Article
Breast cancer metastatic phenotype as predicted by histologic tumor markers.
The cancer journal from Scientific American - 1 Jan 2000
Heimann R, Ferguson D, Recant W M, Hellman S
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Two clinical characteristics of the metastatic cancer phenotype are virulence-which reflects the pace of disease growth, clinical manifestation, and dissemination-and metastagenicity, the ultimate likelihood of distant metastasis. Molecular markers may allow distinguishing between these two cancer phenotypes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and...
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