Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prognosis

1. Breast Cancer: An Introduction
M. A. Hayat

2. Breast Cancer: Computer-Aided Detection
Bin Zheng

3. Sebaceous Carcinoma of the Breast: Clinicopathologic Features
Masanori Hisaoka, Tetsuo Hamada

4. Breast Cancer: Detection by In-Vivo Imaging of Angiogenesis
Tore Bach-Gansmo, Derek Tobin

5. Breast and Prostate Biopsies: Use of Optimized High-Throughput MicroRNA Expression for Diagnosis (Methodology)
Michael D. Mattie, Robert C. Getts

6. Familial Breast Cancer: Detection of Prevalent High-Risk Epithelial Lesions
Peter Bult, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge

7. Differentiation Between Benign and Malignant Papillary Lesions of Breast: Excisional Biopsy or Stereotactic Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy (Methodology)
Alice P. Y. Tang, Gary M. K. Tse, Wynnie W. M. Lam

8. Multicentric Breast Cancer: Sentinel Node Biopsy as a Diagnostic Tool
Michael Knauer, Peter Konstantiniuk, Anton Haid, Etienne Wenzl, Roswitha Köberle-Wührer, Michaela Riegler-Keil, Sabine Pöstlberger, Roland Reitsamer, Peter Schrenk

9. Breast Cancer Recurrence: Role of Serum Tumor Markers CEA and CA 15-3
Franco Lumachi, Stefano M. M. Basso, Umberto Basso

10. Breast Cancer Patients Before, During or After Treatment: Circulating Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood Detected by Multigene Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction
Barbara K. Zehentner

11. Breast Cancer Patients: Diagnostic Epigenetic Markers in Blood
Qinghua Feng, Nancy B. Kiviat

12. Breast Cancer Patients: Detection of Circulating Cancer Cell-Related mRNA Markers with Membrane Array Method
Shiu-Ru Lin, Jaw-Yuan Wang, Ming-Yii Huang, Chung-Chi Chen

13. Prediction of Metastasis and Recurrence of Breast Carcinoma: Detection of Survivin-Expressing Circulating Cancer Cells
Shang-mian Yie

14. Node-Negative Breast Cancer: Predictive and Prognostic Value of Peripheral Blood Cytokeratin-19 mRNA-Positive Cells
Nikos Xenidis, Maria Perrakis, S. Kakolyris, Dimitris Mavroudis, Vassilis Georgoulias

15. Breast and Colon Carcinomas: Detection with Plasma CRIPTO-1
Caterina Bianco, Luigi Strizzi, Antonella Luca, Nicola Normanno, David S. Salomon

16. Breast Cancer Risk in Women with Abnormal Cytology in Nipple Aspirate Fluid
Kimberly Baltzell, Dixie Mills, Britt-Marie Ljung, Susan Love, Margaret Wrensch

17. Tissue Microarrays: Construction and Utilization for Biomarker Studies
Shannon M. Mumenthaler, Nam Yoon, Ai Li, Vei Mah, George Chang, Farzad Nooraie, Yahyah Elshimali, Stephanie Hanna, Sarang Kim, Steve Horvath, Sophia Apple, David Chia, David B. Seligson, Lee Goodglick

18. Systematic Validation of Breast Cancer Biomarkers Using Tissue Microarrays: From Construction to Image Analysis
Catherine M. A. Kelly, Denise N. Ryan, Sarah A. Penny, William M. Gallagher

19. Phyllodes Tumors of the Breast: The Role of Immunohistochemistry in Diagnosis
Puay Hoon Tan, Gary Man-Kit Tse, George Wai-Cheong Yip, Boon Huat Bay

20. Phyllodes Tumor of the Breast: Prognostic Assessment Using Immunohistochemistry
Nicole Nicosia Esposito, David J. Dabbs

21. Metaplastic Breast Carcinoma: Detection Using Histology and Immunohistochemistry
Tibor Tot

22. Invasive Breast Cancer: Overexpression of HER-2 Determined by Immunohistochemistry and Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification
Paul J. Diest, C. B. Moelans, D. Purnomosari, G. Pals, R. A. Weger

