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SUBMITTER: Wittner BS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3089800 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wittner Ben S BS Sgroi Dennis C DC Ryan Paula D PD Bruinsma Tako J TJ Glas Annuska M AM Male Anitha A Dahiya Sonika S Habin Karleen K Bernards Rene R Haber Daniel A DA Van't Veer Laura J LJ Ramaswamy Sridhar S
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20080501 10
<h4>Purpose</h4>Most node-negative breast cancer patients are older and postmenopausal and are increasingly being offered adjuvant chemotherapy despite their low overall risk of distant relapse. A molecular diagnostic test with high negative predictive value (NPV) for distant metastasis in this subgroup would spare many older breast cancer patients adjuvant treatment.<h4>Experimental design</h4>We determined the NPV and positive predictive value of the MammaPrint assay in breast cancer patients ...[more]