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  1. Metastases from primary breast cancers can involve single or multiple organs at metastatic disease diagnosis. Molecular risk factors for particular patterns of metastastic spread in a clinical population are l...

    Authors: Katherine Lawler, Efterpi Papouli, Cristina Naceur-Lombardelli, Anca Mera, Kayleigh Ougham, Andrew Tutt, Siker Kimbung, Ingrid Hedenfalk, Jun Zhan, Hongquan Zhang, Richard Buus, Mitch Dowsett, Tony Ng, Sarah E. Pinder, Peter Parker, Lars Holmberg…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:113
  2. Breast cancer tumors are known to be highly heterogeneous and differences in their metabolic phenotypes, especially at protein level, are less well-understood. Profiling of metabolism-related proteins harbors ...

    Authors: Stephan Bernhardt, Michaela Bayerlová, Martina Vetter, Astrid Wachter, Devina Mitra, Volker Hanf, Tilmann Lantzsch, Christoph Uleer, Susanne Peschel, Jutta John, Jörg Buchmann, Edith Weigert, Karl-Friedrich Bürrig, Christoph Thomssen, Ulrike Korf, Tim Beissbarth…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:112
  3. Core fucosylation (addition of fucose in α-1,6-linkage to core N-acetylglucosamine of N-glycans) catalyzed by fucosyltransferase 8 (FUT8) is critical for signaling receptors involved in many physiological and ...

    Authors: Cheng-Fen Tu, Meng-Ying Wu, Yuh-Charn Lin, Reiji Kannagi and Ruey-Bing Yang
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:111
  4. Human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) is amplified and a clinical target in a subset of human breast cancers with high rates of metastasis. Targeted therapies involving the antibody trastuzumab and t...

    Authors: Tomas Baldassarre, Peter Truesdell and Andrew W. Craig
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:110
  5. Authors: Vasiliki Pelekanou, Daniel E. Carvajal-Hausdorf, Mehmet Altan, Brad Wasserman, Cristobal Carvajal-Hausdorf, Hallie Wimberly, Jason Brown, Donald Lannin, Lajos Pusztai and David L. Rimm
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:109

    The original article was published in Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:91

  6. Alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for breast cancer and the association generally appears stronger among estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors. However, the biological mechanisms underlying th...

    Authors: Jun Wang, Yujing J. Heng, A. Heather Eliassen, Rulla M. Tamimi, Aditi Hazra, Vincent J. Carey, Christine B. Ambrosone, Victor P. de Andrade, Adam Brufsky, Fergus J. Couch, Tari A. King, Francesmary Modugno, Celine M. Vachon, David J. Hunter, Andrew H. Beck and Susan E. Hankinson
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:108
  7. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi), coupled to a DNA damaging agent is a promising approach to treating triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). However, not all patients respond; we hypothesize that ...

    Authors: Imke H. Bartelink, Brendan Prideaux, Gregor Krings, Lisa Wilmes, Pei Rong Evelyn Lee, Pan Bo, Byron Hann, Jean-Philippe Coppé, Diane Heditsian, Lamorna Swigart-Brown, Ella F. Jones, Sergey Magnitsky, Ron J Keizer, Niels de Vries, Hilde Rosing, Nela Pawlowska…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:107
  8. Neoadjuvant-chemotherapy (NAC) is considered the standard treatment for locally advanced breast carcinomas. Accurate assessment of disease response is fundamental to increase the chances of successful breast-c...

    Authors: Valentina Iotti, Sara Ravaioli, Rita Vacondio, Chiara Coriani, Sabrina Caffarri, Roberto Sghedoni, Andrea Nitrosi, Moira Ragazzi, Elisa Gasparini, Cristina Masini, Giancarlo Bisagni, Giuseppe Falco, Guglielmo Ferrari, Luca Braglia, Alberto Del Prato, Ivana Malavolti…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:106
  9. During pregnancy, as the mammary gland prepares for synthesis and delivery of milk to newborns, a luminal mammary epithelial cell (MEC) subpopulation proliferates rapidly in response to systemic hormonal cues ...

