Hypothesis: Induced angiogenesis after surgery in premenopausal node-positive breast cancer patients is a major underlying reason why adjuvant chemotherapy works particularly well for those patients.

Premenopausal status accelerates relapse in node positive breast cancer: hypothesis links angiogenesis, screening controversy.

Overview of resistance to systemic therapy in patients with breast cancer.

Prognostic importance of tumor angiogenesis in breast carcinoma with adjuvant chemotherapy.

T1-T2 breast cancer with four or more positive axillary lymph nodes: adjuvant locoregional radiotherapy with high-dose or standard-dose chemotherapy. Results of an observational study.

Addition of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) may further increase chemosensitive state in premenopausal node-positive breast cancer patients with induced angiogenesis after surgery.

Randomized trial of adjuvant ovarian suppression in 926 premenopausal patients with early breast cancer treated with adjuvant chemotherapy.

Enhanced surgery-induced angiogenesis among premenopausal women might partially explain excess breast cancer mortality of blacks compared to whites: an hypothesis.

Risk factors for locoregional recurrence among breast cancer patients: results from International Breast Cancer Study Group Trials I through VII.

Does surgery induce angiogenesis in breast cancer? Indirect evidence from relapse pattern and mammography paradox.

Bone marrow micrometastases and adjuvant treatment of breast cancer.

Postoperative loco-regional radiation therapy for breast cancer patients with four or more involved lymph nodes or extracapsular extension.

Locoregional radiation therapy in patients with high-risk breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy: 20-year results of the British Columbia randomized trial.

Prognostic significance of bcl-2 expression in stage III breast cancer patients who had received doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel as adjuvant chemotherapy.

American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor-node-metastasis stage after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and breast cancer outcome.

[Clinical analysis of resectable breast cancer: a report of 6 263 cases]

Lymphovascular invasion is associated with reduced locoregional control and survival in women with node-negative breast cancer treated with mastectomy and systemic therapy.

Treatment results and prognostic factors of early breast cancer treated with a breast conserving operation and radiotherapy.

Menopausal status dependence of the timing of breast cancer recurrence after surgical removal of the primary tumour.

Changes in management techniques and patterns of disease recurrence over time in patients with breast carcinoma treated with breast-conserving therapy at a single institution.