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Breast Cancer
Research reports on breast cancer from City Hospital provide new insights
September 11th, 2008
According to recent research from Nottingham, the United Kingdom, "Basal phenotype has been found to be an independent poor prognostic factor for breast cancer. The aim of this study was to assess the mammographic appearance of screening-detected breast carcinoma with the basal phenotype." "A series of 1,944 consecutively enrolled patients with operable invasive breast cancer underwent immunohistochemical analysis with cytokeratin 5/6 and cytokeratin 14 markers to identify tumors exhibiting basal phenotype characteristics. Among those patients, 356 women with breast cancer were common to a prospectively collected database of screening-detected cases of breast cancer....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-09-11)
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