1. Medical history: Seishu hanaoka and his success in breast cancer surgery under general anesthesia two hundred years ago

   • Masaru Izuo

   Special Contribution Pages: 319 - 324

2. Ductal carcinomain situ and related lesions of the breast: Recent advances in pathology practice

   • Takuya Moriya
   • Hisashi Hirakawa
   • Noriaki Ohuchi

   Review Article Pages: 325 - 333

3. Utility of immunohistochemistry in breast cancer practice

   • Shinobu Umemura
   • R. Yoshiyuki Osamura

   Review Article Pages: 334 - 338

4. Core needle biopsy (CNB) as a diagnostic method for breast lesions: Comparison with fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA)

   • Tetsunari Oyama
   • Yukio Koibuchi
   • Grace McKee

   Review Article Pages: 339 - 342

5. Pathological approach to evolving prognostic and predictive factors of breast cancer

   • Koji Arihiro

   Review Article Pages: 343 - 349

6. Pathological approach to breast conserving therapy

   • Tsutomu Kasugai
   • Yasuyuki Yoshida
   • Kikuichi Nakagawa

   Review Article Pages: 350 - 355

7. Evaluation of sensitivity to 5-FU on the basis of thymidylate synthase (TS)/dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase(DPD) activity and chromosomal analysis in micro tissue specimens of breast cancer

   • Daisuke Ota
   • Mikihiro Kusama
   • Tatsuya Aoki

   Original Article Pages: 356 - 366

8. PLC and PI3K Pathways are Important in the Inhibition of EGF-lnduced Cell Migration by Gefitinib (‘lressa’, ZD1839)

   • Tadahiko Shien
   • Hiroyoshi Doihara
   • Nobuyoshi Shimizu

   Original Article Pages: 367 - 373

9. A Multicenter Phase II Study of Docetaxel 60 mg/m² as First-Line Chemotherapy in Patients with Advanced or Recurrent Breast Cancer

   • Takashi Ishikawa
   • Satoru Shimizu
   • Kanagawa Breast Cancer Treatment Society (KBCTS)

   Original Article Pages: 374 - 379

10. CYP17 & SULT1A1 gene polymorphisms in Indian breast cancer

    • Priya Chacko
    • Balakrishnan Rajan
    • M Radhakrishna Pillai

    Original Article Pages: 380 - 388

11. Significance of serum tumor markers in monitoring advanced breast cancer patients treated with systemic therapy: A prospective study

    • Junichi Kurebayashi
    • Reiki Nishimura
    • Tetsuya Taguchi

    Original Article Pages: 389 - 395

12. Primary osteosarcoma of the breast

    • Hirohito Momoi
    • Yasuo Wada
    • Manabu Fukumoto

    Case Report Pages: 396 - 400

13. Locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer with cartilaginous and/or osseous metaplasia showing excellent response to chemotherapy

    • Takeshi Sakuma
    • Tadashi Nomizu
    • Yoshiko Yamaguchi

    Case Report Pages: 401 - 408

14. A case of intracystic papillary carcinoma with a multilocular cyst of the breast in male

    • Minoru Kihara
    • Natsumi Mori
    • Hiroyasu Yokomise

    Case Report Pages: 409 - 412