Determination of estrogen receptor content in 82 breast cancer specimens with immunocytochemical estrogen receptor assay (ER-EIA) (Abbott) was compared with our routinely used binding assay using 125I-estradiol as radioligand with Scatchard plot analysis of the binding data. Although the estrogen receptor content measured with the ER-EIA was approximately 2-fold higher compared with the binding...

Human breast cancer cell proliferation is regulated by growth factors that bind to receptors with intrinsic tyrosine kinase (TK) activity, including the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. To determine whether inhibition of receptor TK activity inhibits tumor growth, we studied the effects of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, RG-13022, on cultured human breast cancer cells. RG-13022 represents a...

PURPOSE The effects of reproductive hormones on ovarian cancer growth are not well understood. Here, we examined the effects of estrous cycle variation and specific reproductive hormones on ovarian cancer growth. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We investigated the role of reproductive hormones in ovarian cancer growth using both in vivo and in vitro models of tumor growth. RESULTS In vivo experiments u...

Correlation in mortality data between breast cancer and colonic cancer, and increased incidence of colonic cancer in women with breast cancer suggest common factors in their etiology. Similarly protective effect of increasing parity from colonic cancer, and relatively better prognosis in women may imply a common role for sex steroid hormones. In this study clinicopathologic parameters as well a...

BACKGROUND Alcohol is a well-established risk factor for breast cancer, but pathways involved in alcohol-related breast carcinogenesis are not clearly defined. We examined the association between low-to-moderate alcohol intake and breast cancer subtypes by tumor hormone receptor status. MATERIALS AND METHODS A hospital-based case-control study was performed in 585 cases and 1,170 controls. In...

Human breast cancer cell proliferation is regulated by growth factors that bind to receptors with intrinsic tyrosine kinase (TK) activity, includ ing the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. To determine whether inhibition of receptor TK activity inhibits tumor growth, we studied the effects of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, RG-13022, on cultured human breast cancer cells. RG-13022 represents ...

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data indicate that high MDM2 expression correlates with all subtypes of breast cancer. Overexpression of MDM2 drives breast oncogenesis in the presence of wild-type or mutant p53 (mtp53). Importantly, estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancers overexpress MDM2 and estrogen mediates this expression. We previously demonstrated that this estrogen-MDM2 axis activ...

This exploratory work encompasses synthetic chemistry to develop novel 3, 5- diphenylethanone derivatives compounds based on the medicinally relevant scaffold of pyrazole as that standard SERM i.e. Tamoxifen and Raloxifene. Specific strategies for synthesis analogues were used subjected modeling docking studies analyzing ER subtype selectivity. The in-silico conducted in order attain a better i...

The aim of this work was to analyze methylation of the promoter sites of the ESR1 and PGR genes and to determine correlations with immunohistochemical expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors in ductal and lobular breast cancers. An observational, descriptive, molecular study was conducted on 20 ductal and 20 lobular breast cancer samples with immunohistochemical determination of estro...