title: Department of Defense Era of Hope meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA, 25-28 September 2002.
abstract: The Era of Hope meeting addressed with a multidisciplinary approach the most critical issues in breast carcinogenesis. The issues that we summarize here include: a) the use of rodent models for the study of mammary gland development and breast tumorigenesis; b) the effects of stroma on mammary epithelial differentiation and malignant transformation; c) a further characterization of the interactions between steroid and growth factor receptors; d) the improvement of technologies for early detection of breast tumors and the establishment of their progression; and e) the development of vaccines as potential new therapies against specific tumor markers.
authors.affiliation: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. vnovaro@lbl.gov
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Novaro
authors.forename: Jamie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bascom
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Joni D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Mott
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004260:DNA Repair; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D019496:Cancer Vaccines