Current Issue December 2011, Vol. 20, No. 6

Issue Highlights

  • Trastuzumab combined to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    December 2011 (Vol. 20 | No. 6 | Pages 485-490)

    Antonis Valachis, Davide Mauri, Nikolaos P. Polyzos, Grigoris Chlouverakis, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Vassilios Georgoulias

  • FDG-PET/CT in the staging of local/regional metastases in breast cancer
    December 2011 (Vol. 20 | No. 6 | Pages 491-494)

    Ian J. Robertson, Fiona Hand, Malcolm R. Kell

  • Clustered microcalcifications of intermediate concern detected on digital mammography: Ultrasound assessment
    December 2011 (Vol. 20 | No. 6 | Pages 495-500)

    Pao-Chu Yu, Yi-Wei Lee, Fong-Fu Chou, Shih-Chung Wu, Chung-Cheng Huang, Shu-Hang Ng, Shyr-Ming Sheen-Chen, Sheung-Fat Ko

  • Erratum to ‘Goodwin PJ, Stambolic V. Obesity and insulin resistance in breast cancer – chemotherapy strategies with a focus on metformin. The Breast, 2011: 20; S31–S35.’
    27 January 2012

  • Erratum to ‘Sheri A, Dowsett M, Predicting response to cytotoxic drugs – The endocrine part of the story. The Breast, 2011: 20; S28 – S30.’
    27 January 2012

    Amna Sheri, Mitch Dowsett

  • The differences in the histological types of breast cancer and the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: The relationship between the outcome and the clinicopathological characteristics
    25 January 2012

    Tomoya Nagao, Takayuki Kinoshita, Takashi Hojo, Hitoshi Tsuda, Kenji Tamura, Yasuhiro Fujiwara

  • Breast surgeons performing immediate breast reconstruction with implants – Assessment of resource-use and patient-reported outcome measures
    25 January 2012

    S. Robertson, Y. Wengström, C. Eriksen, K. Sandelin

  • Epirubicin: Is it like doxorubicin in breast cancer? A clinical review
    19 January 2012

    Mustafa Khasraw, Richard Bell, Chau Dang

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Global Breast Supplement

We are pleased to announce the publication of Global Breast Health Care: Optimizing delivery in low and middle-resource countries, a supplement of consensus statements and special reports to The Breast, sponsored by the Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI). This landmark breast health care publication reveals a multitude of barriers that keep women of developing nations from being screened and treated for breast cancer – but offers tools to help countries improve their breast care programs.

The supplement contains three consensus statements and 11 research papers that were based on projects and proposals presented in June 2010 at the Breast Health Global Initiative Global Summit on International Breast Health in Chicago. The summit brought together more than 150 experts from 43 countries. An executive summary of the consensus statements has been published in the April 1 issue of The Lancet Oncology.

The supplement is now available online for all subscribers of The Breast to read.