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Outcomes of fulvestrant therapy among japanese women with advanced breast cancer: a retrospective multicenter cohort study (JBCRG-C06; Safari)
This retrospective study evaluated the effect of clinical background and treatment line on time to treatment failure (TTF) in advanced/metastatic breast cancer (AMBC) patients receiving F500 in Japan (UMIN 000...
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Open AccessIdentification of DBC1 as a transcriptional repressor for BRCA1
DBC1/KIAA1967 (deleted in breast cancer 1) is a putative tumour-suppressor gene cloned from a heterozygously deleted region in breast cancer specimens. Caspase-dependent processing of DBC1 promotes apoptosis, and...
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Open AccessDietary lignans and postmenopausal breast cancer risk by oestrogen receptor status: a prospective cohort study of Swedish women
Among the 51 823 postmenopausal women in the Swedish Mammography Cohort, we investigated breast cancer risk in relation to the FFQ-based estimated lignan intake by oestrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone rece...
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Open AccessAn individual patient data meta-analysis of adjuvant therapy with uracil–tegafur (UFT) in patients with curatively resected rectal cancer
Uracil–Tegafur (UFT), an oral fluorinated pyrimidine chemotherapeutic agent, has been used for adjuvant chemotherapy in curatively resected colorectal cancer patients. Past trials and meta-analyses indicate th...
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A case of a large retroperitoneal liposarcoma presenting as an incarcerated inguinal hernia
We report a rare case of retroperitoneal liposarcoma develo** within an incarcerated inguinal hernia. A 53-year-old man presented to our hospital with left inguinal mass. Preoperative computed tomography rev...
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A rare type of incarcerated lumbar hernia: CT and barium enema demonstration
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Open AccessModulation of thymidine phosphorylase by neoadjuvant chemotherapy in primary breast cancer
The combination effect of docetaxel and capecitabine on tumour response rate and survival was demonstrated recently in metastatic breast cancer patients. This combination was based on an experimental hypothesi...
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Efficacy of oral UFT as adjuvant chemotherapy to curative resection of colorectal cancer: multicenter prospective randomized trial
Background: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy using uracil and tegafur (UFT) for colorectal cancer. Methods: In a multicenter trial amon...
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Effect of transition metals on thermal stability of amorphous phases in Al70Fe25TM5 (TM=Cu, Ni, Zr, Ti) composite powders prepared by mechanical alloying
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Estrogen receptors α and β in the rodent mammary gland
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Detection of lymph-node metastases in patients with gastric carcinoma: comparison of three MR imaging pulse sequences
Background: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) images obtained with three different pulse sequences for lymph-node metastases in patients with gastric cancer.
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Somatic alterations of the SMAD-2 gene in human colorectal cancers
The SMAD-2 gene, which is located at 18q21, has been identified as a candidate tumour-suppressor gene from work on colorectal cancers. The aim of the present study was to determine the clinical alterations and...
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p53 Mutations in non-small-cell lung cancers occurring in individuals without a past history of active smoking
Accumulating evidence suggests that the p53 gene is a good target for molecular epidemiological studies. We previously reported an association between the presence of p53 mutations and lifetime cigarette consu...
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Hemodynamics of small hepatocellular carcinomas (5 cm or less in diameter): Cases with discrepant findings between dynamic MR images and hepatic arteriograms
The degrees and patterns of contrast enhancement of small hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) on dynamic magnetic resonance (MR) images were compared with those on hepatic arteriograms in 61 patients.
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A chromosome 5-specific repetitive DNA sequence in rice (Oryza sativa L)
Repetitive DNA sequences in the rice genome comprise more than half of the nuclear DNA. The isolation and characterization of these repetitive DNA sequences should lead to a better understanding of rice chromo...
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Calorimetric evaluation of nonequilibrium state in as-melt spun Al-1.72 and Al-3.12 At. Pct Cu Alloys and Al-6.74, Al-8.48, and Al-11.97 At. Pct Si alloys
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Phase diagrams of Ti-Co system at high pressure
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Partial phase diagrams of the titanium-rich region of the Ti-Cu system under high pressure
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Phase diagrams of the Ti-Si system under high pressure
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Activation volumes in diffusion of copper, iron and silicon in Ni3Al intermetallic phase