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Adenocarcinoma
New adenocarcinoma findings from University of Helsinki described
May 19th, 2009
According to recent research from Helsinki, Finland, "Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a highly aggressive tumour with poor prognosis and limited response to therapy. New markers for the prediction of prognosis in MM and in pulmonary adenocarcinoma of the pleura are valuable." "GATA-6 belongs to a six member zinc finger transcription factor family named after their recognition motif W-GATA-R. To clarify the distribution and possible function of GATA-6 transcription factor in MM and in pleural metastasis of lung adenocarcinomas. 63 pleural MM and 36 pleural metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinomas were studied for GATA-6 expression by immunohistochemistry using tissue...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-05-19)
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