1. Who benefits from hormone therapy?

   • Masakazu Toi
   • Yuichi lino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 122

2. Basic research for hormone-sensitivity of breast cancer

   • Shin-ichi Hayashi
   • Yuri Yamaguchi

   Review Article Pages: 123 - 128

3. New development in intracrinology of breast carcinoma

   • Hironobu Sasano
   • Takashi Suzuki
   • Takuya Moriya

   Review Article Pages: 129 - 136

4. Activation of PI3K/Akt signaling and hormone resistance in breast cancer

   • Eriko Tokunaga
   • Yasue Kimura
   • Yoshihiko Maehara

   Review Article Pages: 137 - 144

5. Breast-conserving treatment for breast cancer: Long-term follow-up results and issues to be solved

   • Hideo Inaji

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 146

6. Clinical practice and outcome of breast-conserving treatment: The effectiveness of preoperative systemic chemotherapy

   • Takashi Fukutomi

   Review Article Pages: 147 - 151

7. Investigation of factors related to periods to ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence after breast-conserving surgery and measures for preventing recurrence in early breast cancer

   • Reiki Nishimura
   • Miwa Akizuki
   • Ryuu Ootao

   Review Article Pages: 152 - 158

8. Efficacy and toxicity of vinorelbine with doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide combination chemotherapy in a phase I-II study for advanced or recurrent breast cancer patients

   • Toshiaki Saeki
   • Shigemitsu Takashima
   • Kazuhiro Kanda

   Original Article Pages: 159 - 165

9. Combination docetaxel and trastuzumab treatment for patients with her-2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer: A multicenter, phase-II study

   • Nobuaki Sato
   • Muneaki Sano
   • Morihiko Kimura

   Original Article Pages: 166 - 171

10. High prevalence of HER-2/neu and p53 overexpression in inflammatory breast cancer

    • Masataka Sawaki
    • Yoshinori Ito
    • Kiyohiko Hatake

    Original Article Pages: 172 - 178

11. Added value of the presence of blue nodes or hot nodes in sentinel lymph node biopsy of breast cancer

    • Hiroyuki Takei
    • Kimito Suemasu
    • Toshio Tabei

    Original Article Pages: 179 - 185

12. Sentinel node micrometastasis and distant failure in breast cancer patients

    • Takeshi Nagashima
    • Masahiro Sakakibara
    • Masaru Miyazaki

    Original Article Pages: 186 - 191

13. Clinical experience with docetaxel for Chinese breast cancer patients: Hematological toxicity profiles

    • Adrian YS Yip
    • Louis WC Chow

    Original Article Pages: 192 - 196

14. Results of a questionnaire survey for symptom of late complications caused by radiotherapy in breast conserving therapy

    • Hiromichi Ishiyama
    • Keiji Niino
    • Kazushige Hayakawa

    Original Article Pages: 197 - 201

15. A case report of paraneoplastic neurological syndrome associated with occuft breast cancer

    • Teru Kawasoe
    • Yutaka Yamamoto
    • Hirotaka Iwase

    Case Report Pages: 202 - 204

16. An uncommon case of diabetic mastopathy in type II non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

    • Keiichi Sotomez
    • Tatsuya Ohnishi
    • Hisami Iri

    Case Report Pages: 205 - 209

17. Ductal Carcinomain-situ of the breast detected by [F-18] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography

    • Tetsuhiro Owaki
    • Yuko Kijima
    • Takashi Aikou

    Case Report Pages: 210 - 213

18. A case of breast carcinoma with cartilaginous and osseous metaplasia

    • Yuko Kijima
    • Yoshihisa Umekita
    • Takashi Aikou

    Case Report Pages: 214 - 219

19. S-1 (TS-1) maintained complete response for approximately 10 years in a case of metastatic breast cancer

    • Naruto Taira
    • Kenjiro Aogi
    • Toshiaki Saeki

    Case Report Pages: 220 - 224

20. A case of breast cancer metastatic to the tail of the pancreas

    • Noriyuki Tohnosu
    • Kazuo Narushima
    • Satoru Ishii

    Case Report Pages: 225 - 229