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Breast Cancer
Reports outline breast cancer study results from Lund University
May 8th, 2008
According to recent research from Lund, Sweden, "The driving force behind oncoproteornics is to identify biomarker signatures associated with a particular malignancy. Here, we have for the first time used large-scale recombinant scFv antibody microarrays in an attempt to classify metastatic breast cancer versus healthy controls, based on differential protein expression profiling of whole serum samples." "Using this multiplexed and miniaturised assay set-up providing pM range sensitivities, breast cancer could be classified with a specificity and sensitivity of 85% based on 129 serum analytes. However, by adopting a condensed 11 analyte biomarker signature, composed of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-05-08)
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