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HER-2 Gene Amplification in Paget Disease of the Nipple and Extramammary Site: A Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization Study
21 Aug 2006
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Patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2) overexpressing breast carcinomas have a more aggressive clinical behavior and their tumors are often hormone receptor negative. However, the recently introduced anti-HER-2 antibody trastuzumab has been proven to improve the survival and controls the disease in a significant proportion of these patients. Therefore, the analysis of HER-2 in patients...
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