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Breast Cancer
Researchers at Technical University of Dresden publish new data on breast cancer
April 10th, 2008
According to a study from Dresden, Germany, "The purpose of this study was to compare the chromosomal genotype between breast cancers with and without secondary manifestations and between primary tumors and their secondary manifestations. Eighty six breast cancers, twenty lymph node metastases, ten distant metastases and ten local recurrences were analyzed by comparative genomic hybridization." "Tumors with local recurrences showed significant more frequent losses at 2q32 than the tumors without recurrences. Lymph node positive cases showed significant more frequent losses at 9p21 than node negative cases. Lymph node metastases exhibited significant more frequent losses...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-04-10)
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