Ask the Experts: Role(s) of androgens in breast cancer biology and treatment. (March 2013) - Sasano, Hironobu
Hironobu Sasano has been involved in the translational research of various human neoplasms for nearly 20 years and has published more than 150 articles, including original, review and case reports, of breast cancer. In particular, his groups have established the details of intracrinology, or intracrine steroid production in the human sex steroid-dependent neoplasm. Sasano is also currently serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cancer Science and Pathology International . He graduated from Tohoku University School of Medicine (Japan) in 1982 and his postgraduate training included a clinical and research fellowship in New York Hospital, The Cornel Medical Center (NY, USA) as a Fulbright Scholar and pathology resident at The George Washington University Medical Center and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Washington, DC, USA).