Sprouty 2 is an independent prognostic factor in breast cancer and may be useful in stratifying patients for trastuzumab therapy.

Resistance to trastuzumab is a clinical problem, partly due to overriding activation of MAPK/PI3K signalling. Sprouty-family proteins are negative regulators of MAPK/PI3K signalling, but their role in HER2-therapy resistance is unknown.Associations between Sprouty gene expression and clinicopatholog...

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Main Authors: Dana Faratian, Andrew H Sims, Peter Mullen, Charlene Kay, Inhwa Um, Simon P Langdon, David J Harrison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3166119?pdf=render