Journal ArticleCurr Probl Cancer · December 2021
INTRODUCTION: Mucocele-like lesions (MLL) of the breast are rare entities which are considered to harbor uncertain malignant potential. Current UK guidelines recommend vacuum assisted excision (VAE) of all such lesions regardless of whether they display ep ...
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Journal ArticleJ Physician Assist Educ · December 2015
Curriculum and course redesign are expected and intentional efforts in health professions education. For physician assistant (PA) education, ongoing program self-assessment is a required accreditation standard and may guide deliberate changes within curric ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg · October 2009
BACKGROUND: The value of breast self-examination (BSE) to detect early breast cancer is controversial. METHODS: Within an institutional review board-approved prospective study, 147 high-risk women were enrolled from 2004 to 2007. Yearly clinical examinatio ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · May 2009
BACKGROUND: Random periareolar fine needle aspiration (RPFNA) is a research technique developed to assess short-term breast cancer risk in women at increased risk of breast cancer. Although there is increasing acceptance of RPFNA, neither the reproducibili ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · August 2008
PURPOSE: Currently, we lack biomarkers to predict whether high-risk women with mammary atypia will respond to tamoxifen chemoprevention. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Thirty-four women with cytologic mammary atypia from the Duke University High-Risk clinic were off ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · November 15, 2007
PURPOSE: p16(INK4a) has been appreciated as a key regulator of cell cycle progression and senescence. Cultured human mammary epithelial cells that lack p16(INK4a) activity have been shown to exhibit premalignant phenotypes, such as telomeric dysfunction, c ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · May 2007
Random periareolar fine-needle aspiration (RPFNA) is a research procedure designed to (a) evaluate short-term breast cancer risk in women at high risk for developing breast cancer, and (b) track response to chemoprevention. Of import, cellular atypia in br ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · March 2007
High body mass index (BMI >or= 25 kg/m2) is associated with increased postmenopausal breast cancer incidence and mortality. However, few studies have explored associations between BMI and direct measures on target tissue. Epithelial cytology was assessed i ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · January 2007
Mutation of the breast cancer-associated gene 1 (BRCA1) plays an important role in familial breast cancer. Although hypermethylation of the BRCA1 promoter has been observed in sporadic breast cancer, its exact role in breast cancer initiation and associati ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev · April 2005
Methylation of the retinoic acid receptor-beta2 (RARbeta2) P2 promoter is hypothesized to be an important mechanism for loss of RARbeta2 function during early mammary carcinogenesis. The frequency of RARbeta2 P2 methylation was tested in (a) 16 early stage ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · July 15, 2004
1014 Background: Methylation of RARbeta P2 promoter is hypothesized to be an important early event in mammary carcinogenesis. Random Periareolar Breast Fine Needle Aspiration (RPFNA) is a research technique developed to repeatedly sample mammary cells from ...
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