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  1. Hype or hope? The strange case of platinum salts’ renaissance in breast cancer
  2. The HERBA Study: A Retrospective Multi-Institutional Italian Study on Patients With Brain Metastases From HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
  3. Platinum Salts in Patients with Breast Cancer: A Focus on Predictive Factors
  4. Role of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase in Stage III Colorectal Cancer
  5. Mucosal Injury during Anti-Cancer Treatment: From Pathobiology to Bedside
  6. Preliminary safety and efficacy of first-line pertuzumab combined with trastuzumab and taxane therapy for HER2-positive locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer (PERUSE)
  7. A New Genetic Risk Score to Predict the Outcome of Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Treated With First-Line Exemestane: Results From a Prospective Study
  8. The IMPACT study: early loss of skeletal muscle mass in advanced pancreatic cancer patients
  9. Circulating tumor DNA analysis in breast cancer: Is it ready for prime-time?
  10. Eribulin in the treatment of advanced breast cancer: real-world scenario from 39 Italian centers – ESEMPiO study
  11. Post-neoadjuvant strategies in breast cancer: From risk assessment to treatment escalation
  12. BET proteins regulate homologous recombination-mediated DNA repair: BRCAness and implications for cancer therapy
  13. Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes, programmed death ligand 1 and cyclooxygenase-2 expression in skin melanoma of elderly patients
  14. An Italian Delphi study to evaluate consensus on adjuvant endocrine therapy in premenopausal patients with breast cancer: the ERA project
  15. Prognostic evaluation in palliative care: final results from a prospective cohort study
  16. Defining a prognostic score based on O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase cut-off methylation level determined by pyrosequencing in patients with glioblastoma multiforme
  17. Adjuvant endocrine therapy in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer: Evidence evaluation and GRADE recommendations by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM)
  18. Controversies in monitoring metastatic breast cancer during systemic treatment. Results of a GIM (Gruppo Italiano Mammella) survey
  19. Palbociclib as single agent or in combination with the endocrine therapy received before disease progression for estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: TREnd trial
  20. Use and perception of complementary and alternative medicine among cancer patients: the CAMEO-PRO study
  21. Tailoring Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Premenopausal Breast Cancer
  22. Androgen receptor in triple negative breast cancer: A potential target for the targetless subtype
  23. Reply to the letter “Body mass index and clinical outcomes in trastuzumab-treated metastatic breast cancer patients: An alternative explanation for the lack of association”
  24. Determinants of Last-line Treatment in Metastatic Breast Cancer
  25. Atezolizumab for the treatment of breast cancer
  26. MGMT pyrosequencing-based cut-off methylation level and clinical outcome in patients with glioblastoma multiforme
  27. Comparison of primary breast cancer and paired metastases: biomarkers discordance influence on outcome and therapy
  28. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 dual blockade with trastuzumab and pertuzumab in real life: Italian clinical practice versus the CLEOPATRA trial results
  29. Impact of body mass index on the clinical outcomes of patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer
  30. Characterizing Metastatic HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer at the CDH1 Haplotype
  31. Androgen receptor in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer: Beyond expression
  32. Patterns of Care and Clinical Outcomes of HER2-positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients With Newly Diagnosed Stage IV or Recurrent Disease Undergoing First-line Trastuzumab-based Therapy: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study
  33. Luminal-like HER2-negative stage IA breast cancer: a multicenter retrospective study on long-term outcome with propensity score analysis
  34. Efficacy and safety of eribulin in taxane-refractory patients in the ‘real world’
  35. Erratum to: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and molecular response after neoadjuvant therapy for HR+/HER2− breast cancer: results from two prospective trials
  36. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and molecular response after neoadjuvant therapy for HR+/HER2− breast cancer: results from two prospective trials
  37. Caring for cancer survivors: perspectives of oncologists, general practitioners and patients in Italy
  38. Chemotherapy versus endocrine therapy as first-line treatment in patients with luminal-like HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: A propensity score analysis
  39. Pertuzumab and breast cancer: another piece in the anti-HER2 puzzle
  40. Dose-dense adjuvant chemotherapy in premenopausal breast cancer patients: A pooled analysis of the MIG1 and GIM2 phase III studies
  41. Bevacizumab in breast cancer
  42. Final results of the TANIA randomised phase III trial of bevacizumab after progression on first-line bevacizumab therapy for HER2-negative locally recurrent/metastatic breast cancer
  43. The prognostic performance of Adjuvant! Online and Nottingham Prognostic Index in young breast cancer patients
  44. Low-Dose Oral Cyclophosphamide and Methotrexate Maintenance for Hormone Receptor–Negative Early Breast Cancer: International Breast Cancer Study Group Trial 22-00
  45. BNC2 is a putative tumor suppressor gene in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma and impacts cell survival after oxidative stress
