Abstract
Purpose Better breast cancer prognostication may improve selection of patients for adjuvant therapy. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal study in which we investigated sera of high-risk primary breast cancer patients, to search for proteins predictive of recurrence-free survival. Methods Sera of 82 breast cancer patients obtained after surgery, but prior to the administration of adjuvant therapy, were fractionated using anion-exchange chromatography, to facilitate the detection of the low-abundant serum peptides. Selected fractions were subsequently analysed by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS), and the resulting protein profiles were searched for prognostic markers by appropriate bioinformatics tools. Results Four peak clusters (i.e. m/z 3073, m/z 3274, m/z 4405 and m/z 7973) were found to bear significant prognostic value (P
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1773-1783 |
Journal | Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology |
Volume | 137 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2011 |
Keywords
- Breast cancer
- Recurrence-free survival
- Prognostic markers
- Serum
- Anion-exchange fractionation
- SELDI-TOF MS