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Genetic heterogeneity in breast cancer: the road to personalized medicine?


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Article

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Authors

Baird, Richard D 

Abstract

More women die from breast cancer across the world today than from any other type of malignancy. The clinical course of breast cancer varies tremendously between patients. While some of this variability is explained by traditional clinico-pathological factors (including patient age, tumor stage, histological grade and estrogen receptor status), molecular profiling studies have defined breast cancer subtypes with distinct clinical outcomes. This mini-review considers recent studies which have used genomics technologies in an attempt to identify new biomarkers of prognosis and treatment response. These studies highlight the genetic heterogeneity that exists within breast cancers in space and time.

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This is the final published version. It was originally published here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/151. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-151.

Keywords

Animals, Biomarkers, Tumor, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Genetic Heterogeneity, Humans, Mutation, Precision Medicine

Journal Title

BMC Med

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Journal ISSN

1741-7015
1741-7015

Volume Title

11

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC