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Target Discovery and Validation Reviews and Protocols

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102 Sørlie<br />

Fig. 4. Kaplan–Meier analysis of disease outcome in two patient cohorts. (A) Overall<br />

survival for 72 patients with locally advanced breast cancer in the Norway cohort. The<br />

normal-like tumor subgroups were omitted from both data sets in this analysis. (B) Time<br />

to development of distant metastasis in the 97 sporadic cases from ref. 30. (Adapted from<br />

ref. 22.)<br />

profiling needs to be further addressed. In a recent study, Eden et al. (38)<br />

reported that an optimal combination of “conventional” prognostic factors was<br />

of similar value as published gene signatures. The great advantage of gene profiles<br />

as opposed to conventional prognostic factors is the ability of the biological<br />

causes, beyond the mere empirical observations, to occur, <strong>and</strong> to be able to<br />

dissect the molecular biology discriminating different tumor forms (1).

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