Gastric cancer is one of the most common tumors and the second leading cause of cancer mortality in the world (Kamangar et al., 2006) . In China, it is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality of neoplasm in digestive system. Until now, clinical surgery is the mainstay of gastric cancer treatment and only can cure parts of patients in the early-stage, but for the patients in the advanced st...

The transcription factor, forkhead box protein M1 (FoxM1), and the tyrosine kinase receptor, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (Her-2), are aberrantly expressed in a number of human malignancies, and are closely associated with the development of cancer. However, their regulatory mechanisms and their involvement in tumor development have not been extensively investigated, particularly in...

Background: Progesterone receptor (PR), estrogen (ER) expression, human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER neu) amplification/ overexpression, and p53 nuclear protein accumulation are all significant prognostic biomarkers in breast cancer (BC). This work aims to assess the co-presence of overexpression with ER, PR, HER neu expression invasive BC specimens by IHC compare their various clinicopatholo...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy and the leading cause of cancer mortality in women worldwide. The human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2) is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor that is usually overexpressed in human breast cancers. Stable cell lines heterogeneously overexpressing HER2 are highly required as in vitro models for breast cancer research. T...

Previous studies showed that antagonists of bombesin (BN)/gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) inhibit the growth of various cancers by interfering with the growth-stimulatory effects of BN-like peptides and down-regulating epidermal growth factor receptors on tumors. Because the overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (ErbB-2/HER-2/neu) oncogene plays a role in the progressio...