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SUBMITTER: Zagouri F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3619063 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zagouri F F Bago-Horvath Z Z Rössler F F Brandstetter A A Bartsch R R Papadimitriou C A CA Dimitrakakis C C Tsigginou A A Papaspyrou I I Giannos A A Dimopoulos M-A MA Filipits M M
British journal of cancer 20130219 5
<h4>Background</h4>The mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) pathway is frequently altered in tumours. The purpose of our study was to determine the prognostic value of tumour MET expression levels in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), in order to strengthen the rationale for targeted therapy of TNBC using MET inhibitors.<h4>Methods</h4>We determined expression of MET in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded surgical specimens of TNBC by immunohistochemistry. Recurrence-free and ov ...[more]