New universal breast cancer marker predicts recurrence and clinical outcome
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
(PHILADELPHIA) Reporting online in the American Journal of Pathology, researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have implicated the loss of a stromal protein called caveolin-1 as a major new prognostic factor in patients with breast cancer, predicting early disease recurrence, metastasis and breast cancer patient survival.
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