New device for identifying aggressive breast cancers

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 09:28 in Health & Medicine

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

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