Breast Cancer

Different pattern of metastatic spread observed in BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 25th, 2003

Women with BRCA1-related breast cancer may need to be evaluated differently for metastatic disease and prognosis than women with BRCA2 or acquired breast cancers.

A new study to be published in the October 15, 2003, issue of Cancer finds, surprisingly, that the conventional breast cancer prognostic factors - tumor size and regional lymph node status - are not strongly correlated in women with BRCA1-related breast cancer. This may indicate a different pattern of metastatic spread in women with BRCA1-related breast tumors.

The results of this study were published online September 8, 2003 via Wiley InterScience...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-09-25)

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