.1186/bcr2331.
PMCID: PMC2750103
Increased levels of active c-Src distinguish invasive from in situ lobular lesions
Donghui Zou, Han-Seung Yoon, Ahmad Anjomshoaa, David Perez, Ryuji Fukuzawa, Parry Guilford, and Bostjan Humar
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R45. Published online 2009 July 7. doi: 10.1186/bcr2332.
PMCID: PMC2750104
Stem cell and epithelial-mesenchymal transition markers are frequently overexpressed in circulating tumor cells of metastatic breast cancer patients
Bahriye Aktas, Mitra Tewes, Tanja Fehm, Siegfried Hauch, Rainer Kimmig, and Sabine Kasimir-Bauer
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R46. Published online 2009 July 9. doi: 10.1186/bcr2333.
PMCID: PMC2750105
Genomic profiling of breast tumours in relation to BRCA abnormalities and phenotypes
Olafur Andri Stefansson, Jon Gunnlaugur Jonasson, Oskar Thor Johannsson, Kristrun Olafsdottir, Margret Steinarsdottir, Sigridur Valgeirsdottir, and Jorunn Erla Eyfjord
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R47. Published online 2009 July 9. doi: 10.1186/bcr2334.
PMCID: PMC2750106
Alternative use of multiple exons 1 of aromatase gene in cancerous and normal breast tissues from women over the age of 80 years
Naoko Honma, Kaiyo Takubo, Motoji Sawabe, Tomio Arai, Futoshi Akiyama, Goi Sakamoto, Toshiaki Utsumi, Noriko Yoshimura, and Nobuhiro Harada
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R48. Published online 2009 July 10. doi: 10.1186/bcr2335.
PMCID: PMC2750107
Plasma carotenoids, retinol, and tocopherols and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Multiethnic Cohort Study: a nested case-control study
Meira Epplein, Yurii B Shvetsov, Lynne R Wilkens, Adrian A Franke, Robert V Cooney, Loïc Le Marchand, Brian E Henderson, Laurence N Kolonel, and Marc T Goodman
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R49. Published online 2009 July 20. doi: 10.1186/bcr2338.
PMCID: PMC2750110
Presence of HER4 associates with increased sensitivity to Herceptin™ in patients with metastatic breast cancer
Andrea Sassen, Simone Diermeier-Daucher, Manuela Sieben, Olaf Ortmann, Ferdinand Hofstaedter, Stephan Schwarz, and Gero Brockhoff
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R50. Published online 2009 July 22. doi: 10.1186/bcr2339.
PMCID: PMC2750111
Sex steroid metabolism polymorphisms and mammographic density in pre- and early perimenopausal women
Carolyn J Crandall, Mary E Sehl, Sybil L Crawford, Ellen B Gold, Laurel A Habel, Lesley M Butler, MaryFran R Sowers, Gail A Greendale, and Janet S Sinsheimer
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R51. Published online 2009 July 27. doi: 10.1186/bcr2340.
PMCID: PMC2750112
A novel role for signal transducer and activator of transcription 5b (STAT5b) in β1-integrin-mediated human breast cancer cell migration
Teresa M Bernaciak, Jessica Zareno, J Thomas Parsons, and Corinne M Silva
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R52. Published online 2009 July 24. doi: 10.1186/bcr2341.
PMCID: PMC2750113
Construction of an MUC-1 promoter driven, conditionally replicating adenovirus that expresses the sodium iodide symporter for gene therapy of breast cancer
Miguel A Trujillo, Michael J Oneal, Julia Davydova, Elizabeth Bergert, Masato Yamamoto, and John C Morris, III
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R53. Published online 2009 July 27. doi: 10.1186/bcr2342.
PMCID: PMC2750114
Tumor aromatase expression as a prognostic factor for local control in young breast cancer patients after breast-conserving treatment
Marc A Bollet, Alexia Savignoni, Leanne De Koning, Carine Tran-Perennou, Catherine Barbaroux, Armelle Degeorges, Brigitte Sigal-Zafrani, Geneviève Almouzni, Paul Cottu, Rémy Salmon, Nicolas Servant, Alain Fourquet, and Patricia de Cremoux
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R54. Published online 2009 July 28. doi: 10.1186/bcr2343.
PMCID: PMC2750115
An integration of complementary strategies for gene-expression analysis to reveal novel therapeutic opportunities for breast cancer
Andrea H Bild, Joel S Parker, Adam M Gustafson, Chaitanya R Acharya, Katherine A Hoadley, Carey Anders, P Kelly Marcom, Lisa A Carey, Anil Potti, Joseph R Nevins, and Charles M Perou
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R55. Published online 2009 July 28. doi: 10.1186/bcr2344.
