Breast Cancer Research

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Tumor aromatase expression as a prognostic factor for local control in young breast cancer patients after breast-conserving treatment

Marc A Bollet1*, Alexia Savignoni2, Leanne De Koning3, Carine Tran-Perennou4, Catherine Barbaroux4, Armelle Degeorges4, Brigitte Sigal-Zafrani4, Geneviève Almouzni3, Paul Cottu5, Rémy Salmon6, Nicolas Servant9,7,8, Alain Fourquet1 and Patricia de Cremoux4

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

2 Department of Biostatistics, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

3 Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics and Genome Plasticity (UMR 218), Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

4 Department of Tumour Biology, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

5 Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

6 Department of Surgery, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

7 Department of Bio-informatics, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

8 INSERM, U900, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France

9 Ecole des Mines de Paris, 35 rue Saint Honoré, 77300, Fontainebleau, France

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Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R54 doi:10.1186/bcr2343

Published: 28 July 2009

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Table listing primer and probe sequences, PCR efficiencies, regression coefficient and references.

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Provides information from publicly available gene-expression studies of women, younger than 40 years old, treated with breast conserving treatments and whole breast radiotherapy.

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