Elevated mammaglobin (h-MAM) expression in breast cancer is associated with clinical and biological features defining a less aggressive tumour phenotype.

doi:10.1186/bcr587

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Elevated mammaglobin (h-MAM) expression in breast cancer is associated with clinical and biological features defining a less aggressive tumour phenotype.

Breast cancer research : BCR - 1 Jan 2003

Núñez-Villar M J, Martínez-Arribas F, Pollán M, Lucas A R, Sánchez J, Tejerina A, Schneider J

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BACKGROUND: Mammaglobin (h-MAM) is expressed mainly by breast epithelial cells, and this feature has been used to detect circulating breast cancer cells and occult metastases in sentinel axillary lymph nodes of breast cancer patients. However, the biological role of mammaglobin is completely unkn...

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