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    HER2 mutation status in Japanese HER2-positive breast cancer patients

    Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) gene amplification/overexpression is a major therapeutic target in breast cancer, and has been introduced as a predictive biomarker to identify patients who may be...

    Yumi Endo, Yu Dong, Naoto Kondo, Nobuyasu Yoshimoto, Tomoko Asano in Breast Cancer (2016)

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    Prognostic impact of a single-nucleotide polymorphism near the CTSO gene in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients

    Tamoxifen can reduce the occurrence of breast cancer by a half in high-risk women. Recently, a genome-wide association study identified two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) near or in the CTSO and ZNF423 ge...

    Yukari Hato, Naoto Kondo, Nobuyasu Yoshimoto in International Journal of Clinical Oncology (2016)

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    Immunohistochemical determination of the miR-1290 target arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 (NAT1) as a prognostic biomarker in breast cancer

    There are many molecular differences between estrogen receptor α (ERα)-positive and ER-negative breast cancers. Recent analyses have shown that the former can be divided into two subtypes, luminal A and lumina...

    Yumi Endo, Hiroko Yamashita, Satoru Takahashi, Shinya Sato in BMC Cancer (2014)

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    Detection of parasternal metastatic lymph nodes by sentinel lymph node methods in a patient with recurrence in the conserved breast

    We herein report a case of second sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). A 57-year-old woman underwent breast-conserving surgery including axillary clearance at Aichi Cancer Center on October 20, 2003. Recurrent t...

    Toshinari Yamashita, Takashi Fujita, Hironori Hayashi, Yoshiaki Ando in Breast Cancer (2014)