The Prognostic Role of a Gene Signature from Tumorigenic Breast-Cancer Cells
Author(s) -
Rui Liu,
Xinhao Wang,
Grace Chen,
Piero Dalerba,
Austin Gurney,
Timothy Hoey,
Gavin Sherlock,
John Lewicki,
Kerby Shedden,
Michael F. Clarke
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa063994
Subject(s) - breast cancer , medicine , oncology , metastasis , cd44 , gene signature , cancer , ca15 3 , survival rate , population , lung cancer , cancer research , cd24 , gene , gene expression , cell , biology , genetics , environmental health , biochemistry
Breast cancers contain a minority population of cancer cells characterized by CD44 expression but low or undetectable levels of CD24 (CD44+CD24-/low) that have higher tumorigenic capacity than other subtypes of cancer cells.
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