1. Heparanase: a potential marker of worse prognosis in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
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Tamar Zahavi, Mali Salmon-Divon, Roberto Salgado, Michael Elkin, Esther Hermano, Ariel M. Rubinstein, Prudence A. Francis, Angelo Di Leo, Giuseppe Viale, Evandro de Azambuja, Lieveke Ameye, Christos Sotiriou, Asher Salmon, Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha, and Amir Sonnenblick
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Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Abstract Heparanase promotes tumor growth in breast tumors. We now evaluated heparanase protein and gene-expression status and investigated its impact on disease-free survival in order to gain better insight into the role of heparanase in ER-positive (ER+) breast cancer prognosis and to clarify its role in cell survival following chemotherapy. Using pooled analysis of gene-expression data, we found that heparanase was associated with a worse prognosis in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) tumors (log-rank p
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- 2021
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