    Authors: Michelle M. Williams, David B. Vaught, Meghan Morrison Joly, Donna J. Hicks, Violeta Sanchez, Philip Owens, Bushra Rahman, David L. Elion, Justin M. Balko and Rebecca S. Cook
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:105
  10. Mammographic percentage density is an established and important risk factor for breast cancer. In this paper, we investigate the role of the spatial organisation of (dense vs. fatty) regions of the breast defi...

    Authors: Maya Alsheh Ali, Kamila Czene, Louise Eriksson, Per Hall and Keith Humphreys
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:103
  11. Stat1 gene-targeted knockout mice (129S6/SvEvTac-Stat1 tm1Rds) develop estrogen receptor-positive (ER+), luminal-type mammary carcinomas at an advanced age. ...

    Authors: Hidetoshi Mori, Jane Q. Chen, Robert D. Cardiff, Zsófia Pénzváltó, Neil E. Hubbard, Louis Schuetter, Russell C. Hovey, Josephine F. Trott and Alexander D. Borowsky
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:102
  12. Chemotherapy decreases the risk of relapse and mortality in early-stage breast cancer (BC), but it comes with the risk of toxicity. Chemotherapy efficacy depends on relative dose intensity (RDI), and an RDI < ...

    Authors: Yuan Yuan, Nilesh Vora, Can-Lan Sun, Daneng Li, Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, Joanne Mortimer, The-hang Luu, George Somlo, James Waisman, David Smith, Joseph Chao, Vani Katheria, Timothy Synold, Vivi Tran, Shu Mi, Abrahm Levi…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:101
  13. Mammographic breast density is a well-established, strong breast cancer risk factor but the biology underlying this association remains unclear. Breast density may reflect underlying alterations in the size an...

    Authors: Lusine Yaghjyan, Ethan Stoll, Karthik Ghosh, Christopher G. Scott, Matthew R. Jensen, Kathleen R. Brandt, Daniel Visscher and Celine M. Vachon
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:100
  14. Patients with BRCA1-like tumors correlate with improved response to DNA double-strand break-inducing therapy. A gene expression-based classifier was developed to distinguish between BRCA1-like and non-BRCA1-like ...

    Authors: Tesa M. Severson, Denise M. Wolf, Christina Yau, Justine Peeters, Diederik Wehkam, Philip C. Schouten, Suet-Feung Chin, Ian J. Majewski, Magali Michaut, Astrid Bosma, Bernard Pereira, Tycho Bismeijer, Lodewyk Wessels, Carlos Caldas, René Bernards, Iris M. Simon…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:99
  15. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have to date identified 94 genetic variants (single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)) associated with risk of developing breast cancer. A score based on the combined effec...

    Authors: Elsa Curtit, Xavier Pivot, Julie Henriques, Sophie Paget-Bailly, Pierre Fumoleau, Maria Rios, Hervé Bonnefoi, Thomas Bachelot, Patrick Soulié, Christelle Jouannaud, Hugues Bourgeois, Thierry Petit, Isabelle Tennevet, David Assouline, Marie-Christine Mathieu, Jean-Philippe Jacquin…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:98
  16. Accurately identifying women with dense breasts (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System [BI-RADS] heterogeneously or extremely dense) who are at high breast cancer risk will facilitate discussions of supplem...

    Authors: Karla Kerlikowske, Lin Ma, Christopher G. Scott, Amir P. Mahmoudzadeh, Matthew R. Jensen, Brian L. Sprague, Louise M. Henderson, V. Shane Pankratz, Steven R. Cummings, Diana L. Miglioretti, Celine M. Vachon and John A. Shepherd
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:97
  17. Mammary gland biologists gathered for the ninth annual workshop of the European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) at Weggis on the shores of Lake Lucerne in March 2017. The main themes were oes...

    Authors: Katrin E. Wiese, Romain J. Amante, Maria dM. Vivanco, Mohamed Bentires-Alj and Richard D. Iggo
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:96
  18. We previously performed a case–control genome-wide association study in women treated with selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) for breast cancer prevention and identified single nucleotide polymorph...

