Letter
Circulating microRNAs: promising breast cancer Biomarkers
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* Corresponding author: Nicola Miller nicola.miller@nuigalway.ie
Department of Surgery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Clinical Science Institute, Costello Road, Galway, Ireland
Breast Cancer Research 2011, 13:402 doi:10.1186/bcr2798
See related research article by Roth et al., http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/6/R90 and related letter by Roth et al., http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/13/1/403
Published: 4 February 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
We read with interest the recent article by Roth and colleagues [1] reporting the findings of altered tumorspecific microRNAs (miRNAs) in sera of breast cancer patients. This report further substantiates emerging data suggesting that blood-based miRNAs have immense potential as novel non-invasive cancer biomarkers. However, we have several concerns regarding the authors' study.