  46. Real-time tests of multiple genome alterations take the first steps into the clinic: a learning example
  47. Do platinum salts fit all triple negative breast cancers?
  48. Adjuvant Tamoxifen Plus Ovarian Function Suppression Versus Tamoxifen Alone in Premenopausal Women With Early Breast Cancer: Patient-Reported Outcomes in the Suppression of Ovarian Function Trial
  49. Central nervous system involvement in breast cancer patients: Is the therapeutic landscape changing too slowly?
  50. Adjuvant ovarian function suppression and cognitive function in women with breast cancer
  51. Translational and clinical research highlights from the 38th San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
  52. In patients with metastatic breast cancer the identification of circulating tumor cells in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is associated with a poor prognosis
  53. Current challenges in HER2-positive breast cancer
  54. Hepatitis B and cancer: A practical guide for the oncologist
  55. Second-line single-agent chemotherapy in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative metastatic breast cancer: A systematic review
  56. Corrigendum to “Gene expression profiling in breast cancer: A clinical perspective” [The Breast 22 (2013) 109–120]
  57. Endocrine therapy in premenopausal women with breast cancer: a critical appraisal of current evidence
  58. Skeletal metastases from breast cancer: pathogenesis of bone tropism and treatment strategy
  59. Patient-reported outcomes with adjuvant exemestane versus tamoxifen in premenopausal women with early breast cancer undergoing ovarian suppression (TEXT and SOFT): a combined analysis of two phase 3 randomised trials
  60. Patterns of Care and Clinical Outcomes of First‐Line Trastuzumab‐Based Therapy in HER2‐Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Relapsing After (Neo)Adjuvant Trastuzumab: An Italian Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study
  61. Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer in a Real‐World Scenario: Is Progression‐Free Survival With First Line Predictive of Benefit From Second and Later Lines?
  62. Fluorouracil and dose-dense chemotherapy in adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage breast cancer: an open-label, 2 × 2 factorial, randomised phase 3 trial
  63. Observational study on adjuvant trastuzumab in HER2-positive early breast cancer patients
  64. Epigenetic bivalent marking is permissive to the synergy of HDAC and PARP inhibitors on TXNIP expression in breast cancer cells
  65. MR mammography using diffusion-weighted imaging in evaluating breast cancer: a correlation with proliferation index
  66. Pattern of metastasis and outcome in patients with breast cancer
  67. Preoperative Carboplatin–Paclitaxel–Bevacizumab in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Final Results of the Phase II Ca.Pa.Be Study
  68. Looking for predictive markers in breast cancer
  69. Bevacizumab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone as second-line treatment for patients with HER2-negative locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer after first-line treatment with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy (TANIA): an open-label, randomi...
  70. Capecitabine-induced cardiotoxicity: more evidence or clinical approaches to protect the patients' heart?
  71. Follow-up of patients with early breast cancer: Is it time to rewrite the story?
  72. Adjuvant Exemestane with Ovarian Suppression in Premenopausal Breast Cancer
  73. Vaccination for seasonal influenza in patients with cancer: recommendations of the Italian Society of Medical Oncology (AIOM)
