1. President’s address: Duct stem cells and the tidal evocation of estrogen — as the background of epidemiological breast cancer data

   • Shunzo Kobayashi

   EditorialNotes Pages: 270 - 275

2. Current role of endocrine therapy in the management of breast cancer

   • John F. R. Robertson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 276 - 281

3. Sentinel lymph node dissection in early stage breast cancer

   • Kelly K. Hunt
   • Merrick I. Ross

   OriginalPaper Pages: 282 - 288

4. 3D imaging of intraductal spread of breast cancer and its clinical application for navigation surgery

   • Yasuhiro Tamaki
   • Sadako Akashi-Tanaka
   • Nariaki Matsuura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 295

5. In situ production of estrogens in human breast carcinoma

   • Takashi Suzuki
   • Takuya Moriya
   • Hironobu Sasano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 296 - 302

6. Clinical impact of assay of estrogen receptor βcx in breast cancer

   • Shigehira Saji
   • Yoko Omoto
   • Masakazu Toi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 307

7. A study of estrogen signaling using DNA microarray in human breast cancer

   • Yoko Omoto
   • Shin-ichi Hayashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 308 - 311

8. The role of stat5 in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer

   • Hiroko Yamashita
   • Hirotaka Iwase

   OriginalPaper Pages: 312 - 318

9. Will subareolar injection be a standard technique for sentinel lymph node biopsy?

   • Kazuya Yoshida
   • Naohito Yamamoto
   • Masaru Miyazaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 322

10. Combination of subareolar blue dye and peritumoral RI for sentinel lymph node biopsy

    • Nobuyuki Tsunoda
    • Hiroji Iwata
    • Shigeto Miura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 328

11. Relevance and practicability of internal mammary sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer

    • Masakuni Noguchi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 329 - 336

12. Sentinel node biopsy to avoid axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer

    • Kazuyoshi Motomura
    • Yoshifumi Komoike
    • Hiroki Koyama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 343

13. Sentinel lymph node biopsy without axillary dissection after an intraoperative negative histological investigation in 358 invasive breast cancer cases

    • Hiroyuki Takei
    • Kimito Suemasu
    • Yasuhiro Higashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 344 - 348

14. Breast pathology slide seminar linked to poster presentations: A new idea to make case presentations in medical conferences more interactive

    • Shu Ichihara
    • Tetsunari Oyama
    • Shunzo Kobayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 351