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Breast Cancer
Research results from Tsinghua University update knowledge of breast cancer
April 24th, 2008
According to recent research from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Data from gene expression arrays hold an enormous amount of biological information. We sought to determine if global gene expression in primary breast cancers contained information about biologic, histologic, and anatomic features of the disease in individual patients." "Microarray data from the tumors of 129 patients were analyzed for the ability to predict biomarkers [estrogen receptor (ER) and HER2], histologic features [grade and lymphatic-vascular invasion (LVI)], and stage parameters (tumor size and lymph node metastasis). Multiple statistical predictors were used and the prediction accuracy...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-04-24)
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