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Breast Cancer
Investigators at National Institutes of Health have published new data on breast cancer
January 15th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "The objective of this study was to evaluate the coexpression patterns of hormonal markers in breast cancer tissue and their relationship with pathologic characteristics and epidemiologic risk factors. We evaluated the expression of 17 markers by immunohistochemistry in 842 invasive breast carcinomas collected in a population-based case-control study conducted in Poland." "Based on marker correlations, factor analysis identified four major coexpression patterns (factors): ''nuclear receptor factor'' [estrogen receptor (ER)-alpha, progesterone receptor, androgen receptor, cyclin D1, and aromatase], ''estrogen...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-01-15)
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