    Authors: Sisi Qin, James N. Ingle, Mohan Liu, Jia Yu, D. Lawrence Wickerham, Michiaki Kubo, Richard M. Weinshilboum and Liewei Wang
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:95
  19. Several studies have suggested that global DNA methylation in circulating white blood cells (WBC) is associated with breast cancer risk.

    Authors: Susan R. Sturgeon, J. Richard Pilsner, Kathleen F. Arcaro, Kaoru Ikuma, Haotian Wu, Soon-Mi Kim, Nayha Chopra-Tandon, Adam R. Karpf, Regina G. Ziegler, Catherine Schairer, Raji Balasubramanian and David A. Reckhow
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:94
  20. Selinexor (KPT-330) is an oral agent that has been shown to inhibit the nuclear exporter XPO1. Given the pressing need for novel therapies for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), we sought to determine the a...

    Authors: Natalia Paez Arango, Erkan Yuca, Ming Zhao, Kurt W. Evans, Stephen Scott, Charissa Kim, Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, Filip Janku, Naoto T. Ueno, Debu Tripathy, Argun Akcakanat, Aung Naing and Funda Meric-Bernstam
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:93
  21. The mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor everolimus is approved as an antitumor agent in advanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Surrogate bone marker data from clinical trials suggest effects on...

    Authors: Andrew J. Browne, Marie L. Kubasch, Andy Göbel, Peyman Hadji, David Chen, Martina Rauner, Friedrich Stölzel, Lorenz C. Hofbauer and Tilman D. Rachner
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:92
  22. The effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on immune markers remain largely unknown. The specific aim of this study was to assess stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1...

    Authors: Vasiliki Pelekanou, Daniel E. Carvajal-Hausdorf, Mehmet Altan, Brad Wasserman, Cristobal Carvajal-Hausdorf, Hallie Wimberly, Jason Brown, Donald Lannin, Lajos Pusztai and David L. Rimm
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:91

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:109

  23. New molecular targets are needed for women with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). This pre-clinical study investigated the combination of the EGFR inhibitor gefitinib with the sphingosine kinase (SphK) inh...

    Authors: Janet L. Martin, Sohel M. Julovi, Mike Z. Lin, Hasanthi C. de Silva, Frances M. Boyle and Robert C. Baxter
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:90
  24. Targeted therapies in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer significantly improve outcomes but efficacy is limited by therapeutic resistance. HER2 is an acutely sensitive Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) client ...

    Authors: Komal Jhaveri, Rui Wang, Eleonora Teplinsky, Sarat Chandarlapaty, David Solit, Karen Cadoo, James Speyer, Gabriella D’Andrea, Sylvia Adams, Sujata Patil, Sofia Haque, Tara O’Neill, Kent Friedman, Francisco J. Esteva, Clifford Hudis and Shanu Modi
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:89
  25. Absence of pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) correlates with poor long-term survival in patients with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). These incomplete treatment respon...

    Authors: Sheheryar Kabraji, Xavier Solé, Ying Huang, Clyde Bango, Michaela Bowden, Aditya Bardia, Dennis Sgroi, Massimo Loda and Sridhar Ramaswamy
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:88
  26. The Cancer Genome Atlas analysis revealed that somatic EGFR, receptor tyrosine-protein kinase erbB-2 (ERBB2), Erb-B2 receptor tyrosine kinase 3 (ERBB3) and Erb-B2 receptor tyrosine kinase 4 (ERBB4) gene mutations...

    Authors: Sinead Toomey, Alexander J. Eustace, Joanna Fay, Katherine M. Sheehan, Aoife Carr, Malgorzata Milewska, Stephen F. Madden, Ausra Teiserskiene, Elaine W. Kay, Norma O’Donovan, William Gallagher, Liam Grogan, Oscar Breathnach, Janice Walshe, Catherine Kelly, Brian Moulton…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:87
  27. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is associated with downregulated E-cadherin and frequently with decreased proliferation. Proliferation may be restored in secondary metastases by mesenchymal-to-epith...

    Authors: H. J. Hugo, N. P. A. D. Gunasinghe, B. G. Hollier, T. Tanaka, T. Blick, A. Toh, P. Hill, C. Gilles, M. Waltham and E. W. Thompson
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:86
  28. Body size in early life is inversely associated with adult breast cancer (BC) risk, but it is unclear whether the associations differ by tumor characteristics.

