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Breast Cancer
Research from Stavanger University reveals new findings on breast cancer
July 24th, 2008
According to a study from Stavanger, Norway, "Apolipoprotein D (ApoP) is a promising prognostic and predictive factor in breast cancer, but the analysis methods and results vary. Determination of ApoD content by immunoelectrophoresis in tumour cytosol (EPC), immunohistochemistry (IHC) in whole sections (WS) and tissue micro arrays (TAM) were compared in 283 breast carcinomas." "With EPC, 45% and with IHC, 71% of the tumours were ApoD-positive. Correlation between the degrees of ApoD positivity by ECP and IHC was poor (R-2=0.04), caused by higher sensitivity of the IHC (resulting in many ECP negative carcinomas being IHC positive) and ApoD positivity of normal tissues...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-24)
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