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Breast Cancer
Research on breast cancer reported by scientists at University of Messina
June 4th, 2009
According to a study from Messina, Italy, "Aim and background. In breast cancer, as in almost all neoplastic diseases, the prognosis is strictly related to the invasive capacity, local and distant, that characterizes the growth of all tumors." "Since the mechanisms that regulate replication of the neoplastic cells, with consequent capacity to metastasize, are not completely known, identification of new markers represents the gold standard of research in the stratification of patients with such a pathology. Osteopontin, a specific phosphoglycoprotein isolated from extracellular bone matrix and actively involved in mechanisms of bone reabsorption, appears to play a key...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-04)
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