important new article by Dr. Slamon et al

[Lani]

http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/10/1/R3

please see the sections on effect of her2 on 5 yr DFS, and effect of pAKT on 5 yr survival

Study on 141 tumors --patients all of Afro-American and Hispanic descent

If there was a tumor registry, they could quickly examine this in larger numbers of patients and perhaps it could become an acknowledged biomarker earlier, if warranted