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Molecular portraits of breast cancer: tumour subtypes as distinct disease entities.

Sørlie T

Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway. rsorlie@labmed.uio.no

This Review describes advances in the characterisation of breast tumour phenotypes using DNA microarrays and the identification of five subtypes of breast cancer with significant clinical implications.

Published 1 December 2004 in Eur J Cancer, 40(18): 2667-75.
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