ASCO herceptin trial updates for primary BC

[Christine MH-UK]

Hi Lani,

What you are describing in terms of looking at large numbers of breast cancer markers, treatments used, and recurrence rates sounds like what the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project on the World Community Grid has been trying to do. As I recall they were analyzing microarrays of hundreds of thousands of samples and were hoping that findings could be used to match treatments to patients. Researchers at a medical school in New Jersey had developed the project and prepared all the samples. The computers just finished crunching the data from the project a short time ago, so there are no findings yet, but this is an active area of research.