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A greater understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in metastatic spread is needed to facilitate advances in prognostic evaluation for individual patients, and in the design of therapeutic interventions to inhibit the process.
Through multiple molecular analyses we have identified and verified a number of genes whose expression correlates with the metastatic phenotype in this xenograft model.
All three specimens from patient 2, including the original lung tumor and the two metastatic samples from bone and lung, showed an exon 19 deletion involving elimination of 11 nucleotides (2238–2248) and insertion of two nucleotides, G and C (Figure S2B, all panels; Table 1).
Common agents currently used in treating metastatic breast cancer are the antimitotics paclitaxel and docetaxel [ 1 2 ] . These drugs bind to β-tubulin, a major protein in mitotic spindles, and halt cell division at metaphase.
Retraining on these 34 genes gave no errors in a 3-way (normal, early tumor, metastatic disease) classification of 53 patients (unpublished data).