The ability to maintain and study human tissues in in-vivo environment has proved to be a valuable tool in breast cancer research for several decades. The most widely tissues have been xenografts established human breast cancer cell lines into athymic nude mice. The aim of this study was to provide a new accurate and affordable method for the establishment of breast cancer xenograftin nude mice...

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) Is considered a highly specific blochem Ical marker of the prostate gland and is currently used for prostate cancer diagnosis and monitoring of patients with prostate adenocarcinoma. We recently demonstrated, however, that about 30% of female breast tumors produce a Mr 33,000 protein that has striking similarities to seminal PSA. In this study we characterized th...

Breast cancer is a prevalent heterogeneous malignant disease. Gene expression profiling by DNA microarray can classify breast tumors into five different molecular subtypes: luminal A, luminal B, HER-2, basal and normal- like which have differing prognosis. Recently it has been shown that immunohistochemistry (IHC) markers including estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human ep...

colorectal cancer most commonly metastasizes to the liver and lung. metastatic colon carcinoma (mcc) to the breast is extremely rare. krukenberg tumor is an uncommon metastatic tumor of the ovary. case presentation: a 38 years woman presented with abdominal pain. in evaluation colon cancer was diagnosed at stage 3. folfox chemotherapy was done. after one year she developed krukenberg tumor. few...

INTRODUCTION This paper presents two cases of very rare tumors of breast: breast sebaceos carcinoma, which has rarely been described in medical literature, and breast carcinosarcoma. Morphological characteristics and biological behavior of sebaceos carcinoma are still rather vague. Carcinosarcoma of the breast is a rare malignancy with distinct cell lines described as a breast carcinoma of duct...

Objective. Granular cell tumors arise from neurogenic mesenchymal stem cells and can occur anywhere throughout the body. They rarely present as breast masses and should be included in the differential diagnosis of pediatric breast neoplasms. We report a rare presentation of a pediatric breast granular cell tumor and a review of the literature. Participant. A 15-year-old female presented with an...

TOX3 is a newly identified gene that has been observed to correlate with breast cancer by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in recent years. In addition, it has been noted that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TOX3 gene have a strong correlation with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors. However, the role of TOX3 in breast carcinoma development is still unclear. There are li...

PURPOSE To determine whether multiple primary breast cancers have similar genetic profiles, specifically Oncotype Dx Recurrence Scores, and whether obtaining Oncotype Dx on each primary breast cancer affects chemotherapy recommendations. METHODS A database of patients with hormone receptor-positive, lymph node-negative, breast cancer was created for those tumors that were sent for Oncotype Dx...

Immunotherapy has historically been successful in highly antigenic tumors but has shown limited therapeutic efficacy in non-antigenic tumors such as breast cancers. Our previous studies in autoimmunity have demonstrated that increased antigen load within a tissue enhances immune reactivity against it. We therefore hypothesized that enhancing expression of target proteins on breast tumors can in...

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) Is considered a highly specific blochem Ical marker of the prostate gland and is currently used for prostate cancer diagnosis and monitoring of patients with prostate adenocarcinoma. We recently demonstrated, however, that about 30% of female breast tumors produce a Mr 33,000 protein that has striking similarities to seminal PSA. In this study we characterized th...