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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Dong-Yu Wang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-23386 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
BMC cancer 20110616
<h4>Background</h4>The ability of gene profiling to predict treatment response and prognosis in breast cancers has been demonstrated in many studies using DNA microarray analyses on RNA from fresh frozen tumor specimens. In certain clinical and research situations, performing such analyses on archival formalin fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) surgical specimens would be advantageous as large libraries of such specimens with long-term follow-up data are widely available. However, FFPE tissue proces ...[more]