Breast Cancer (Therapy)
Patients Might be Candidates for Peptide Immunotherapy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 11th, 1999
M. Kawamoto and colleagues from the Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan, investigated in breast cancers the expression of the SART-1 gene encoding tumor rejection antigens ("Expression of the SART-1 Tumor Rejection Antigen in Breast Cancer," International Journal of Cancer, January 5, 1999;80(1):64-67).
"SART-I mRNA was expressed in all of the samples tested," wrote Kawamoto et al. "The SART-I-800 antigen was detectable in 20 of 50 (40 percent) breast cancer tissues and all breast cancer cell lines tested, but not in...
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