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Breast Cancer
Reports summarize breast cancer research from B.H. Nam and co-authors
May 29th, 2008
According to recent research from South Korea, " Brain metastases ( BM) occur in up to one third of patients with metastatic breast cancer ( MBC), whose incidences and prognoses by breast cancer subtypes in BM have not been well delineated. Retrospective survival analyses were performed in 126 BM patients from 805 MBC patients treated at the National Cancer Center between August 2001 and April 2006, according to clinical characteristics, breast cancer subtypes, and receipt of trastuzumab." "Estrogen receptor ( ER), progesterone receptor ( PR), and human epidermal growth receptor- 2 ( HER2) statuses were tested by immunohistochemical ( IHC) staining, and HER2 FISH...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-05-29)
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