Tumor size and proliferative marker geminin rather than Ki67 expression levels significantly associated with maximum uptake of ¹⁸F-deoxyglucose levels on positron emission tomography for breast cancers

• Arisa Nishimukai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Natsuko Inoue,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Ayako Kira,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Masashi Takeda,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yao Municipal Hospital, Yao City, Osaka, Japan

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• Koji Morimoto,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of the Science of Living, Osaka Women’s Junior College, Fujiidera City, Osaka, Japan, Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan

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• Kazuhiro Araki,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Kazuhiro Kitajima,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Takahiro Watanabe,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Seiichi Hirota,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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• Toyomasa Katagiri,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Genome Medicine, Institute for Genome Research, Tokushima University, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, Japan

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• Shoji Nakamori,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan

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• Kouhei Akazawa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Niigata University Medical & Dental Hospital, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan

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• Yasuo Miyoshi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ymiyoshi@hyo-med.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Breast and Endocrine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan

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