by Krista Conger, Stanford University Medical Center Women with early-stage breast cancer that has a specific pattern of gene expression are more likely than others to benefit from treatment with a class of common but potentially harmful chemotherapy drugs called anthracyclines, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Identifying these women is...
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Sex-linked differences in cancer may identify gender-specific genetic drivers and predict responses to treatment
Analysis of male- and female-derived tumor samples revealed differences in prognostic biomarkers, genes that drive cancer, and in the regulation of key pathways that may predict response to treatment, according to results published in two studies in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Paul Boutros, Ph.D., MBA, and colleagues...