1. Is it necessary to perform prospective randomized studies before sentinel node biopsy can replace routine axillary dissection?

   • Masakuni Noguchi

   Review Article Pages: 179 - 187

2. Role of ultrasonography in treatment selection

   • Mitsuhiro Kubota
   • Kouichi Inoue
   • Teruji Sugita

   Review Article Pages: 188 - 197

3. The role of computed tomography in the selection of breast cancer treatment

   • Sadako Akashi-Tanaka
   • Takashi Fukutomi
   • Kunihisa Miyakawa

   Review Article Pages: 198 - 203

4. Measuring quality of life in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review of reliable and valid instruments available in japan

   • Takahiro Okamoto
   • Kojiro Shimozuma
   • Takanori Watanabe

   Original Article Pages: 204 - 213

5. Integrinβ1-mediated invasion of human breast cancer cells: anex vivo assay for invasiveness

   • M. G. Berry
   • Anthony W. Goode
   • Robert Carpenter

   Original Article Pages: 214 - 219

6. Elevated serum ca15-3 levels correlate with positive estrogen receptor and initial favorable outcome in patients who died from recurrent breast cancer

   • Reiki Nishimura
   • Kazuharu Nagao
   • Hiroya Yamashita

   Original Article Pages: 220 - 227

7. Relationship between mammographic density and the risk of breast cancer in japanese women: a case-control study

   • Yasuko Nagao
   • Yoshihiro Kawaguchi
   • Yoshitomo Kashiki

   Original Article Pages: 228 - 233

8. Evaluation of HER-2 status in breast carcinoma by fluorescencein situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry

   • Hiroyuki Ogura
   • Futoshi Akiyama
   • Goi Sakamoto

   Original Article Pages: 234 - 240

9. Clinicopathological significance of tissue homeostasis in Indian breast cancer

   • A. Lakshmi Kesari
   • Divya Chandrasekhar S.
   • M. Radhakrishna Pillai

   Original Article Pages: 241 - 248

10. Clinicopathological study of Japanese male breast carcinoma

    • Hideya Takeuchi
    • Chiaki Shirasaka
    • Hiroaki Ueo

    Original Article Pages: 249 - 253

11. Dye-Guided Sentinel Node Biopsy Revisited; Validation and Observational Study from a Single Institute

    • Tomohiko Aihara
    • Yuichi Takatsuka

    Original Article Pages: 254 - 259

12. Combined antitumor activity of 7-Hydroxystaurosporine (UCN-01) and Tamoxifen against human breast carcinomain Vitro andin Vivo

    • Junichi Koh
    • Tetsuro Kubota
    • Masaki Kitajima

    Original Article Pages: 260 - 267

13. Radiotherapy with concurrent docetaxel for advanced and recurrent breast cancer

    • Kumiko Karasawa
    • Kuniaki Katsui
    • Isamu Takahashi

    Original Article Pages: 268 - 274

14. Skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate reconstruction with a deep inferior epigastric perforator flap

    • Kenji Yano
    • Ko Hosokawa
    • Shinzaburo Noguchi

    Original Article Pages: 275 - 280

15. Magnetic resonance axillography for preoperative diagnosis of the axillopectoral muscle (langer’s axillary arch): a case report

    • Takaomi Suzuma
    • Takeo Sakurai
    • Yoshitaka Okamura

    Case Report Pages: 281 - 283

16. A case of breast cancer metastasizing to cervix after resection of pancreatic metastasis

    • Akihiro Ogino
    • Tadashi Nomizu
    • Takao Yoshida

    Case Report Pages: 284 - 288