Germline BRCA1 mutations and a basal epithelial phenotype in breast cancer

WD Foulkes, IM Stefansson… - Journal of the …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
A basal epithelial phenotype is found in not more than 15% of all invasive breast cancers.
Microarray studies have shown that this phenotype is associated with breast cancers that …

[PDF][PDF] EZH2 expression is associated with high proliferation rate and aggressive tumor subgroups in cutaneous melanoma and cancers of the endometrium, prostate …

IM Bachmann, OJ Halvorsen, K Collett, IM Stefansson… - J Clin Oncol, 2006 - academia.edu
Purpose EZH2 is a member of the polycomb group of genes and important in cell cycle
regulation. Increased expression of EZH2 has been associated previously with invasive …

The Prognostic Implication of the Basal-Like (Cyclin Ehigh/p27low/p53+/Glomeruloid-Microvascular-Proliferation+) Phenotype of BRCA1-Related Breast Cancer

WD Foulkes, JS Brunet, IM Stefansson, O Straume… - Cancer research, 2004 - AACR
Previous studies have shown that BRCA1-related breast cancers are often high-grade
tumors that do not express estrogen receptors, HER2, p27Kip1, or cyclin D1, but do express …

Drug-sensitive FGFR2 mutations in endometrial carcinoma

A Dutt, HB Salvesen, TH Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Oncogenic activation of tyrosine kinases is a common mechanism of carcinogenesis and,
given the druggable nature of these enzymes, an attractive target for anticancer therapy …

Expression of enhancer of zeste homologue 2 is significantly associated with increased tumor cell proliferation and is a marker of aggressive breast cancer.

K Collett, GE Eide, J Arnes, IM Stefansson, J Eide… - Clinical cancer research …, 2006 - AACR
The polycomb group protein enhancer of zeste homologue 2 (EZH2) has been linked to
invasive properties of aggressive breast cancer. In this report, tissue microarray analysis of …

A basal epithelial phenotype is more frequent in interval breast cancers compared with screen detected tumors

K Collett, IM Stefansson, J Eide, A Braaten… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2005 - AACR
Interval breast cancer reduce the effectiveness of mammography screening programs. We
studied 95 interval cancers, diagnosed during 1996 to 2001 as part of the population-based …

The genomic landscape and evolution of endometrial carcinoma progression and abdominopelvic metastasis

WJ Gibson, EA Hoivik, MK Halle, A Taylor-Weiner… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Recent studies have detailed the genomic landscape of primary endometrial cancers, but
the evolution of these cancers into metastases has not been characterized. We performed …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor necrosis is an important hallmark of aggressive endometrial cancer and associates with hypoxia, angiogenesis and inflammation responses

G Bredholt, M Mannelqvist, IM Stefansson… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aims Tumor necrosis is associated with aggressive features of endometrial cancer and poor
prognosis. Here, we investigated gene expression patterns and potential treatment targets …

Lack of estrogen receptor-α is associated with epithelial–mesenchymal transition and PI3K alterations in endometrial carcinoma

E Wik, MB Ræder, C Krakstad, J Trovik… - Clinical Cancer …, 2013 - AACR
Purpose: We hypothesized that estrogen receptor-α (ER-α) status in endometrial
carcinomas, associated with poor prognosis, is reflected in transcriptional signatures …

[HTML][HTML] Hormone receptor loss in endometrial carcinoma curettage predicts lymph node metastasis and poor outcome in prospective multicentre trial

J Trovik, E Wik, HMJ Werner, C Krakstad… - European journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Preoperative histologic examination of tumour tissue is essential when deciding
if endometrial cancer surgery should include lymph node sampling. We wanted to …