PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  8:00 AM   —  Cotillion North


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Section D - BREAST PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Daniel Visscher and Maria Merino



8:00 Epithelial Cells in Sentinel Lymph Nodes (SLNs) Associated with Breast Massage Prior to SLN Biopsy: A Mode of Benign Mechanical Transport (111)
NM Diaz, V Vrcel, MD Ebert, JD Clark, N Stowell, A Sharma, JW Jakub, AB Cantor, BA Centeno, CE Cox
Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL; Lakeland Regional Cancer Center, Lakeland, FL
8:15 Isolated Tumor Cells in the Sentinel Node and Risk of Axillary Non-Sentinel Node Involvement in Patients with Invasive Breast Carcinomas (169)
MC Mathieu, V Suciu, JR Garbay, R Rouzier, J Lumbroso, JP Travagli
Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France
8:30 Patients with Multiple Ipsilateral Breast Carcinomas Should Be Staged According to the Aggregate Diameter of Tumors, Not the Tumor with Largest Diameter (147)
RL Kessinger, DJ Dabbs, D Landsittel, V Vogel, R Johnson
Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMCHS, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
8:45 Estrogen Receptor-b in Breast Cancer: Its Association with Other Hormone Receptors and Prognostic Factors (100)
Y Choi, M Pinto
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
9:00 Effect of Menstrual Cycle on Expression of Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Breast Epithelium. (87)
R Arora, S Badve
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
9:15 Estrogen Receptor Status as a Predictor of the Effectiveness of Tamoxifen in DCIS: Findings from Nsabp Protocol B-24 (80)
DC Allred, JL Bryant, S Land, S Paik, ED Fisher, T Julian, R Margolese, R Smith, EP Mamounas, CK Osborne, B Fisher, N Wolmark
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, Pittsburgh, PA
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Estrogen Receptor Expression in Epithelial Hyperplasia without Atypia and Breast Cancer Risk: A Nested Case Control-Study (117)
H Gobbi, WD Dupont, FF Parl, DL Page
Federal University of Ninal Gerais, Brazil; Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
11:15 Immunohistochemical Detection of Estrogen Receptor in Breast Cancer: A Laboratory Quality Improvement Study (109)
L Diaz, A Sahin, N Sneige
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL; UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
11:30 Minimum Formalin Fixation Time of Invasive Breast Carcinoma Specimens for Reliable Estrogen Receptor Immunohistochemistry Stain Results (135)
F Hastah, M Ferkowicz, E Odish, A Soman, NS Goldstein
William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
11:45 Solid Variant of Cribriform Carcinoma: A Study of 24 Cases (193)
ME Sanders, DL Page, JF Simpson, ME Edgerton, RA Jensen
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN