Breast Cancer

Research from L. Dececco and colleagues has provided new data on breast cancer

Published in Blood Weekly, January 28th, 2010

According to recent research from Milan, Italy, "Gene expression profiling is moving from the research setting to the practical clinical use. Gene signatures able to correctly identify high risk breast cancer patients as well as to predict response to treatment are currently under intense investigation."

"While technical issues dealing with RNA preparation, choice of array platforms, statistical analytical tools are taken into account, the tissue collection process is seldom considered. The time elapsed between surgical tissue removal and freezing of samples for biological characterizations is rarely well defined and/or recorded even for recently stored samples, despite...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-01-28)

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