Test Predicts Spread of Breast Cancer
Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by Steve W. in Science & Medicine
Scientists at MIT, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical School have developed a test that could help doctors precisely identify which breast cancer patients should receive aggressive therapy, thereby sparing many women at low risk for metastatic disease from undergoing unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatment.
The researchers, including MIT biology professor Frank Gertler, developed the test based on an earlier finding that the co-mingling of three cell types can predict whether localized breast cancer will metastasize, or spread throughout the body. The findings are published March 24 in the online version of Clinical Cancer Research.
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