Fifty-one Genes Predict Breast Cancer Survival

Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 20:21 in Health & Medicine

It may be possible in the future to use a specimen from the tumor to determine which patients with breast cancer have a good chance of overcoming the disease, and which patients should be given more intensive treatments. Fifty-one genes may together provide information about the prognosis for an individual patient.

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