We examined a 77-year-old woman who suffered from a left breast tumor. She had undergone right mastectomy for invasive ductal carcinoma at 68 years of age, and rectal resection for mucinous carcinoma at the age of 74 years. The left breast tumor measured 3.8 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm. Neoplastic cells consisted of atypical epithelial and myoepithelial cells. The former cells were polygonal and large. They...

The development of solid tumors is regulated by dynamic interactions between evolving neoplastic cells and their microenvironment. Luo et al. (2007) recently demonstrated that tumorinfiltrating immune cells expressing RANKL induce activation and nuclear localization of IKKα in prostatic epithelial tumor cells. This leads to repression of maspin, a critical suppressor of metastasis, and thus com...

Radiotherapy is the primary treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC), but radioresistance remains a serious obstacle to successful treatment in many cases. To identify the proteins involved in this resistance and to evaluate their potential for predicting NPC response to radiotherapy, we first established a radioresistant subclone cell line (CNE2-IR) derived from NPC cell line CNE2 by treating...

Ets transcription factors control multiple biological processes, including cell proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, transformation, and invasion. Pdef is an Ets transcription factor originally identified in prostate tissue. We demonstrate that human Pdef is expressed at high levels primarily in tissues with high epithelial cell content, including prostate, colon, and breast...