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Breast Cancer
Research from University of Michigan reveals new findings on breast cancer
November 20th, 2008
" Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a lethal form of breast cancer with unknown etiology. A higher frequency of IBC and a more aggressive IBC phenotype was reported in Egypt than in the United States," researchers in the United States report. "This difference in disease frequency and presentation might be related to molecular epidemiologic factors. We used tumor blocks and demographic, epidemiologic, and clinical data of 48 IBC patients from Egypt and 12 patients from the United States. We counted tumor emboli in tumors before and after immunohistochemical staining with lymphatic vessel endothelial receptor-1 (LYVE-1), and measured the expression of RhoC GTPase...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-11-20)
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