Test could predict whether breast cancer will spread to the brain

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 12:20 in Health & Medicine

Women with particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer could be identified by a test that predicts whether the disease is likely to spread to the brain. An analysis of almost 4,000 patients with breast cancer found that testing for high activity in a particular gene could pick out women who were at greater risk of developing secondary brain tumors compared to women who tested negative.

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