© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 23, 1861,
December 6, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Increased expression of the receptor tyrosine kinase Her-2-neu is associated with poor prognosis for women with breast or ovarian cancer; however, the association between Her-2-neu expression and prostate cancer has been controversial. Signoretti et al. (p. 1918) evaluated expression of Her-2-neu in untreated, androgen-dependent, and androgen-independent human prostate cancers. Although the Her-2-neu gene was not amplified in prostate cancer, the authors reported that the proportion of tumors expressing Her-2-neu protein was lowest in the untreated cancers, higher in androgen-dependent cancers, and highest in
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