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Gross cystic disease fluid protein in nipple aspirates of breast fluid of Asian and non-Asian women.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Petrakis N L, Lowenstein J M, Wiencke J K, Lee M M, Wrensch M R, King E B, Hilton J F, Miike R
Abstract excerpt
Gross cystic disease fluid protein 15 (GCDFP-15) is universally present in the apocrine metaplastic epithelium of cystic breast disease and breast cancer, but it is rarely found in normal breast epithelium. Therefore GCDFP-15 detected in nipple aspirates of breast fluid (NAF) could serve as a biochemical marker of the presence and possibly extent of apocrine metaplasia within the breast. GCDFP-15 levels were...
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