Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women and is prognostically very heterogeneous. Early breast cancer has an excellent overall prognosis with long-term survival above 90%. In this group we can also find patients with highly unfavourable progress with a risk of future disease relapse. Due to effective anticancer treatment is a main task of precise clinical decision to determine risk of an individual patient in the term of cancer relapse. We can use clinical (tumor diameter, lymph nodes) and pathological markers (grade, ER, PgR, HER2, and Ki-67), all of them have low individual sensitivity and specificity. Molecular tests based on multigene DNA or RNA assays have higher sensitivity and specificity but their interrelated concordance is low. One of the main scientific task is to find almost specific and sensitive prognostic biomarkers. microRNAs are small, highly stable, non-coding RNAs, which regulate tens of mRNAs and proteins inside cells. In cancerogenesis, they could act as oncogenes or tumor supressors as well and affect main steps of initiation and progression of cancer. One of the scientific directions is to determine their prognostic significance. Many experimental and clinical studies defining prognostic significance of miRs in early breast cancer was published but their data were...
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:391378 |
Date | January 2018 |
Creators | Sochor, Marek |
Contributors | Tesařová, Petra, Slabý, Ondřej, Hajdúch, Marián |
Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
Language | Czech |
Detected Language | English |
Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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