Breast Cancer Genetics
Researchers at Medical University of Gdansk release new data on breast cancer genetics
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 1st, 2008
New investigation results, 'Gene copy numbers of HER family in breast cancer,' are detailed in a study published in Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. "The aim of the study was to analyze the occurrence of abnormal gene copy numbers of all HER oncogenes and to correlate these alterations to other clinicopathological variables in a consecutive series of 225 breast cancer patients. Gene copy number of HER oncogenes was analyzed with double differential polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR)," investigators in Debinki, Poland report.
"Statistical analysis was performed with a set of nonparametric tests. Sixty-five percent of the tumors contained abnormal...
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