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Are all aromatase inhibitors alike?Kimberly L Blackwell
Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, P O Box 3893, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 112:35-43. 2008..No safety differences between the AIs have yet been identified. This article explores the pharmacologic and clinical differences between the AIs, based on data from clinical and preclinical studies...
Hyperthermia for locally advanced breast cancerTimothy M Zagar
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Int J Hyperthermia 26:618-24. 2010..The goal of this review is to highlight important research utilising HT in patients with LABC as well as to suggest future directions for its use...
Hyperthermia combined with radiation therapy for superficial breast cancer and chest wall recurrence: a review of the randomised dataTimothy M Zagar
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Int J Hyperthermia 26:612-7. 2010..In this review article, we will highlight the important prospective data that has been published regarding the combined use of hyperthermia and radiation...
Aromatase inhibitors for breast cancer: proven efficacy across the spectrum of diseaseChristina I Herold
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Clin Breast Cancer 8:50-64. 2008..Ongoing trials include head-to-head comparisons between the AIs in early-stage breast cancer; the results of these trials are eagerly anticipated and should further optimize the use of AIs...
Randomized study of Lapatinib alone or in combination with trastuzumab in women with ErbB2-positive, trastuzumab-refractory metastatic breast cancerKimberly L Blackwell
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27701, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:1124-30. 2010..EGF104900 compared the activity of lapatinib alone or in combination with trastuzumab in patients with ErbB2-positive, trastuzumab-refractory metastatic breast cancer (MBC)...
DCE-MRI parameters have potential to predict response of locally advanced breast cancer patients to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and hyperthermia: a pilot studyOana I Craciunescu
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Int J Hyperthermia 25:405-15. 2009..The MPTS was extracted from pre-treatment MRI parameters, so independent of the combined therapy used...
Understanding the mechanisms behind trastuzumab therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancerNeil L Spector
Duke Translational Research Oncology Program, Duke University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:5838-47. 2009..The mechanisms of action of trastuzumab have not been fully elucidated, and data available to date are reviewed here. The impact of the mechanisms of action on clinical benefit also is discussed...
Long term disease-free survival and T cell and antibody responses in women with high-risk Her2+ breast cancer following vaccination against Her2Michael A Morse
Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3233, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Transl Med 5:42. 2007..We proposed to address these concerns by using cancer vaccines to stimulate HER2 intracellular domain (ICD)-specific T cell and antibody responses...
Young age at diagnosis correlates with worse prognosis and defines a subset of breast cancers with shared patterns of gene expressionCarey K Anders
Duke University Medical Center, Box 3841, 3829 Duke South, Red Zone, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Clin Oncol 26:3324-30. 2008..Breast cancer arising in young women is correlated with inferior survival and higher incidence of negative clinicopathologic features. The biology driving this aggressive disease has yet to be defined...
Her2/neu signaling blockade improves tumor oxygenation in a multifactorial fashion in Her2/neu+ tumorsMatthew E Hardee
Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 22710, USA
Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 63:219-28. 2009..The growth factor receptor, Her2/neu, is overexpressed in 25-30% of breast tumors. Tumors that are Her2(+) may have an altered state of oxygenation, relative to Her2(-) tumors, due to differences in tumor growth rate and angiogenesis...
Analysis of tumor environmental response and oncogenic pathway activation identifies distinct basal and luminal features in HER2-related breast tumor subtypesMichael L Gatza
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, CIEMAS Building, 101Science Dr, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Breast Cancer Res 13:R62. 2011..Although the importance of these non-genetic factors is well recognized, it is not clear how to integrate these factors within the genetic framework of cancer as the next logical step in understanding tumor heterogeneity...
Truncated ErbB2 expressed in tumor cell nuclei contributes to acquired therapeutic resistance to ErbB2 kinase inhibitorsWenle Xia
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Research Center, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Mol Cancer Ther 10:1367-74. 2011..Elucidating the function of nuclear, truncated forms of ErbB2, and developing therapeutic strategies to block their expression and/or activation may enhance the clinical efficacy of ErbB2 TKIs...
New perspectives on zoledronic acid in breast cancer: potential augmentation of anticancer immune responseErika Hamilton
Department of Medicine Medical Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Cancer Invest 29:533-41. 2011..These new data provide growing insight into a potential mechanism of action for some of the anticancer activity demonstrated by zoledronic acid in breast cancer clinical trials...
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway activation in breast cancer brain metastasesBarbara Adamo
Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology, CB 7305, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Breast Cancer Res 13:R125. 2011..Secondary analyses included PI3K pathway activation status and associations with time to distant recurrence (TTDR) and time to BCBMs. Similar analyses were also conducted among the subset of patients with triple-negative BCBMs...
Comparative genome-wide screening identifies a conserved doxorubicin repair network that is diploid specific in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeTammy J Westmoreland
Department of Surgical Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e5830. 2009....
The impact of adjuvant endocrine therapy on reducing the risk of distant metastases in hormone-responsive breast cancerChristina I Herold
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Breast 17:S15-24. 2008..Possible differences in efficacy may be related to differences in potency. Two ongoing trials directly comparing two AIs - the Femara versus Anastrozole Clinical Evaluation and MA.27 - may provide further information...
Safety of bevacizumab in patients with metastatic breast cancerErika P Hamilton
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Oncology 80:314-25. 2011..Current adverse event management strategies, based on guidelines and experience from these trials, are outlined...