    Authors: Md. Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Mikael Eriksson and Jingmei Li
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:84
  29. Previous population-based studies have described first primary breast cancer tumor characteristics and their association with contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk. However, information on influential covaria...

    Authors: Anne S. Reiner, Charles F. Lynch, Julia S. Sisti, Esther M. John, Jennifer D. Brooks, Leslie Bernstein, Julia A. Knight, Li Hsu, Patrick Concannon, Lene Mellemkjær, Marc Tischkowitz, Robert W. Haile, Ronglai Shen, Kathleen E. Malone, Meghan Woods, Xiaolin Liang…
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:83
  30. Pregnancy and parity are associated with subsequent breast cancer risk. Experimental and epidemiologic data suggest a role for pregnancy sex steroid hormones.

    Authors: Renée T. Fortner, Eglé Tolockiene, Helena Schock, Husam Oda, Hans-Åke Lakso, Göran Hallmans, Rudolf Kaaks, Paolo Toniolo, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Kjell Grankvist and Eva Lundin
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:82
  31. The underlying biological mechanisms through which epidemiologically defined breast cancer risk factors contribute to disease risk remain poorly understood. Identification of the molecular changes associated w...

    Authors: Kevin C. Johnson, E. Andres Houseman, Jessica E. King and Brock C. Christensen
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:81
  32. Authors: Nathaniel M. Braman, Maryam Etesami, Prateek Prasanna, Christina Dubchuk, Hannah Gilmore, Pallavi Tiwari, Donna Plecha and Anant Madabhushi
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:80

    The original article was published in Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:57

  33. Upregulation of estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) in breast cancer cells is associated with epithelial maintenance, decreased proliferation and invasion, and a reduction in the expression of the receptor has been o...

    Authors: Igor Bado, Fotis Nikolos, Gayani Rajapaksa, Wanfu Wu, Jessica Castaneda, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Paul Webb, Jan-Ã…ke Gustafsson and Christoforos Thomas
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:79
  34. Tumours are not only composed of malignant cells but also consist of a stromal micro-environment, which has been shown to influence cancer cell behaviour. Because the ageing process induces accumulation of sen...

    Authors: Barbara Brouwers, Debora Fumagalli, Sylvain Brohee, Sigrid Hatse, Olivier Govaere, Giuseppe Floris, Kathleen Van den Eynde, Yacine Bareche, Patrick Schöffski, Ann Smeets, Patrick Neven, Diether Lambrechts, Christos Sotiriou and Hans Wildiers
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:78
  35. Maternal and paternal high-fat (HF) diet intake before and/or during pregnancy increases mammary cancer risk in several preclinical models. We studied if maternal consumption of a HF diet that began at a time ...

    Authors: Nguyen M. Nguyen, Fabia de Oliveira Andrade, Lu Jin, Xiyuan Zhang, Madisa Macon, M. Idalia Cruz, Carlos Benitez, Bryan Wehrenberg, Chao Yin, Xiao Wang, Jianhua Xuan, Sonia de Assis and Leena Hilakivi-Clarke
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:77
  36. Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in cancer immunosurveillance. Recent developments in NK cell ex-vivo expansion makes it possible to generate millions of activated NK cells from a small volume of...

    Authors: Mira M. Shenouda, Amy Gillgrass, Tina Nham, Richard Hogg, Amanda J. Lee, Marianne V. Chew, Mahsa Shafaei, Craig Aarts, Dean A. Lee, John Hassell, Anita Bane, Sukhbinder Dhesy-Thind and Ali A. Ashkar
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:76
  37. Compared with surgery alone, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) improves relapse-free survival of patients with early-stage breast cancer. We evaluated the long-term overall and disease-free survival rat...

    Authors: Jan Poleszczuk, Kimberly Luddy, Lu Chen, Jae K. Lee, Louis B. Harrison, Brian J. Czerniecki, Hatem Soliman and Heiko Enderling
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:75
  38. The importance of the mTOR complex 2 (mTORC2) signaling complex in tumor progression is becoming increasingly recognized. HER2-amplified breast cancers use Rictor/mTORC2 signaling to drive tumor formation, tumor ...

