Introduction and background / Gabriel N. Hortobagyi -- Molecular diagnostic techniques in breast cancer / Jeffrey S. Ross -- Clinical and molecular epidemiology of breast cancer / Abenaa Brewster and Melissa Bondy -- Predisposition for breast cancer / Marion Kiechle and Alfons Meindl -- Screening and early detection, serum and nipple aspirates, routine and molecular methods, including reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, and proteomics / Douglas P. Malinowski -- Genomic and molecular classification of breast cancer / Christos Sotiriou ... [et al.] -- Cytology: clinical sample procurement and on-slide technologies / W. Fraser Symmans --

Histopathology of breast cancer: correlation with molecular markers / W. Fraser Symmans -- Sentinel lymph node dissection and micrometastasis detection in bone marrow and lymph nodes / Volkmar Müller, Sabine Kasimir-Bauer, and Klaus Pantel -- Prognostic and predictive factors overview / Jeffrey S. Ross and Nadia Harbeck -- Breast cancer cytogenetics, chromosomal abnormalities, and comparative genomic hybridization / Mark Watson and Lynn Cawkwell -- DNA ploidy and S phase analysis in breast cancer / Jeffrey S. Ross ... [et al.] -- Cell proliferation markers and cell cycle regulators in breast cancer / Jeffrey S. Ross and Carlos Cordon-Cardo -- Targeted therapy for cancer: integrating diagnostics and therapeutics / Jeffrey S. Ross --

Hormone receptors and hormonal-based therapy for breast cancer / Jeffrey S. Ross and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi -- HER-2/neu gene and protein in breast cancer / Fatima Cardoso ... [et al.] -- Epidermal growth factor receptor and other growth factors and receptors / Joan Albanell and Jeffrey S. Ross -- Tumor-associated proteolytic factors: markers for tumor invasion and metastasis / Nadia Harbeck ... [et al.] -- Breast cancer and angiogenesis / Manfred Schmitt, Nadia Harbeck, and Jeffrey S. Ross -- Cell adhesion markers / H. Höfler and B. Luber -- Programmed cell death and breast cancer / Xiao-Ming Yin and Gerald P. Linette -- Oncogenes / Andre M. Oliveira and Jonathan A. Fletcher -- P53 and tumor suppressor genes in breast cancer / Andre M. Oliveira, Jeffrey S. Ross, and Jonathan A. Fletcher -- The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and breast cancer / Robert Z. Orlowski --

DNA repair and the maintenance of genomic stability in breast cancer / Jennifer E. Quinn, Richard D. Kennedy, and D. Paul Harkin -- Biologic and clinical significance of DNA gene methylation and epigenetics events in breast cancer / Manel Esteller and Esteban Ballestar -- DNA methylation in breast cancer as diagnostic markers and targets for cancer therapy / Sabine Maier ... [et al.] -- Pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, and predicting response to therapy / Lajos Pusztai ... [et al.] -- Mammography and molecular imaging / Hernan I. Vargas, M. Perla Vargas, and Iraj Khalkhali -- Translation of molecular markers to clinical practice / Nadia Harbeck, Christoph Thomssen, and Ronald E. Kates -- Regulatory aspects and implications of molecular testing in the United States / Robert Pietrusko.