POSTER SESSION I
Monday, March 24, 2003   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
Exhibit Hall A - C


BREAST PATHOLOGY



20 Prediction of Additional Axillary Metastasis of Breast Cancer Following Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery (97)
C Changsri, S Prakash, L Sandweiss, S Bose
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
21 Correlation of HER-2/neu Immunostaining Using Computerized Image Analysis with HER-2 Gene Amplification by FISH in Breast Cancer (101)
A Ciampa, D Baiyee, G Pihan, B Xu, M Wertheimer, K Edmiston, A Khan
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
22 Gastrointestinal Metastases of Carcinoma of the Breast (102)
M Cohn, L Middleton, V Valero, A Sahin
UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
23 Evaluation of Angiogenesis in Male Breast Cancer (115)
EM Frangou, J Lawson, R Kanthan
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
24 Immunohistochemical Expression of Prostate Specific Antigen in Normal Breast Tissue and Breast Neoplasms (119)
S Gokhale, C Albarracin, B Arun, L Middleton, A Sahin
U.T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
25 Can nm23 and Stromelysin-3 Expression Predict the Invasive Potential of Extensive Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ? (128)
F Gundogan, S George, J Erban, S Sharifi
Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA; Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
26 ki-67 and Cyclin-D1 Immunostaining Aids in Stratifying Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia Diagnosed on Breast Core Biopsy (129)
O Hameed, H Mizrachi, V Ghali, P Tartter
St. Luke's-Rossevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY; Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
27 Correlation of Circulating Tumor Cells as Detected by RT-PCR with Pathologic Features of Breast Tumors (143)
I Jovanovic, R Woodrick, R Goldschmidt, KL Kaul
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare/Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
28 Expression Level of Survivin Messenger RNA Correlates with Grade of Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ (DCIS) (148)
E Khanafshar, RC-K Chan, A Hever, WS Nichols, S Bose
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
29 Focal Adhesion Kinase Expression in Invasive Breast Carcinoma (157)
AL Lark, CA Livasy, RC Millikan, LG Dressler, DW Cowan, J Tse, DG Little, WG Cance
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
30 Expression of Maspin Protein in Breast Carcinoma and Correlation with Clinical Outcome (171)
P Mecca, J Xiong, CE Sheehan, AB Boguniewicz, JS Ross
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
31 Ductal Versus Lobular Breast Carcinoma: The Influence of Histologic Subtype on Ultrasound Measurement (183)
BS Pritt, T Ashikaga, DL Weaver
Fletcher Allen Health Care; University of Vermont College of Medicine; Vermont Cancer Center, Burlington, VT
32 Methylation Profiles To Differentiate Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions in Surgical and Cytological Specimens (184)
RT Pu, LE Laitala, DP Clark
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
33 Pleomorphic Lobular Carcinoma In-Situ Versus Intermediate Grade Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ: A Comparative Analysis of Loss of Heterozygosity at BRCA1/17q/21 (187)
HS Qureshi, U Raju, M Salama, G Divine, N Tiwari, MJ Worsham
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
34 Significant Loss of PTEN Protein Expression in Pure Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: An Early Event in Breast Carcinogenesis (189)
A Rawal, RA Goldschmidt
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, IL
35 Radiofrequency Ablation in Early Breast Cancer: Qualitative and Quantitative Pathologic Evaluation (190)
E Resetkova, B Fornage, E Singletary, E Mirza, M Ross, N Sneige
University of Texas M.D. Anderson, Houston, TX
36 Cyclin D1 and p27 Expression Correlates with Response to Trastuzumab Therapy in Patients with HER-2-Overexpressing Metastatic Breast Cancer (222)
Q Zhai, F Esteva, P Lee, Q Yang, C Qi, A Sahin
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
37 A Subset of Morphologically Identifiable Mammary Myoepithelial Cells Lacks Expression of Corresponding Phenotypic Markers (223)
RR Zhang, Y-G Man, BL Strauss, RL Vang, JS Saenger, R Barner, DT Wheeler, CY Liang
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC