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Article: Agendia's Breast Cancer Test MammaPrint(R) Identifies New Subset of Low Risk HER2+ Patients.
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- December 13, 2008
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Recent Study Reveals Substantial Group of Traditionally Miscategorized HER2+ Patients
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, December 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Michael Knauer from the Netherlands Cancer Institute today announced data uncovering a substantial group of traditionally miscategorized low risk HER2+ patients. Agendia's highly accurate breast cancer tumor recurrence test, MammaPrint(R), was used to differentiate between patients at high and low risk for recurrence.
HER2+ patients are commonly identified as high risk, yet MammaPrint was able to identify a low risk subgroup of HER2+ patients, who subsequently experienced a 10 year disease-free ...