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Published in: Breast Cancer Research 3/2009

01-12-2009 | Short communication

Gene expression profiling of breast cancer

Author: Lajos Pusztai

Published in: Breast Cancer Research | Special Issue 3/2009

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Important differences in the clinical behaviour of oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive and ER-negative cancers have been recognised for a long time [1]. Nevertheless, breast cancer was regarded as a single disease with variable histology and clinical course. More recently, high-throughput analytical methods revealed unexpectedly large-scale molecular differences between ER-positive cancers and ER-negative cancers [2]. These results prompted a conceptual shift in the classification of breast cancer, which is increasingly viewed not as a single disease but as a collection of several biologically distinct neoplastic diseases that arise from the breast epithelium. …
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Metadata
Title
Gene expression profiling of breast cancer
Author
Lajos Pusztai
Publication date
01-12-2009
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Breast Cancer Research / Issue Special Issue 3/2009
Electronic ISSN: 1465-542X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr2430

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