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The clinical relevance of various methods of classifying ipsilateral breast tumour recurrence as either true local recurrence or new primary
Describes the relevance of –various classification methods for ipsilateral breast tumour recurrence (IBTR) as either true recurrence (TR) or new primary (NP) on both disease-specific survival (DSS) and distant...
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Clinical relevance of the timing of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery
To investigate the effect of the timing of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery in relation to distant metastasis-free survival and disease-specific survival.
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The Mitotic Activity Index in combination with Her2neu: a strong prognosticator in breast cancer
The aim of this study is to evaluate the prognostic value of the Mitotic Activity Index (MAI) in combination with the human epidermal growth factor receptor (Her2) for distant metastases-free survival (DMFS) a...
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Open AccessEffect of weight loss, with or without exercise, on body composition and sex hormones in postmenopausal women: the SHAPE-2 trial
Physical inactivity and overweight are risk factors for postmenopausal breast cancer. The effect of physical activity may be partially mediated by concordant weight loss. We studied the effect on serum sex hor...
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The prognostic relevance of the mitotic activity index in axillary lymph node-negative breast cancer
The aim of the present study is to look at the mitotic activity index (MAI) as a prognostic factor in a prospective population-based cohort of lymph node-negative invasive breast cancer patients. Analyses wer...
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Open AccessDesign of the SHAPE-2 study: the effect of physical activity, in addition to weight loss, on biomarkers of postmenopausal breast cancer risk
Physical inactivity and overweight are two known risk factors for postmenopausal breast cancer. Former exercise intervention studies showed that physical activity influences sex hormone levels, known to be rel...
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Open AccessCirculating tumor cells, disease recurrence and survival in newly diagnosed breast cancer
The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTC) is an independent prognostic factor for progression-free survival and breast cancer-related death (BRD) for patients with metastatic breast cancer beginning a new ...
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Timing of radiotherapy and survival benefit in breast cancer
To look at the optimum timing of radiotherapy in breast-conserving therapy (BCT) in relation to outcome in breast cancer.