New Device for Identifying Aggressive Breast Cancers

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 19:56 in Health & Medicine

A disposable device designed to efficiently capture cancer cells overexpressing the protein HER2 in circulating blood is described in the journal Biomicrofluidics. It may help identify advanced breast cancer patients who are candidates for therapy with the drug trastuzumab (Herceptin).

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