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HER-2 Gene Amplification Can Be Acquired as Breast Cancer Progresses

HER-2 Gene Amplification Can Be Acquired as Breast Cancer Progresses

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HER-2 Gene Amplification Can Be Acquired as Breast Cancer Progresses

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Full title

HER-2 Gene Amplification Can Be Acquired as Breast Cancer Progresses

Publisher

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2004-06, Vol.101 (25), p.9393-9398

Language

English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Amplification and overexpression of the HER-2 oncogene in breast cancer is felt to be stable over the course of disease and concordant between primary tumor and metastases. Therefore, patients with HER-2-negative primary tumors rarely will receive anti-Her-2 antibody (trastuzumab, Herceptin) therapy. A very sensitive blood test was used to capture...

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HER-2 Gene Amplification Can Be Acquired as Breast Cancer Progresses

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_66644659

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_66644659

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.0402993101

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