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Breast cancer tests: Same difference

August 14, 2006 7:00 AM UTC

Researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that even though different diagnostic developers have created tests for breast cancer using different gene sets, four of five tests that they analyzed showed significant agreement in the outcome predictions for individual patients. Thus they are likely tracking a common set of phenotypes.

"The results are accurate and provide precise information for patients to make the right choices," said Charles Perou, the lead researcher on the study and assistant professor of genetics and pathology at the University of North Carolina...