    Authors: Meghan Morrison Joly, Michelle M. Williams, Donna J. Hicks, Bayley Jones, Violeta Sanchez, Christian D. Young, Dos D. Sarbassov, William J. Muller, Dana Brantley-Sieders and Rebecca S. Cook
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:74
  39. Members of the microRNA (miR)-200 family, which are involved in tumor metastasis, have potential as cancer biomarkers, but their regulatory mechanisms remain elusive.

    Authors: Guangxin Zhang, Wei Zhang, Bingjin Li, Erica Stringer-Reasor, Chengjing Chu, Liyan Sun, Sejong Bae, Dongquan Chen, Shi Wei, Kenneth Jiao, Wei-Hsiung Yang, Ranji Cui, Runhua Liu and Lizhong Wang
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:73
  40. Different breast cancer subtypes show distinct tropisms for sites of metastasis. Notably, the lung is the most common site for the first distant recurrence in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The identifi...

    Authors: Jin Wang, Cailu Song, Hailin Tang, Chao Zhang, Jun Tang, Xing Li, Bo Chen and Xiaoming Xie
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:72
  41. A unique 12-chemokine gene expression score (CS) accurately predicted the presence of tumor-localized, ectopic lymph node-like structures (TL-ELNs) and improved overall survival (OS) in primary colorectal canc...

    Authors: Sangeetha Prabhakaran, Victoria T. Rizk, Zhenjun Ma, Chia-Ho Cheng, Anders E. Berglund, Dominico Coppola, Farah Khalil, James J. Mulé and Hatem H. Soliman
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:71
  42. Breast adipocytes play important roles in both the development and function of mammary epithelial cells. Therefore, carcinoma–adipose stromal cell (ASC) interactions have been considered pivotal in supporting ...

    Authors: Minako Sakurai, Yasuhiro Miki, Kiyoshi Takagi, Takashi Suzuki, Takanori Ishida, Noriaki Ohuchi and Hironobu Sasano
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:70
  43. Pubertal milestones, such as onset of breast development and menstruation, play an important role in breast cancer etiology. It is unclear if these milestones are different in girls with a first- or second-deg...

    Authors: Mary Beth Terry, Theresa H. M. Keegan, Lauren C. Houghton, Mandy Goldberg, Irene L. Andrulis, Mary B. Daly, Saundra S. Buys, Ying Wei, Alice S. Whittemore, Angeline Protacio, Angela R. Bradbury, Wendy K. Chung, Julia A. Knight and Esther M. John
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:69
  44. In the light of the breast density legislation in the USA, it is important to know a woman’s breast cancer risk, but particularly her risk of a tumor that is not detected through mammographic screening (interv...

    Authors: Johanna O. P. Wanders, Katharina Holland, Nico Karssemeijer, Petra H. M. Peeters, Wouter B. Veldhuis, Ritse M. Mann and Carla H. van Gils
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:67
  45. Follistatin (FST) is an intrinsic inhibitor of activin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily of ligands. The prognostic value of FST and its family members, the follistatin-like (FSTL) prot...

    Authors: Darcie D. Seachrist, Steven T. Sizemore, Emhonta Johnson, Fadi W. Abdul-Karim, Kristen L. Weber Bonk and Ruth A. Keri
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:66
  46. Breast cancer cell lines are frequently used as model systems to study the cellular properties and biology of breast cancer. Our objective was to characterize a large, commonly employed panel of breast cancer ...

    Authors: Shari E. Smith, Paul Mellor, Alison K. Ward, Stephanie Kendall, Megan McDonald, Frederick S. Vizeacoumar, Franco J. Vizeacoumar, Scott Napper and Deborah H. Anderson
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:65
  47. In breast cancer, BRCA promoter hypermethylation and BRCA germline mutations are said to occur together rarely, but this property has not yet been translated into a clinical test. Our aim in this study was to inv...

    Authors: Shoko Vos, Cathy Beatrice Moelans and Paul Joannes van Diest
    Citation: Breast Cancer Research 2017 19:64

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