23. Operable Breast Cancer: Neoadjuvant Treatment (Methodology)
Manfred Kaufmann, Sibylle Loibl, Gunter Minckwitz

24. Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
James A. McCubrey, Richard A. Franklin, Patrick M. Navolanic, Alberto M. Martelli, Linda S. Steelman

25. Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: Role of Chemotherapy in Improving Prognosis
Giuseppe Frasci, Giuseppe D’Aiuto, Giovanni Iodice, Massimiliano D’Aiuto, Giuseppe Comella

26. Relevance of Dose-Intensity for Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer
Sherko Kümmel, Mahdi Rezai, Rainer Kimmig, Peter Schmid

27. Advanced Breast Cancer: Treatment with Docetaxel/Epirubicin
A. G. Pallis, V. Georgoulias, V. Mavroudis

28. Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer: Using Toxicity Data to Inform Decisions
John K. Erban, Joseph Lau

29. Chemotherapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Who Received Adjuvant Anthracyclines (An Overview)
Alessandro Morabito, Maria Carmela Piccirillo, Jane Bryce, Katia Monaco, Gianfranco Feo, Antonia Giudice, Fabiano Falasconi, Francesco Perrone

30. Estrogen Receptor-Negative and HER-2/neu-Positive Locally Advanced Breast Carcinoma: Therapy with Paclitaxel and Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor
Giuseppe Frasci, Giuseppe D’Aiuto, Giovanni Iodice, Renato Thomas, Massimiliano D’Aiuto, Giuseppe Comella

31. Breast Cancer: Side Effects of Tamoxifen and Anastrozole
John R. Benson, Eleanor H. Turner, Zoe Winters

32. Breast Cancer: Expression of HER-2 and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor as Clinical Markers for Response to Targeted Therapy
Stanley E. Shackney, David R. Emlet, Russell Schwartz, Kathryn A. Brown, Agnese A. Pollice, Charles A. Smith

33. Young Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Breast-Conserving Therapy: Role of BRCA1 and BRCA2
Andrea Chao Bafford, Judy E. Garber, Anu Chittenden, Mehra Golshan

34. Radiation Therapy for Older Women with Early Breast Cancer
Benjamin D. Smith

35. Acute Side Effects of Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients: Role of DNA-Repair and Cell Cycle Control Genes
Xiang-Lin Tan, Odilia Popanda, Jenny Chang-Claude

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18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose/Positron Emission Tomography in Primary Breast Cancer: Factors Responsible for False-Negative Results
Rakesh Kumar, Neena Lal

37. Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery During Prophylactic Mastectomy (Methodology)
Judy C. Boughey, Isabelle Bedrosian

38. Breast Conservation Surgery: Methods
Lloyd A. Mack, Robert L. Lindsay, Walley J. Temple

39. Lymph Node-Negative Breast Carcinoma: Assessment of HER-2/neu Gene Status as Prognostic Value
Gloria Peiró

40. Multifocal or Multicentric Breast Cancer: Understanding Its Impact on Management and Treatment Outcomes
Julia L. Oh

41. Are Breast Cancer Survivors at Risk for Developing Other Cancers?
Jaime S. Raymond, Carol J. Rowland Hogue

42. Distant Metastasis in Elderly Patients with Breast Cancer: Prognosis with Nodal Status
Anees B. Chagpar

43. Concomitant Use of Tamoxifen with Radiotherapy Enhances Subcutaneous Breast Fibrosis in Hypersensitive Patients
David Azria, Yazid Belkacemi, Joseph Gligorov, Mahmut Ozsahin

44. Malignant Phyllodes Tumor of the Breast: Is Adjuvant Radiotherapy Necessary?
Aaron P. Brown, David K. Gaffney, O. Kenneth Macdonald

45. Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: Multidrug Resistance
Can Atalay

46. Breast Cancer: Diagnosis of Recurrence Using 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography
Simona Ben-Haim, Lea Radan

47. Role of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Diagnosis and Methodology
Amit Goyal

48. Breast Conservation Treatment of Early Stage Breast Carcinoma: Risk of Cardiac Mortality
Eleanor E. R. Harris

Keywords: MEDICAL / Public Health MED078000