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Hopeful · 01-23-2007, 08:29 PM

Jean,

Thanks for your interpretation. Sometimes these articles take language out of the paper they are reviewing and print it verbatim. The research papers often contain some cryptic writing that does not make sense out of context. I do understand that the high Ki-67 levels after two weeks of endocrine therapy was associated with higher risk of recurrence. I can also relate that to what Dr. Slamon told you about high Ki-67 and chemo. I am interested in reading about studies done with Ki-67, because they don't come along all that often.

BTW, I went to the link for the abstract of the paper from which this article was drawn: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/c...tract/99/2/167 I found the "context and caveats" section very helpful. This must have been a whopper to parse through!

Hopeful

01-23-2007, 08:29 PM	#4
Hopeful Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,380	Jean, Thanks for your interpretation. Sometimes these articles take language out of the paper they are reviewing and print it verbatim. The research papers often contain some cryptic writing that does not make sense out of context. I do understand that the high Ki-67 levels after two weeks of endocrine therapy was associated with higher risk of recurrence. I can also relate that to what Dr. Slamon told you about high Ki-67 and chemo. I am interested in reading about studies done with Ki-67, because they don't come along all that often. BTW, I went to the link for the abstract of the paper from which this article was drawn: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/c...tract/99/2/167 I found the "context and caveats" section very helpful. This must have been a whopper to parse through! Hopeful Last edited by Hopeful; 01-24-2007 at 07:41 AM.. Reason: add information