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Breast cancer: computer simulation method for estimating optimal intervals for screeningJ S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Radiology 212:551-60. 1999..To develop and evaluate a mathematic method that can be used to determine the optimal screening interval for detection of breast cancer prior to distant metastatic spread...
How cancer at the primary site and in the lymph nodes contributes to the risk of cancer deathJames S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer 115:5095-107. 2009....- Why cancer at the primary site and in the lymph nodes contributes to the risk of cancer deathJames S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusett, USA
Cancer 115:5084-94. 2009.... 
Spread of human cancer cells occurs with probabilities indicative of a nongenetic mechanismJ S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Br J Cancer 93:1244-9. 2005..These values indicate that the spread of human breast cancer and melanoma cells is unlikely to occur by a mechanism requiring mutation at the time of spread...- The effect of tumor size and lymph node status on breast carcinoma lethalityJames S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 98:2133-43. 2003.... - Improved web-based calculators for predicting breast carcinoma outcomesJames S Michaelson
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 128:827-35. 2011..Our breast carcinoma calculators provide accurate and useful estimates of the risk of death, which can aid in analysis of the various adjuvant therapy options available to each patient... - The role of molecular discreteness in normal and cancerous growthJ Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Charlestown, Boston 02129, USA
Anticancer Res 19:4853-67. 1999..Indeed, such an approach allows us do a sufficiently good job of imitating the growth and spread of tumors as to be able to make estimates the most effective ways to both detect and treat cancer... - The pattern of breast cancer screening utilization and its consequencesJames Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 94:37-43. 2002.... - Predicting the survival of patients with breast carcinoma using tumor sizeJames S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 95:713-23. 2002..In this report, the authors provide such a method... - Matched pair analyses of stage IV breast cancer with or without resection of primary breast siteB Cady
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Gillette Center for Breast Cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 15:3384-95. 2008..Reports demonstrate improved survival of stage IV breast cancer patients with primary cancer resection. This may result from selection for surgery, rather than biological processes... - Development and validation of a model predictive of occult nipple involvement in women undergoing mastectomyJ E Rusby
Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Br J Surg 95:1356-61. 2008..This prospective study aimed to build a predictive model using preoperative information to aid selection for nipple-sparing mastectomy... - Do sentinel node micrometastases predict recurrence risk in ductal carcinoma in situ and ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion?Colleen D Murphy
Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Surg 196:566-8. 2008.... - Melanoma in the young: differences and similarities with adult melanoma: a case-matched controlled analysisDaan P Livestro
Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer 110:614-24. 2007..In this study, the use of an adult control group that was matched for tumor thickness adjusted for this bias and allowed for a comparison of the biology of pediatric melanoma and adult melanoma... - Gauging the impact of breast carcinoma screening in terms of tumor size and death rateJames S Michaelson
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 98:2114-24. 2003.... - Breast cancer diagnosis in women < or = 40 versus 50 to 60 years: increasing size and stage disparity compared with older women over timeKatherina Zabicki
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Yawkey 9, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 13:1072-7. 2006..Further study is required to determine whether more effective identification and screening of young, high-risk women can result in earlier detection... - Long-term risk of false-positive screening results and subsequent biopsy as a function of mammography useKaren Blanchard
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Yawkey 7939, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Radiology 240:335-42. 2006..CONCLUSION: Prompt annual attendance for mammographic screening reduces the occurrence of false-positive mammographic results... - Biology of desmoplastic melanoma: a case-control comparison with other melanomasDaan P Livestro
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:6739-46. 2005..Importantly, patients with DM have survival rates similar to patients with other melanomas of similar thickness... - Prevalence of hereditary breast/ovarian carcinoma risk in patients with a personal history of breast or ovarian carcinoma in a mammography populationFrancisco J Dominguez
Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 104:1849-53. 2005..This prevalence was considerably higher than the rate reported among women with no personal history of cancer, and has significant implications for their management, as well as for the capacity for risk assessment and testing... - Evaluation of hereditary risk in a mammography populationJulie L Jones
Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Clin Breast Cancer 6:38-44. 2005..New approaches to risk assessment and counseling are needed to apply our knowledge of hereditary risk to a broad population in a practical manner... - The age at which women begin mammographic screeningJames A Colbert
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 101:1850-9. 2004..These results also indicate that public health efforts to encourage women to start screening may be less critical than interventions to improve prompt return once they have entered the screening system... - Mammographic screening: patterns of use and estimated impact on breast carcinoma survivalKaren Blanchard
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Cancer 101:495-507. 2004..Improvements in the promptness with which women return to screening appear to have the potential to lead to considerable reductions in breast carcinoma death... - A decline in breast-cancer incidenceBlake Cady
N Engl J Med 357:511; author reply 513. 2007 - Breast duct anatomy in the human nipple: three-dimensional patterns and clinical implicationsJennifer E Rusby
Gillette Center for Breast Cancer, Division of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 106:171-9. 2007..There is variation in the number of ducts reported and little is known about the spatial location of ducts, their size, and their relationship to orifices on the surface...