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In later stages of tumorigenesis, TGFβ can act as a stimulator of invasion and metastasis [ 3 ] acting directly on the tumor cells or inducing angiogenesis and facilitating local and systemic immunosuppression, respectively [ 4 ] . For example, TGFβ may stimulate the expression of proteases such as uPA, MMP-3 or MMP-9, enzymes frequently overexpressed in invasive tumor cells [ 5 6 ] .
In addition, one out of 36 glands sampled had a lesion with the appearance of a ductal carcinoma in situ (focal necrosis, marked atypia and abundant mitoses, placing it in the category of 'mammary intraepithelial neoplasia' by the Annapolis naming convention [ 22]), and an additional one had an invasive carcinoma.
If protection from invasive disease is due to acquiring anticapsular antibodies against each of the pneumococcal serotypes, they argued, this would lead to two predictions about the age distribution of disease caused by the different serotypes in the non-vaccinated population.
Among the 175 cases, all contained non-invasive lesions, including ductal and lobular carcinoma in situ and sclerosing adenosis, and a few cases had invasive components.
All these methods have problems; some are very invasive, others are very time consuming, and none are completely reliable.