PMCID: PMC2750116
Breast cancer-associated metastasis is significantly increased in a model of autoimmune arthritis
Lopamudra Das Roy, Latha B Pathangey, Teresa L Tinder, Jorge L Schettini, Helen E Gruber, and Pinku Mukherjee
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R56. Published online 2009 July 30. doi: 10.1186/bcr2345.
PMCID: PMC2750117
The cytotoxicity of γ-secretase inhibitor I to breast cancer cells is mediated by proteasome inhibition, not by γ-secretase inhibition
Jianxun Han, Ivy Ma, Michael J Hendzel, and Joan Allalunis-Turner
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R57. Published online 2009 August 6. doi: 10.1186/bcr2347.
PMCID: PMC2750119
MicroRNA expression profiling of male breast cancer
Matteo Fassan, Raffaele Baffa, Juan P Palazzo, Joshua Lloyd, Marco Crosariol, Chang-Gong Liu, Stefano Volinia, Hannes Alder, Massimo Rugge, Carlo M Croce, and Anne Rosenberg
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R58. Published online 2009 August 10. doi: 10.1186/bcr2348.
PMCID: PMC2750120
Detection and characterization of circulating tumor cells in blood of primary breast cancer patients by RT-PCR and comparison to status of bone marrow disseminated cells
Tanja Fehm, Oliver Hoffmann, Bahriye Aktas, Sven Becker, Erich F Solomayer, Diethelm Wallwiener, Rainer Kimmig, and Sabine Kasimir-Bauer
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R59. Published online 2009 August 10. doi: 10.1186/bcr2349.
PMCID: PMC2750121
Dysregulated expression of Fau and MELK is associated with poor prognosis in breast cancer
Mark R Pickard, Andrew R Green, Ian O Ellis, Carlos Caldas, Vanessa L Hedge, Mirna Mourtada-Maarabouni, and Gwyn T Williams
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R60. Published online 2009 August 11. doi: 10.1186/bcr2350.
PMCID: PMC2750122
Haploinsufficiency for p190B RhoGAP inhibits MMTV-Neu tumor progression
Brandy M Heckman-Stoddard, Tracy Vargo-Gogola, Peter R McHenry, Vivian Jiang, Matthew P Herrick, Susan G Hilsenbeck, Jeffrey Settleman, and Jeffrey M Rosen
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R61. Published online 2009 August 24. doi: 10.1186/bcr2352.
PMCID: PMC2750123
Resident macrophages influence stem cell activity in the mammary gland
David E Gyorki, Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, Nico van Rooijen, Geoffrey J Lindeman, and Jane E Visvader
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R62. Published online 2009 August 26. doi: 10.1186/bcr2353.
PMCID: PMC2750124
BRCA1-deficient mammary tumor cells are dependent on EZH2 expression and sensitive to Polycomb Repressive Complex 2-inhibitor 3-deazaneplanocin A
Julian Puppe, Rinske Drost, Xiaoling Liu, Simon A Joosse, Bastiaan Evers, Paulien Cornelissen-Steijger, Petra Nederlof, Qiang Yu, Jos Jonkers, Maarten van Lohuizen, and Alexandra M Pietersen
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R63. Published online 2009 August 26. doi: 10.1186/bcr2354.
PMCID: PMC2750125
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and postmenopausal breast cancer risk: a nested case control study in the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort
Marjorie L McCullough, Victoria L Stevens, Roshni Patel, Eric J Jacobs, Elizabeth B Bain, Ronald L Horst, Susan M Gapstur, Michael J Thun, and Eugenia E Calle
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): R64. Published online 2009 August 28. doi: 10.1186/bcr2356.
PMCID: PMC2750126
Reviews
Recent advances in systemic therapy: Advances in systemic therapy for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
Phuong Khanh H Morrow, Francisco Zambrana, and Francisco J Esteva
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): 207. Published online 2009 July 15. doi: 10.1186/bcr2324.
PMCID: PMC2750101
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Recent advances in systemic therapy. When HER2 is not the target: advances in the treatment of HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer
David W Miles
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): 208. Published online 2009 August 28. doi: 10.1186/bcr2237.
PMCID: PMC2750099
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Editorials
Is there more to Wnt signalling in breast cancer than stabilisation of β-catenin?
Giovanna M Collu, Olivier Meurette, and Keith Brennan
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): 105. Published online 2009 July 30. doi: 10.1186/bcr2336.
PMCID: PMC2750108
Recent advances in systemic therapy for breast cancer: new technologies for a new era
Paul Ellis
Breast Cancer Res. 2009; 11(4): 107. Published online 2009 August 28. doi: 10.1186/bcr2254.
PMCID: PMC2750100
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