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Breast Cancer
Data on breast cancer described by researchers at Linkoping University
October 14th, 2008
"Cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage are important for tumour cell migration, invasion and metastasis. Fusion between macrophages and cancer cells in animal models in vitro and in vivo causes hybrids with increased metastatic potential," investigators in Sweden report. "Primary breast cancer cells were characterized for macrophage antigens to test if phenotypic resemblance to macrophages is related to early distant recurrence. Immunostaining for CD163, MAC387 and CD68 was performed in a breast cancer tissue micro array from 127 patients consequently followed up for a median of 13 years. Tumour-associated macrophages expressed all 3 antigens. The breast cancers...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-10-14)
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