For Invasive Breast Cancer, Researchers Identify Biomarkers of Treatment Response
- Care For A Cure
- Dec 16, 2016
- 1 min read
"Why do some breast cancers respond to treatment while others resist it? A study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center may provide insight into this important question.
The researchers report at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium they have identified biomarkers they believe can be used as part of a larger model to predict how patients with HER2-positive operative breast cancer will respond to the targeted treatment trastuzumab, commercially known as Herceptin, and chemotherapy.
“We’re trying to find biomarkers for resistance to trastuzumab treatment and chemotherapy,” said the study’s first author Maki Tanioka, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at UNC Lineberger. “What’s the cause of response? What’s the cause of resistance? That’s what we are trying to identify in this genomic study.”"
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