Insulin receptor predicts favorable outcome in breast cancer
 

http://www.breastcancersource.com/br..._28772___.aspx

Hopeful

This looks like a very interesting article, tho I would love it if someone would put it into laymen's terms as far as these different insulin factors.

THX

TRS

Terri, I do not have a medical background, nor the gift of some others on this Board who are good at "translation." However, here is the link to the abstract from which the article was written: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m2712r1197000072/ and the conclusion stated therein (IR = insulin receptor):

"IR is highly expressed in the majority of early stage breast cancers but this expression is not clearly down-regulated in the presence of high insulin levels. Furthermore, high expression of IR is independently and significantly associated with more favorable clinical outcomes. Follow-up intervention research is recommended."

Hopeful