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American Association for Cancer Research
Test helps identify patients with breast cancer who will likely benefit from chemotherapy
October 13th, 2006
A test that measures the amounts of two members of the same protein family - one of which appears to act as an oncogene, and the other as a tumor suppressor - helps identify patients with breast cancer who will likely benefit from chemotherapy and those who won't, according to researchers. The test, known as OncoPlan, is already commercially available, and studies have shown that it can predict the aggressiveness of the patient's tumor and the relative risk of disease recurrence following surgery in breast, colon and gastric cancers. Now, researchers in the U.S. and Canada have studied whether it also can help identify breast cancer patients who would benefit most from...
Source: Medicine & Law Weekly (2006-10-13)
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