Greetings! I start my new position in San Francisco on October 3 so I am very excited by many things.
There are two breast cancer items this month of note – the first a molecular step forward, the second a clinical step forward.
A press release came to me about a publication that appeared in Science Express. Dr Velculescu at Johns Hopkins and others have identified 200 mutated genes associated with breast (and colon) cancer. Genes are made up of segments of DNA which is a long chain made...
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