1. President’s speech: Innovations and research progress of the department of breast surgery, cancer institute hospital, Tokyo, Japan

   • Fujio Kasumi

   Announcement Pages: 326 - 330

2. The Milan experience in surgical strategies for early breast cancer

   • Bruno Salvadori

   Announcement Pages: 331 - 335

3. Breast conservation from the standpoint of a pathologist: Diagnostic issues of stereotactic needle core biopsy

   • Paul Peter Rosen

   Announcement Pages: 336 - 338

4. What is the best approach for breast conserving therapy?

   • Tomohiko Okawa
   • Goi Sakamoto

   Announcement Pages: 339 - 339

5. Current insights in the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, progress, and metastasis of breast cancer

   • Shunzo Kobayashi
   • Tomoo Tajima

   Announcement Pages: 340 - 343

6. Chemoendocrine therapy: Basic science and clinical aspects

   • Yuichi lino
   • Masakazu Toi

   Announcement Pages: 344 - 346

7. Current status and future perspectives on tamoxifen in breast cancer treatment

   • Shinzaburo Noguchi

   Announcement Pages: 347 - 348

8. Inflammatory cancer of the breast: Present situation and future prospect

   • Hiroki Koyama

   Announcement Pages: 349 - 350

9. Risk Factors for breast cancer among japanese women: A case-control study in Ibaraki, Japan

   • Masaru Ueji
   • Ei Ueno
   • Katsumi Kano

   Original Article Pages: 351 - 358

10. Frequencies of estrogen receptor mRNAs splice variants in various human mammary tissues

    • Masao Hori
    • Motonobu Katano
    • Masayuki Itabashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 365

11. Induction of tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes from regional lymph node lymphocytes of human breast cancer

    • Ryozo Eifuku
    • Ichiro Yoshino
    • Kosei Yasumoto

    Original Article Pages: 367 - 373

12. Immunohistochemical image analysis of estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancer

    • Yoshihide Furukawa
    • Izo Kimijima
    • Rikiya Abe

    Original Article Pages: 375 - 380

13. Dye-guided sentinel lymphadenectomy in clinically node-negative and node-positive breast cancer patients

    • Masakuni Noguchi
    • Koichiro Tsugawa
    • Akitaka Nonomura

    Original Article Pages: 381 - 387

14. Efficacy and Significance of Sentinel Lymph Node Identification with Technetium-99m-labeled Tin Colloids for Breast Cancer

    • Kazuhiko Sato
    • Hoshio Hiraide
    • Hidetaka Mochizuki

    Original Article Pages: 389 - 393

15. Radiation complications following breast conserving therapy

    • Hitoshi Ikushima
    • Yoshihiro Takegawa
    • Hiromu Nishitani

    Original Article Pages: 395 - 400

16. Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) for Mammography: Preliminary Results

    • Hiroshi Nakahara
    • Kiyoshi Namba
    • Shozo Tamura

    Original Article Pages: 401 - 405

17. A case of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in the skin over the breast of a young woman

    • Hisaki Fukushima
    • Kazuharu Suda
    • Tomoyuki Goya

    Report Pages: 407 - 409

18. Bilateral synchronous spindle cell, apocrine and scirrhous carcinoma breast cancer in a case or malignant lymphoma

    • Ken-ichi Ito
    • Makoto Kurd
    • Jun Amano

    Case Report Pages: 411 - 416