1. Breast cancer investigations of the special program of research excellence (SPORE) of the Vincent T. Lombardi cancer research center of Georgetown University

   Introduction Pages: iii - iv

2. Growth factor targeted and conventional therapy of breast cancer

   • Anton Wellstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 152

3. Transfected MCF-7 cells as a model for breast cancer progression

   • F. G. Kern
   • S. W. McLeskey
   • R. B. Dickson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 165

4. Matrix-degrading proteases in hormone-dependent breast cancer

   • Robert B. Dickson
   • Yuenian Eric Shi
   • Michael D. Johnson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 173

5. Modulation of breast cancer progression and differentiation by thegp30/neregulin

   • A. Staebler
   • C. Sommers
   • R. Lupu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 182

6. Regulation of estrogen receptor expression

   • Mary Beth Martin
   • Miguel Saceda
   • Marco M. Gottardis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 189

7. Vitamin D receptors in breast cancer cells

   • Robert R. Buras
   • Lisa M. Schumaker
   • Stephen R. T. Evans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 202

8. Breast carcinoma: a collective disorder

   • Stephen Byers
   • Morag Park
   • Stephen Seslar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 215

9. Membrane proteases as potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets for breast malignancy

   • Wen-Tien Chen
   • Chong-Chou Lee
   • Susette C. Mueller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 226

10. Mechanisms of EGF receptor regulation in breast cancer cells

    • Susan A. Chrysogelos
    • Ronit I. Yarden
    • Jane M. Murphy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 236

11. Hormonal carcinogenesis in breast cancer: cellular and molecular studies of malignant progression

    • Robert Clarke
    • Todd Skaar
    • Nils Brunner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 248

12. Insulin-like growth factor mediated stromal-epithelial interactions in human breast cancer

    • Matthew J. C. Ellis
    • Christian Singer
    • Kevin J. Cullen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 261

13. Transcriptional regulation of multidrug resistance in breast cancer

    • Robert I. Glazer
    • Christian Rohlff

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 271

14. Perinatal factors increase breast cancer risk

    • Leena Hilakivi-Clarke
    • Robert Clarke
    • Marc E. Lippman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 284

15. Metabolism of breast cancer cells as revealed by non-invasive magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies

    • Ofer Kaplan
    • Jack S. Cohen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 299

16. Antiestrogen resistance in ER positive breast cancer cells

    • Soonmyoung Paik
    • Dan Paul Hartmann
    • Marc E. Lippman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 307

17. The potential role of the heparin-binding growth factor pleiotrophin in breast cancer

    • Anna Tate Riegel
    • Anton Wellstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 314

18. Psycho-oncology and breast cancer: a paradigm for research and intervention

    • Julia H. Rowland

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 324

19. Differentiation state and invasiveness of human breast cancer cell lines

    • Connie L. Sommers
    • Stephen W. Byers
    • Edward P. Gelmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 335

20. Sphingosine-1-phosphate, a novel second messenger involved in cell growth regulation and signal transduction, affects growth and invasiveness of human breast cancer cells

    • S. Spiegel
    • A. Olivera
    • A. Berger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 348

21. Breast cancer gene therapy: transgenic immunotherapy

    • Ning Su
    • John O. Ojeifo
    • James A. Zwiebel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 356

22. Collagen induced MMP-2 activation in human breast cancer

    • Erik W. Thompson
    • Ming Yu
    • Hala Azzam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 370

23. Clinical breast cancer research core

    • Sandra M. Swain
    • Susan Flamm Honig
    • Elizabeth Egan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 375

24. Research integration

    • Kathy Russell
    • Stephen Moore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 380