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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Jihye Kim
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-31192 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Hormones & cancer 20130312 3
Pregnancy-associated breast cancers (PABC) generally present at advanced stages and have a poor prognosis. The reasons are unclear but we hypothesized that the continuous high levels of estrogens and progesterone were involved. We have now carried out a detailed analysis of PABC compared to tumors of age-matched nonpregnant (non-PABC) women. Malignant epithelia and tumor-associated stroma of PABC and non-PABC were isolated by laser capture microdissection and gene expression profiled. Additional ...[more]