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Breast Cancer
Research from M.G. Daidone and colleagues provide new insights into breast cancer
October 2nd, 2008
"The impressive knowledge derived from gene-expression profiling studies challenges the currently used breast cancer classification and the existing theories of metastatic progression and breast cancer biology. The proposed prognostic gene-expression signatures outperform traditional clinical risk-classification systems, suggesting the possibility to reduce over treatment in early breast cancer," scientists writing in the journal Personalized Medicine report. "Nevertheless, the ability to identify high-risk patients and markers/signatures predictive of treatment response still needs to be improved. In this retrospective study carried out on 964 patients with...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-10-02)
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