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...Khandan Keyomarsi is the principal author of the paper titled, "Cyclin E, a Potential Prognostic Marker in Breast Cancer," which outlines a potential method to detect the cancer in the early stages...
...Cyclin E is a protein directly involved in the regulation of cell proliferation. It is necessary in order for cells to divide, and is crucial to the rapid division of tumor cells...
First, the levels of cyclin E are much higher in the tumor cells than in normal cells. Second, as the disease progresses, the cyclin E molecules are altered chemically to a greater extent...
...very similar for all the different cancers," she said. "In each sample we tested, the cyclin E was more abundant in the tumor cells than it is regularly. In addition, it was altered more in the advanced stages than in the early stages...
This success over a broad variety of cancers makes the method of cyclin E detection especially promising...