Molecular imaging is the visualization, characterization, and measurement of biological
processes at the molecular and cellular levels in a living system. At present, positron …

In recent years, obesity has been identified as a risk factor for the development of breast
cancer in postmenopausal women, and it has been associated with a poor outcome. Many …

The purpose of this study was to classify breast carcinomas based on variations in gene
expression patterns derived from cDNA microarrays and to correlate tumor characteristics to …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether positron emission
tomography (PET) with the glucose analog [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and the …

The development of acquired resistance to ErbB2 tyrosine kinase inhibitors limits the clinical
efficacy of this class of cancer therapeutics. Little is known about the mechanism (s) of …

16a-[18F] fluoro-1713-estradiol (FES) and [18Fjfluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) to validate
the concordance between tumor es trogen-receptor (ER) status as determined by FES-PET …

BACKGROUND Brain metastases (BM) are the most common intracranial tumors in adults.
To the authors' knowledge, established prognostic factors for survival after the diagnosis of …

Overexpression of Her2/neu is implicated in the development of resistance to the
antiestrogen tamoxifen (TAM) that exerts its inhibitory effect through interaction with estrogen …

Breast cancer can recur even decades after the primary therapy. Markers are needed to
predict cancer progression and the risk of late recurrence. The estrogen receptor (ER) …

The allele frequencies of three restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the oestrogen
receptor (ESR) locus were compared between breast cancer patients and controls …