PROFFERED PAPERS Tuesday, March 10   —  8:00 AM   —  CC 306 Click on the blue numbers in parentheses to display abstracts. Click the button next to any title to add to Itinerary Planner... Section G1 - PATHOBIOLOGY Chaired by: Stephen Peiper and Massimo Loda Time Title and Authors Itinerary Planner 8:00 Cancer-Promoting and Initiating Stem Cells Can Be Derived from Ectopic Locations in Breast Cancer (1529) SH Barsky, Y Xiao, Y Ye, K Yearsley - The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH Add 8:15 Blocking Lipocalin 2 Function Impairs Mammary Tumor Formation and Lung Metastases (1533) T Ding, X Leng, H Lin, F Lin, B Zen, WF Symmans, K Yan, L Pusztai, RB Arlinghaus, Y Wu - University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Add 8:30 NADPH Oxidase NOX5-S Mediates Acid-Induced Increase in H2O2 Production and Cell Proliferation in Barrett's Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Cells (1537) J Hong, J Behar, M Resnick, LJ Wang, RA DeLellis, J Wands, W Cao - Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI Add 8:45 Effect of DNA Hypomethylation on Lung Carcinogenesis (1535) S Gokhale, E Steine, J Dausman, R Jaenisch - Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University Medical Center and Whitehead Institute, Providence/Boston, RI/MA; Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA Add 9:00 Differential Tissue Expression of Androgen and Estrogen Related Proteins in Normal Weight and Obese Prostate Cancer Patients (1543) DJ Luthringer, E Nepomuceno, R Vollmer, J Burchette, SJ Freedland, M Gross - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA, CA; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, LA, CA; Pathology and Surgery; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Add 9:15 Is There a Clinical or Diagnostic Utility for BRAF V600E Mutation in Thyroid Lesions? (1531) C Deng, YL Liu, J Knezetic, Z Gatalica - Creighton University, Omaha, NE; Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA Add 9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS AND POSTER SESSION III