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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Eric Wooten
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-350 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Lancet (London, England) 20030801 9381
<h4>Background</h4>Systemic chemotherapy for operable breast cancer substantially decreases the risk of death. Patients often have de novo resistance or incomplete response to docetaxel, one of the most active agents in this disease. We postulated that gene expression profiles of the primary breast cancer can predict the response to docetaxel.<h4>Methods</h4>We took core biopsy samples from primary breast tumours in 24 patients before treatment and then assessed tumour response to neoadjuvant do ...[more]