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Old 04-23-2010, 06:28 AM   #2
Hopeful
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Re: Her2 anemia treatment may be different

Rich, you may be interested in this article, as you do a lot of research: http://breast-cancer-research.com/co...df/bcr2560.pdf

The researchers were comparing the cellular pathways of bc in humans, to those of the mouse models that are used to test human drugs. At page 21, they state:

"The MMTV-Neu strain, however, does not accurately recapitulate HER2-overexpressing cancers arising in women, since MMTV-Neu tumors do not show significant gene overlap with the HER2- positive subtype but are more similar to human ‘luminal’ tumors."

I don't know what the implications are for research on Her2+ bc treatments using MMTV-Neu bc strains in mice, but thought I would bring it up.

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