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Columnar cell lesions and subsequent breast cancer risk: a nested case-control studySarah A Aroner
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Breast Cancer Res 12:R61. 2010..However, the risk of subsequent breast cancer associated with the presence of CCL in a benign breast biopsy is poorly understood...- Comparison of molecular phenotypes of ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive breast cancerRulla M Tamimi
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Breast Cancer Res 10:R67. 2008..The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of these distinct molecular subtypes among cases of DCIS and invasive breast cancer... - Benign breast disease, recent alcohol consumption, and risk of breast cancer: a nested case-control studyRulla M Tamimi
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Breast Cancer Res 7:R555-62. 2005.... 
Changes and problematic areas in interpretation of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 6th Edition, for breast cancerJames L Connolly
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 130:287-91. 2006..This article describes changes and problematic areas in interpretation of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 6th edition, for breast cancer and provides practical advice...- Potential role of tissue microarrays for the study of biomarker expression in benign breast disease and normal breast tissueLaura C Collins
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 17:438-41. 2009..Whether or not TMAs may also be a potentially useful platform for assessing biomarkers in benign proliferative breast lesions (BPBL) and normal breast tissue has not been previously studied in detail... - Early life factors and incidence of proliferative benign breast diseaseHeather J Baer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2889-97. 2005..These results indicate that premenopausal women who were heavier at young ages have lower incidence of proliferative benign breast disease, consistent with previous findings for breast cancer... - The influence of family history on breast cancer risk in women with biopsy-confirmed benign breast disease: results from the Nurses' Health StudyLaura C Collins
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Cancer 107:1240-7. 2006..However, the influence of a positive family history (FH) on breast cancer risk among women with biopsy-confirmed BBD is less certain... - Magnitude and laterality of breast cancer risk according to histologic type of atypical hyperplasia: results from the Nurses' Health StudyLaura C Collins
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Cancer 109:180-7. 2007..Atypical hyperplasia (AH) in a benign breast biopsy is associated with an increased breast cancer risk. However, the influence of the histologic type of AH on the magnitude and laterality of breast cancer risk is poorly defined... - Lobule type and subsequent breast cancer risk: results from the Nurses' Health StudiesHeather J Baer
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
Cancer 115:1404-11. 2009..Lobules in normal breast tissue can be classified based on their degree of development, which may affect their susceptibility to carcinogenesis. However, few epidemiologic studies to date have addressed this... - High-resolution imaging of the thyroid gland using optical coherence tomographyLiron Pantanowitz
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Head Neck 26:425-34. 2004..The feasibility of optical coherence tomography for imaging thyroid tissue was explored ex vivo on the human thyroid gland... - Outcome after breast-conserving therapy for patients with stage I or II mucinous, medullary, or tubular breast carcinomaSarah A Thurman
Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 59:152-9. 2004..To evaluate the site of first failure of patients with early-stage tubular, mucinous, and medullary breast carcinoma after breast-conserving therapy and compare their results with those of patients with infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC)... - Adolescent diet and incidence of proliferative benign breast diseaseHeather J Baer
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:1159-67. 2003..05). Vegetable fat, vitamin E, and fiber intakes during adolescence were inversely associated with risk of proliferative BBD in this population. Confirmation of these associations may suggest a means for prevention of breast cancer... - Intake of fiber and nuts during adolescence and incidence of proliferative benign breast diseaseXuefen Su
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1033-46. 2010..We examined the association between adolescent fiber intake and proliferative BBD, a marker of increased breast cancer risk, in the Nurses' Health Study II... - Alcohol consumption and incidence of benign breast diseaseCelia Byrne
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:1369-74. 2002..However, greater alcohol consumption earlier in life (ages 18-22 years) was associated with higher proliferative BBD rates, suggesting that timing of exposure may be relevant to disease incidence... - Outcome of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ untreated after diagnostic biopsy: results from the Nurses' Health StudyLaura C Collins
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Cancer 103:1778-84. 2005..Studies of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) "treated" by diagnostic biopsy alone have been rare, but provide important opportunities to gain insights into the natural history of these lesions... - Genetic variation and circulating levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in relation to risk of proliferative benign breast diseaseXuefen Su
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 126:180-90. 2010..These results suggest that genetic variants and circulating levels of IGFBP-3 may play a role in the early stage of breast carcinogenesis... - Benign and malignant lesions in the human breast depicted with ultrahigh resolution and three-dimensional optical coherence tomographyPei Lin Hsiung
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02215, USA
Radiology 244:865-74. 2007..OCT is potentially useful for visualization of breast lesions at a resolution greater than that of currently available clinical imaging methods... - Nonmalignant lesions in breast core needle biopsies: to excise or not to excise?Timothy W Jacobs
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 26:1095-110. 2002..These include atypical ductal hyperplasia, lobular neoplasia (atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ), papillary lesions, radial scars, fibroepithelial lesions, mucocele-like lesions, and columnar cell lesions... - Diagnostic agreement in the evaluation of image-guided breast core needle biopsies: results from a randomized clinical trialLaura C Collins
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 28:126-31. 2004..89, 95% confidence interval 0.86-0.92). CONCLUSIONS: The level of diagnostic agreement in interpretation of breast CNB is extremely high among pathologists and is comparable to that seen for open surgical biopsy... - Pathology of the breast associated with HIV/AIDSLiron Pantanowitz
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Breast J 8:234-43. 2002..This article reviews benign and malignant breast diseases that are likely to be encountered in patients with HIV/AIDS... - Family history of breast cancer, age and benign breast diseasePenelope M Webb
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Int J Cancer 100:375-8. 2002..This link adds weight to the belief that BBD with atypia is a precursor or marker lesion for breast cancer... - A prospective study of diet and benign breast diseasePenelope M Webb
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, PO Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1106-13. 2004..They do, however, raise the possibility that high caffeine intake may increase, and use of vitamin supplements may decrease risk of developing AH... - Invasive Aspergillus of the temporal boneJames L Connolly
Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Am J Otolaryngol 28:134-6. 2007..Described is the case of invasive aspergillosis of the temporal bones after bone marrow transplant in an 8-year-old girl. The diagnosis and treatment of such infections are discussed... - Breast cancer staging: working with the sixth edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging ManualS Eva Singletary
Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
CA Cancer J Clin 56:37-47; quiz 50-1. 2006..Future developments in determining breast cancer prognosis will most likely incorporate new approaches to identifying the genetic fingerprint of individual tumors... - Universal newborn hearing screening: are we achieving the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) objectives?James L Connolly
Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Laryngoscope 115:232-6. 2005.... - What is needed to satisfy the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (COC) requirements for the pathologic reporting of cancer specimens?James L Connolly
Hum Pathol 34:111. 2003 - (99m)Tc sestamibi breast imaging for the examination of patients with dense and fatty breasts: multicenter studyIraj Khalkhali
Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
Radiology 222:149-55. 2002..Scintimammography led to similar and significant changes in the posttest likelihood of cancer for both dense and fatty breasts. CONCLUSION: The diagnostic accuracy of scintimammography is not affected by breast density...