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Breast Cancer
High levels of angiogenic protein are linked to the presence of macrophages in breast tumors
March 9th, 2006
High levels of angiogenic protein are linked to the presence of macrophages in breast tumors. According to researchers in Spain, "We analyzed serum and tumor samples from 133 patients with operable primary breast cancer to determine the possible relationship between presurgery and postsurgery circulating serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels and tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) numbers, tumor VEGF expression, and other immunohistochemical parameters. A significant positive correlation was observed between the number of TAM and postsurgery circulating VEGF values (p<.05)." "Moreover, patients with a p53+ tumor had higher...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-03-09)
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