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The use of videotaped information in cancer genetic counselling: a randomized evaluation study
A video of introductory information about inherited susceptibility to breast cancer was made in consultation with clinicians in four Scottish cancer family clinics. One hundred and twenty-eight women, newly re...
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Primary systemic therapy for operable breast cancer - 10-year survival data after chemotherapy and hormone therapy
Between 1984 and 1990, 94 women presenting to the Edinburgh Breast Unit with operable breast cancer of 4 cm or greater in diameter (T2, T3, N0, N1, M0) were given preoperative systemic therapy. Initially, all ...
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Primary systemic therapy for operable breast cancer
Eighty-eight patients presenting with operable breast cancer of 4 cm or greater in diameter (T2, T3, N0, N1, M0) have received primary systemic therapy. Response was assessed following 12 weeks of systemic the...
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Does the oestrogen receptor concentration of a breast cancer change during systemic therapy?
The effect of systemic therapy on tumour oestrogen receptor (ER) concentration has been studied in 88 patients with large, operable, primary tumours (total 89) of the breast. In 26 patients, tumour was not ava...
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Response to endocrine manipulation and oestrogen receptor concentration in large operable primary breast cancer
Forty-three patients with large (greater than or equal to 4 cm) but operable carcinoma of the breast have been treated by endocrine manipulation before definitive local surgery. This has allowed the study of t...
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The cytochemical detection of oestrogen receptors in fine needle aspirates of breast cancer; correlation with biochemical assay and prediction of response to endocrine therapy
A total of 98 breast aspirates from patients with breast cancer have been fixed and stained for oestrogen receptors using the Abbott ERICA kit. In a preliminary series of 41 aspirates, cytochemical staining in...
