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Breast Cancer

Fibrotic Focus May Be Useful Marker

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 26th, 1999

Fibrotic focus, as a surrogate for angiogenesis, may be a useful as a marker for malignant potential in breast cancer.

Y. Jitsuiki and colleagues of Japan's National Cancer Center Hospital East performed a study to discover whether there is a difference in microvessel count (MVC) in the different zones of tumor, which zone contains the highest MVC within the tumor, from which zone the MVCs best correlate with tumor recurrence or tumor death, and which histologic factors correlate with the MVC of the tumor ("Optimizing Microvessel Counts According to Tumor Zone in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast," Mod Pathol May 1999;12(5):492-8).

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