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Systemic immunity markers are associated with clinical outcomes of atezolizumab treatment in patients with triple-negative advanced breast cancer: a retrospective multicenter observational study
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are reportedly efficacious against triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and are now recommended as first-line therapy. Systemic immunity markers, the absolute lymphocyte coun...
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Reply to “Is venous thromboembolism a time-dependent event in breast cancer patients taking tamoxifen?”
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Open AccessVenous thromboembolism in Japanese patients with breast cancer: subgroup analysis of the Cancer-VTE Registry
This subgroup analysis of the Cancer-VTE Registry, a nationwide, large-scale, multicenter observational study with a 1-year follow-up, assessed real-world data on venous thromboembolism (VTE) among Japanese pa...
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Open AccessA prospective analysis of two studies that used the 5-mm interval slices and 5-mm margin-free method for ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence after breast-conserving surgery without radiotherapy
Breast-conserving surgery with radiotherapy is one of standard treatments for early breast cancer. However, it is regarded as an option to treat elderly patients with small hormone receptor-positive breast can...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Validation of a nuclear grading system for resected stage I–IIIA, high-risk, node-negative invasive breast carcinoma in the N·SAS-BC 01 trial
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Open AccessValidation of a nuclear grading system for resected stage I–IIIA, high-risk, node-negative invasive breast carcinoma in the N·SAS-BC 01 trial
This retrospective observational study validated nuclear grading criteria developed to identify a high-risk group with recurrence rate ≥20–30% and local pathology diagnosis used in a previous multi-institution...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Prevalence of mutations in BRCA and homologous recombination repair genes and real-world standard of care of Asian patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer starting first-line systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy: subgroup analysis of the global BREAKOUT study
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Open AccessPrevalence of mutations in BRCA and homologous recombination repair genes and real-world standard of care of Asian patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer starting first-line systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy: subgroup analysis of the global BREAKOUT study
The multinational BREAKOUT study (NCT03078036) sought to determine the prevalence of germline BRCA1/2 (gBRCA1/2) and somatic BRCA1/2 (sBRCA1/2) mutations and mutations in other homologous recombination repair (HR...
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Open AccessFour magnetic resonance imaging surveillance-detected breast cancer cases in cancer-free BRCA1/2 mutation carriers
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome is a susceptibility syndrome for cancers, such as breast and ovarian cancer, and BRCA1/2 are its causative genes. Annual breast-enhanced magnetic resonance ima...
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Open AccessMulticenter retrospective study on the use of Curebest™ 95GC Breast for estrogen receptor-positive and node-negative early breast cancer
The benefits of postoperative chemotherapy in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer remain unclear. The use of tumor grade, Ki-67, or ER expression failed to provide an accurate prognosis...
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Open AccessProspective study of hair recovery after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy with scalp cooling in Japanese breast cancer patients
Scalp cooling during chemotherapy infusion to mitigate alopecia for breast cancer patients is becoming widespread; however, studies regarding hair recovery after chemotherapy with scalp cooling are limited. We...
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Risk factors of impairment of shoulder function after axillary dissection for breast cancer
Postoperative shoulder joint dysfunction has been observed at a certain rate after breast cancer surgery with axillary lymph node dissection. The purposes of this study were to verify the feasibility and effec...
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Open AccessRelationships between pathological factors and long-term outcomes in patients enrolled in two prospective randomized controlled trials comparing the efficacy of oral tegafur–uracil with CMF (N·SAS-BC 01 trial and CUBC trial)
To evaluate the efficacies of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF) and tegafur–uracil (UFT) as adjuvant therapy in patients with resected stage I–IIIA breast cancer by immunohistochemistry (I...
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Scalp cooling for hair loss prevention in female Japanese breast cancer patients receiving (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy
Scalp cooling during chemotherapy infusion has been recently reported to have moderate efficacy in the mitigation of chemotherapy-induced alopecia; however, there are few reports on Asian patients. We aimed to...
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Open AccessPrevalence of germline BRCA mutations in HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: global results from the real-world, observational BREAKOUT study
The global observational BREAKOUT study investigated germline BRCA mutation (gBRCAm) prevalence in a population of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative metastatic breast cancer (...
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Open AccessPrevalence of disease-causing genes in Japanese patients with BRCA1/2-wildtype hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome
Panel sequencing of susceptibility genes for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome has uncovered numerous germline variants; however, their pathogenic relevance and ethnic diversity remain uncle...
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Open AccessKi-67 response-guided preoperative chemotherapy for HER2-positive breast cancer: results of a randomised Phase 2 study
The effectiveness of a therapeutic strategy that switches chemotherapy, based on Ki-67 tumour expression after initial therapy, relative to that of standard chemotherapy, has not been evaluated.
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Risk factors for early postoperative psychological problems in breast cancer patients after axillary lymph node dissection
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors related to early postoperative psychological conditions in breast cancer patients with axillary lymph node dissection 3 months after the surgery.
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Open AccessPalbociclib in combination with letrozole in patients with estrogen receptor–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative advanced breast cancer: PALOMA-2 subgroup analysis of Japanese patients
In PALOMA-2, palbociclib–letrozole significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) vs placebo–letrozole in women with estrogen receptor–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative (ER+/H...
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The efficacy and feasibility of dose-dense sequential chemotherapy for Japanese patients with breast cancer
Perioperative dose-dense chemotherapy (DDCT) with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) prophylaxis is a standard treatment for patients with high-risk breast cancer. The approval of this approach in J...