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Hopeful · 09-10-2009, 06:42 AM

"The researchers examined 107 invasive breast cancer cases and found that 23 of the cancers overexpressed both proteins. Those patients also had significantly shorter survival times due to metastasis-related deaths than those whose tumors expressed one or neither of the proteins. "

This seems to say how prevalent the expression of both proteins were in a general population of bc patients. It is frustrating not to know the percentage of co-expression among Her2+ patients alone.

Hopeful

09-10-2009, 06:42 AM	#2
Hopeful Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,380	Re: Protein allows cells altered by the oncoprotein ErbB2/HER2 to escape their bonds "The researchers examined 107 invasive breast cancer cases and found that 23 of the cancers overexpressed both proteins. Those patients also had significantly shorter survival times due to metastasis-related deaths than those whose tumors expressed one or neither of the proteins. " This seems to say how prevalent the expression of both proteins were in a general population of bc patients. It is frustrating not to know the percentage of co-expression among Her2+ patients alone. Hopeful