New tool predicts women’s outcome in breast cancer
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Evaluating how various proteins interact in tumors can help predict a woman’s chances of surviving breast cancer, allowing doctors to better tailor treatment, Canadian researchers said on Sunday.
Knowing from the outset that a particular woman’s prognosis is bad could allow doctors to give her aggressive treatment right away, but often it is difficult to know which breast cancer patients will do well and which will not.
The researchers analyzed networks of proteins — chemical compounds vital in cellular processes — in breast cancer tissue from about 350 women in the United States and Europe.
They found that women who survived the disease had a different organization of the network of proteins within the cancer cells than those who died.
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