New test discovered to better predict breast cancer outcomes
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 16:50
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from McGill University's Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre (GCRC), the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC), the DanaFarber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have discovered a gene signature that can accurately predict which breast cancer patients are at risk of relapse, thereby sparing those who are not from the burdens associated with unnecessary treatment.