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Investigation of the significance of population-based breast cancer screening among women aged under 40 years
Owing to low incidence rates, population-based breast cancer screening is not recommended by many municipalities in Japan for women aged < 40 years. To evaluate the usefulness of screening in women aged < 40 y...
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Four cases of Trousseau syndrome associated with breast cancer that exhibited central nervous system manifestations
Cancer-associated thrombosis is known as Trousseau syndrome (TS). Here, we report 4 cases of TS associated with advanced breast cancer that caused central nervous system (CNS) vascular events. All 4 patients e...
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Open AccessHigh expression of soluble CD155 in estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer
The poliovirus receptor (CD155) is expressed ubiquitously at low levels on both hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic cells, but its expression is upregulated in various tumor cells. An activating receptor DNAM-1...
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Preoperative diagnosis of a giant cell tumor of soft tissue arising from the breast by ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy
Giant cell tumors of soft tissue (GCT-ST) arising in the breast are extremely rare. Herein, we report a case of a 45-year-old woman with a 5-cm mass in her left breast. Ultrasonography revealed a mainly well-c...
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A case of hemorrhagic cystitis caused by nab-paclitaxel
Nab-paclitaxel (nab-PTX) is a nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel and, as such, is free of solvents like ethanol and polyoxyethylene castor oil. The absence of solvents from this formulation has several prac...
