1. Results of questionnaires concerning breast cancer surgery in Japan: an update in 2000

   • The Japanese Breast Cancer Society

   News Pages: 1 - 1

2. A survival benefit from locoregional therapy: Implication for halsted’s hypothesis

   • Masakuni Noguchi

   Editorial Pages: 3 - 5

3. Commentary

   • David Khayat
   • Gilbert Cohen Aloro

   News Pages: 6 - 7

4. The role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer treatment

   • Tadashi Ikeda
   • Hiromitsu Jinno
   • Masaki Kitajima

   Review Article Pages: 8 - 14

5. Efficacy of 3D-MR mammography for breast conserving surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

   • Seigo Nakamura
   • Hironori Kenjo
   • Koyu Suzuki

   Original Article Pages: 15 - 19

6. Breast-conserving treatment after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in large breast cancer

   • Hideo Inaji
   • Yoshifumi Komoike
   • Hiroki Koyama

   Review Article Pages: 20 - 25

7. Analysis of gene expression involved in brain metastasis from breast cancer using cDNA microarray

   • Itaru Nishizuka
   • Takashi Ishikawa
   • Hiroshi Shimada

   Original Article Pages: 26 - 32

8. Mutation analysis of the mel-18 gene that shows decreased expression in human breast cancer cell lines

   • Fumie Matsuo
   • Ken-ichi Yano
   • Yoshio Miki

   Original Article Pages: 33 - 38

9. In vitro regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor by estrogens and antiestrogens in estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer

   • Hiroyuki Takei
   • Eun-Sook Lee
   • V. Craig Jordan

   Original Article Pages: 39 - 42

10. Histological and immunohistochemical analysis of apocrine breast carcinoma

    • Kaneyuki Matsuo
    • Takashi Fukutomi
    • Hitoshi Tsuda

    Original Article Pages: 43 - 49

11. UCN-01 (7-hydroxystaurosporine) inhibits the growth of human breast cancer xenografts through disruption of signal transduction

    • Junichi Koh
    • Tetsuro Kubota
    • Masaki Kitajima

    Original Article Pages: 50 - 54

12. Histological subtypes of ductal carcinomain situ of the breast

    • Hideyuki Ajisaka
    • Koichiro Tsugawa
    • Akitaka Nonomura

    Original Article Pages: 55 - 61

13. False-positive helical CT findings of multifocal and multicentric breast cancer: is attenuation of tumor useful for diagnosing enhanced lesions?

    • Takayoshi Uematsu
    • Muneaki Sano
    • Keiichi Homma

    Original Article Pages: 62 - 68

14. MR-axillography oriented surgical sampling for assessment of nodal status in the selection of patients with breast cancer for axillary lymph nodes dissection

    • Takaomi Suzuma
    • Takeo Sakurai
    • Yasuaki Naito

    Original Article Pages: 69 - 74

15. Concordance in pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy between invasive and noninvasive components of primary breast carcinomas

    • Kaneyuki Matsuo
    • Takashi Fukutomi
    • Sadako Akashi-Tanaka

    Original Article Pages: 75 - 81

16. A case of pulmonary metastasis from breast cancer following an 18-year disease-free interval that responded to tamoxifen treatment

    • Masaki Tomita
    • Yasunori Matsuzaki
    • Toshio Onitsuka

    Case Report Pages: 82 - 85

17. Case reports of malignant mucocele-like lesions

    • Haiying Zhao
    • Tadaoki Morimoto
    • Keisuke Izumi

    Case Report Pages: 86 - 90

18. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 91 - 91