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Signaling by the IGF-IR has been studied in many different cell types and is important for proliferation, survival, motility, adhesion, transformation, tumor formation and metastasis [for reviews see refs [ 31 32 ] ]. The receptor can directly phosphorylate the insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) and Shc proteins in the intact cell causing activation of PI-3Kinase and ras signaling [ 33 ] . More recently, it has been shown that the IGF-IR signals via the Gβγ subunits of the heterotrimeric Gi complex to stimulate PI-3Kinase and ras, and also activates the JAK/Stat pathway to cause phosphorylation of Stat3 [ 34 35 ] .
6% of T 1 and T 2 lesions showed nodal metastasis where as 62.
Clinically undetectable nodal metastasis is the commonest cause of treatment failure.
In the present study we analyzed BP1 expression in human breast cancer cell lines and assessed BP1 expression in invasive ductal carcinoma tumors, correlating its expression with age, tumor size, lymph node metastasis, histologic grade, estrogen receptor (ER) status, progesterone receptor (PR) status, and race.
3% of the larger tumours showed metastasis (Table 3).