New universal breast cancer marker predicts recurrence and clinical outcome
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 12:07
in Health & Medicine
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.