The Scientist : Breast cancer prognosis [4/2/2002]

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by Jonathan B Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Breast cancer prognosis

Microarray experiments have identified a gene-expression signature that can accurately predict prognosis in breast cancer patients.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020204-01

Published

4 February 2002

No-one really understands why some women with breast cancer respond well to chemotherapy while others do not, or how to predict an individual patient's chances of survival. In the January 31 Nature, Laura van't Veer and colleagues describe a gene-expression profiling study of breast tumors (Nature 2002, 415:530-536).

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