1. Message from the editor-in-chief

   • Masahiro Hiraoka

   Editorial 08 December 2007 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Online First publication

   • Springer

   Announcement 22 December 2007 Pages: 2 - 2

3. Results of questionnaire survey on breast cancer surgery in Japan 2004–2006

   • Hiroshi Sonoo
   • Shinzaburo Noguchi
   • On behalf of the Academic Committee of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society

   Special Article 08 December 2007 Pages: 3 - 4

   

4. Histopathological criteria for assessment of therapeutic response in breast cancer (2007 version)

   • Masafumi Kurosumi
   • Sadako Akashi-Tanaka
   • (Committee for Production of Histopathological Criteria for Assessment of Therapeutic Response of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society)

   Special Article 29 November 2007 Pages: 5 - 7

   

5. To overcome breast cancer with all of our knowledge

   • Tadashi Ikeda

   Conference Paper 20 December 2007 Pages: 8 - 9

6. Chemoprevention of breast cancer

   • Jack Cuzick

   Conference Paper 20 December 2007 Pages: 10 - 16

   

7. Aromatase inhibitors: from bench to bedside and back

   • Jürgen Geisler

   Conference Paper 29 November 2007 Pages: 17 - 26

   

8. Breakthrough for neoadjuvant chemotherapy

   • Gunter von Minckwitz

   Conference Paper 29 November 2007 Pages: 27 - 30

   

9. Heterogeneity of breast cancer and implications of adjuvant chemotherapy

   • A. Rab Razzak
   • Nancy U. Lin
   • Eric P. Winer

   Conference Paper 05 December 2007 Pages: 31 - 34

10. Considerations in treatment choice for metastatic breast cancer

    • Stephen E. Jones

    Conference Paper 29 November 2007 Pages: 35 - 39

11. Concepts and techniques of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) for breast cancer

    • Roland Reitsamer
    • Felix Sedlmayer
    • Florentia Peintinger

    Conference Paper 29 November 2007 Pages: 40 - 46

12. Molecular target therapy: basics and clinical application

    • Shinzaburo Noguchi
    • Masakazu Toi

    Conference Paper 14 December 2007 Pages: 47 - 48

13. Development of new targeted therapies for breast cancer

    • Danielle M. Doyle
    • Kathy D. Miller

    Conference Paper 29 November 2007 Pages: 49 - 56

14. Trastuzumab monotherapy versus combination therapy for treating recurrent breast cancer: time to progression and survival

    • Reiki Nishimura
    • Yasuhiro Okumura
    • Nobuyuki Arima

    Conference Paper 11 December 2007 Pages: 57 - 64

    

15. Development of HER2-antagonistic peptides as novel anti-breast cancer drugs by in silico methods

    • Hiroo Nakajima
    • Naruhiko Mizuta
    • Sei-ichi Tanuma

    Conference Paper 05 December 2007 Pages: 65 - 72

    

16. Preclinical studies of molecular-targeting diagnostic and therapeutic strategies against breast cancer

    • Teruhiko Fujii
    • Goro Yokoyama
    • Michihiko Kuwano

    Conference Paper 29 November 2007 Pages: 73 - 78

    

17. New trends in radiation therapy as a component of breast conserving therapy

    • Michihide Mitsumori

    Special Feature 29 November 2007 Pages: 79 - 79

18. Short-course radiotherapy for the whole breast after breast conserving surgery

    • Miwako Nozaki
    • Miho Kawashima

    Special Feature: Review Article 29 November 2007 Pages: 80 - 85

    

19. Whole-breast radiotherapy with shorter fractionation schedules following breast-conserving surgery: short-term morbidity and preliminary outcomes

    • Osamu Fujii
    • Jyunichi Hiratsuka
    • Yoshinari Imajyo

    Special Feature: Original Article 29 November 2007 Pages: 86 - 92

    

20. Patients’ subjective evaluation of early and late sequelae in patients with breast cancer irradiated with short fractionation for breast conservation therapy: comparison with conventional fractionation

    • Taisuke Inomata
    • Isamu Narabayashi
    • Yasuhiro Ogawa

    Special Feature: Original Article 05 December 2007 Pages: 93 - 100

21. Current status of accelerated partial breast irradiation

    • Michihide Mitsumori
    • Masahiro Hiraoka

    Special Feature: Review Article 01 December 2007 Pages: 101 - 107

22. Feasibility of accelerated partial breast irradiation using three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for Japanese women: a theoretical plan using six patients’ CT data

    • Yasuhiro Kosaka
    • Michihide Mitsumori
    • Masahiro Hiraoka

    Special Feature: Original Article 29 November 2007 Pages: 108 - 114