Breast Cancer

Research from S. Haas and co-researchers yields new findings on breast cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 1st, 2008

According to recent research from Bonn, Germany, "The urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAT-1) are involved in tumor invasion and metastasis as well as wound healing and inflammation. We investigated the impact of tissue injury by preoperative sampling on the level of uPA/PAI-1 in paraffin tissue of 55 breast cancer cases by immunohistochemistry."

"The tumor area surrounding the biopsy channel was compared with distant intact tumor tissue. uPA and PAI-1 were constantly expressed by the tumor cells. Fibroblastic expression was higher in the tumor area surrounding the biopsy channel than in intact tissue with 47 vs 29...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-01)

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