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Hopeful
07-10-2008, 06:36 AM
This is a Medscape article and may require registration (free) to access: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/577334

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Christine MH-UK
07-14-2008, 01:35 AM
It is also here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66759.html

It was interesting that 52 percent of breast cancer patients under 45 were her2 positive versus 24 percent of women over the age of 65 in this study. Also that there are 350 sets of genes that were only activated in younger patients.