1. President’s address: Clinical research on Breast Cancer at the aichi cancer center: Past, present, and future of hormone therapy

   • Shigeto Miura

   Announcement Pages: 264 - 269

2. Current status and perspectives in cancer chemotherapy

   • Makoto Ogawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 270 - 274

3. Molecular pathology of Breast Cancer: Prognostic and predictive markers in this century and the next

   • Diana M. Barnes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 282

4. Epidemiology and prevention of Breast Cancer in the 21 st century

   • Suketami Tominaga
   • Tetsuo Kuroishi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 288

5. Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer

   • Kazuyoshi Motomura
   • Hideo Inaji
   • Hiroki Koyama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 291

6. New treatment strategy for bone metastases from breast cancer

   • Norio Kohno
   • Sohei Kitazawa
   • Katunori Kawaguti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 292 - 297

7. Significance of steroid sulfatase expression in human breast cancer

   • Toshiaki Utsumi
   • Noriko Yoshimura
   • Nobuhiro Harada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 298 - 300

8. Adenoviral GM-CSF gene transduction into breast cancer cells induced long-lasting antitumor immunity in mice

   • Takahiro Ogawa
   • Masahiro Kusumoto
   • Masao Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 304

9. Identification of cancer antigens in breast cancer by the SEREX expression cloning method

   • Yuichi Obata
   • Toshitada Takahashi
   • Shigeto Miura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 311

10. Relevance of ER to the development of endometrial hyperplasia and adenocarcinoma

    • Kiyoko Kato
    • Shinji Horiuchi
    • Norio Wake

    OriginalPaper Pages: 312 - 319

11. Hormone refractory prostate cancer and fibroblast growth factor receptor

    • Akio Matsubara
    • Hiroaki Yasumoto
    • Tsuguru Usui

    OriginalPaper Pages: 320 - 324

12. Clinical significance of estrogen receptor β in breast cancer

    • Hirotaka Iwase
    • Yoko Omoto
    • Shunzo Kobayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 330

13. Localization of estrone sulfatase in human breast carcinomas

    • Toshiaki Saeki
    • Shigemitsu Takashima
    • David S. Salomon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 331 - 337

14. The shbg gene and hormone dependence of Breast Cancer: A novel mechanism of hormone dependence of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells based upon SHBG

    • Yoichi Murayama
    • Geoffrey L. Hammond
    • Kenichi Sugihara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 338 - 343

15. Current status and controversial issues concerning endocrine therapy for patients with recurrent breast cancer in Japan

    • Hiroshi Sonoo
    • Junichi Kurebayashi
    • Masataka Yoshimoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 344 - 350

16. Correlation of allelic loss with poor postoperative survival in breast cancer

    • Mitsuru Emi
    • Yoshihito Utada
    • Yusuke Nakamura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 356

17. Prognostic significance of the urokinase type plasminogen activator (u-PA) system in node-negative breast cancer

    • Eiichi Shiba
    • Seung Jin Kim
    • Shinzaburo Noguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 360

18. Plasma nucleosome levels in node-negative breast cancer patients

    • Katsumasa Kuroi
    • Chikako Tanaka
    • Masakazu Toi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 364

19. Maximum density of tumor staining obtained by preoperative IV-DSA as a prognostic indicator for node-negative breast cancer

    • Osamu Watanabe
    • Shunsuke Haga
    • Tetsuro Kajiwara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 369

20. New prognostic factors associated with long-term survival in node-negative breast cancer patients

    • Takao Kato
    • Tsunehito Kimura
    • Takeshi Kasajima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 370 - 377

21. Hormonal treatment strategy towards the 21st century

    • Yasuo Nomura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 378 - 379

22. Breast cancer chemotherapy in the 21st century

    • Tomoo Tajima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 380 - 381

23. New systemic therapy for breast cancer

    • Pierre Fumoleau
    • Dominique Berton-Rigaud
    • Stephanie Bordenave

    OriginalPaper Pages: 382 - 385

24. Intensive adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer

    • Robert C. F. Leonard

    OriginalPaper Pages: 386 - 390