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Cancer Genetics
Metastases share similar genetic profile to primary breast cancer tumor
April 6th, 2004
Work by scientists in The Netherlands contradicts the notion that breast cancer metastases behave differently than their primary tumors. Doctoral student Britta Weigelt told the meeting of the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference on March 18, 2004, that, contrary to what had been thought previously, her study found any primary breast cancer cell was capable of producing secondary cancer cells, which then spread to other parts of the body. These secondary cancer cells had a strikingly similar genetic make-up to their parent cells and behaved in a similar way. Therefore, metastases were likely to have the same response to a particular treatment as their primary...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-04-06)
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