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Bladder Cancer
New bladder cancer research from R.J. Sylvester and co-researchers described
January 13th, 2009
According to recent research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, "The use of molecular markers and gene expression profiling provides a promising approach for improving the predictive accuracy of current prognostic indices for predicting which patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer will progress to muscle-invasive disease. There are many statistical pitfalls in establishing the benefit of a multigene expression classifier during its development." "First, there are issues related to the identification of the individual genes and the false discovery rate, the instability of the genes identified and their combination into a...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-13)
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