  74. Measures of Outcome in Metastatic Breast Cancer: Insights From a Real‐World Scenario
  75. Risk of unplanned visits for colorectal cancer outpatients receiving chemotherapy: a case-crossover study
  76. Body mass index and circulating oestrone sulphate in women treated with adjuvant letrozole
  77. Anti-Mullerian hormone: determination of ovarian reserve in early breast cancer patients
  78. Primary Therapy in Breast Cancer: What Have We Learned from Landmark Trials?
  79. Factors affecting patient's perception of anticancer treatments side-effects: an observational study
  80. Exploring Prognostic and Predictive Value of Biomarkers: The Example of Thymidine Phosphorylase in Breast Cancer
  81. Bevacizumab in older patients with advanced colorectal or breast cancer
  82. One-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) for intraoperative evaluation of sentinel lymph node status in breast cancer: a comparative study between CK19 protein expression and CK19 mRNA level in primary tumors and lymph node metastasis
  83. Risk factors and survival outcomes in patients with brain metastases from breast cancer
  84. Making Capecitabine Targeted Therapy for Breast Cancer: Which is the Role of Thymidine Phosphorylase?
  85. Expression of thymidine phosphorylase and cyclooxygenase-2 in melanoma
  86. Adjuvant pegylated liposomal doxorubicin for older women with endocrine nonresponsive breast cancer who are NOT suitable for a “standard chemotherapy regimen”: The CASA randomized trial
  87. Gene expression profiling in breast cancer: A clinical perspective
  88. Prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and the role of neurokinin 1 inhibitors
  89. Evidence-based appraisal of the upfront treatment for unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer patients
  90. Plasma estrone sulfate concentrations and genetic variation at the CYP19A1 locus in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer treated with letrozole
  91. Acetylation on critical lysine residues of Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) in triple negative breast cancers
  92. Overcoming Treatment Resistance in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
  93. Final results of a multicenter phase II clinical trial evaluating the activity of single-agent lapatinib in patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer and HER2-positive circulating tumor cells. A proof-of-concept study
  94. Exploratory predictive and prognostic factors in advanced breast cancer treated with metronomic chemotherapy
  95. Expression of Dicer and Drosha in triple-negative breast cancer
  96. B-Cell Lymphoma Presenting as Acute Pancreatitis
  97. Treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer: current status and future perspectives
  98. Histone deacetylase inhibitors induce thymidine phosphorylase expression in cultured breast cancer cell lines
  99. Magnitude of risks and benefits of the addition of bevacizumab to chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer patients: Meta-regression analysis of randomized trials
  100. Adjuvant endocrine therapy in postmenopausal breast cancer patients: Does hormone receptor status influence decision-making?
  101. First-line chemotherapy with or without biologic agents for metastatic breast cancer
  102. A multicentre Phase II study of non-pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in combination with trastuzumab and docetaxel as first-line therapy in metastatic breast cancer
  103. Phase III Study of Bevacizumab Plus Docetaxel Compared With Placebo Plus Docetaxel for the First-Line Treatment of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer
  104. Locoregional recurrence of triple-negative breast cancer after breast-conserving surgery and radiation
  105. Hormone therapy in elderly breast cancer patients with comorbidities
  106. What Does Similarity Mean in Clinical Trials?
  107. Determinants of recovery from amenorrhea in premenopausal breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy in the taxane era
  108. Pharmacology and therapeutic efficacy of capecitabine: focus on breast and colorectal cancer
  109. Effect of age on hemoglobin levels and quality of life following treatment with epoetin alfa in cancer patients
  110. Thymidine phosphorylase expression and benefit from capecitabine in patients with advanced breast cancer
  111. From the podium to the patient: bringing the 2008 ASCO meeting to the clinic
  112. Thymidine phosphorylase expression is associated with time to progression in patients receiving low-dose, docetaxel-modulated capecitabine for metastatic breast cancer
  113. Cognitive functions and elderly cancer patients receiving anticancer treatment: A prospective study
  114. Expression of periostin in human breast cancer
  115. Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in elderly patients with metastatic breast cancer
  116. Hot topics and landmark studies from the 43rd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
  117. Information to cancer patients: a questionnaire survey in three different geographical areas in Italy
  118. Role of pre-surgical breast MRI in the management of invasive breast carcinoma
  119. Phase II, randomized trial of preoperative epirubicin-paclitaxel +/− gefitinib with biomarker evaluation in operable breast cancer
  120. Markers of the uPA System and Common Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer
  121. Correlation between variation in quality of life and change in hemoglobin level after treatment with epoetin alfa 40,000 IU administered once-weekly
  122. Stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: results, follow-up and correlation with radiological suspicion
  123. Progress and new standards of care in the management of HER-2 positive breast cancer
  124. Bone Scan for Baseline Staging in Invasive Breast Cancer at the Time of Primary Presentation
  125. Dramatic tumour response to pemetrexed single-agent in an elderly patient with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a case report
  126. Highlights from the 42nd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
  127. Sonographic criteria for differentiation of benign and malignant solid breast lesions: size is of value
  128. HEX expression and localization in normal mammary gland and breast carcinoma
  129. Angiogenesis and cancer: A cross-talk between basic science and clinical trials (the “do ut des” paradigm)
  130. First-Line Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer
  131. Multicenter phase II study of trastuzumab in combination with epirubicin and docetaxel as first-line treatment for HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer
  132. Shrinking the Tumor, Shrinking the Patient Sample Size: The Early Disclosure Dilemma
  133. PTEN and Egr-1 expression in thyroid proliferative lesions
  134. Topoisomerase IIα and APE/ref-1 are associated with pathologic response to primary anthracycline-based chemotherapy for breast cancer
  135. Baseline staging tests after a new diagnosis of breast cancer: further evidence of their limited indications
  136. Trastuzumab and Breast Cancer. Are we just Beyond the Prologue of a Fascinating Story?
  137. Sequential chemotherapy with paclitaxel plus cisplatin, followed by vinorelbine, followed by gemcitabine in advanced non-small cell lung cancer: an Alpe-Adria Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary group study (ATOM 001)
  138. d-Dimer and Venous Thromboembolism
  139. Phase II study of a triplet regimen in advanced colorectal cancer using methotrexate, oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil
  140. Primary systemic therapy in patients with breast cancer: rationale of use and magnitude of evidence
  141. Galectin-3 expression in non-small cell lung carcinoma
  142. Bone scanning in lung cancer: Pretest probability is of value
  143. What is the effect of systemic anticancer treatment on cognitive function?
  144. Proteomic evaluation of core biopsy specimens from breast lesions
  145. Lack of correlation between immunohistochemical expression of E2F-1, thymidylate synthase expression and clinical response to5-fluorouracil in advanced colorectal cancer
  146. Taxane-induced nail changes: incidence, clinical presentationand outcome
  147. Role of Mammography, Ultrasound and Large Core Biopsy in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Papillary Breast Lesions
  148. Expression and Localization of the Homeodomain-Containing Protein HEX in Human Thyroid Tumors
  149. Expression and Localization of the Homeodomain-Containing Protein HEX in Human Thyroid Tumors
  150. Prognostic role of Ape/Ref-1 subcellular expression in stage I-III breast carcinomas
  151. Balance between Cell Division and Cell Death as Predictor of Survival in Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
  152. Tamoxifen-Induced Total Alopecia
  153. Fatigue: A main component of anemia symptomatology
  154. Combined analysis of MIB-1 and thyroid transcription factor-1 predicts survival in non-small cell lung carcinomas
  155. Diagnostic accuracy of perforated compression grid approach for mammographically guided core needle biopsy of breast lesions
  156. Combined yolk sac tumor and adenocarcinoma in a gastric stump
  157. Image-guided core breast biopsy: a suitable method for pre-operative biological characterization of small (pT1) breast carcinomas
  158. Impact of hepatitis C virus infection on clinical features, quality of life and survival of patients with lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma/immunocytoma
  159. Predictors of Axillary Lymph Node Metastases in Patients with T1 Breast Carcinoma
  160. TTF-1 protein expression in pleural malignant mesotheliomas and adenocarcinomas of the lung
  161. Large core biopsy for diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of invasive breast carcinomas
  162. Angiogenesis and Tumor Growth
  163. Molecular Diagnosis of Neoplasms
  164. Microscopic thymoma and myasthenia gravis.