Detection of prolactin-inducible protein expression in patients with breast cancer micro-metastasis / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Prolactin-inducible protein(PIP)is regarded as a kind of specific tumor marker,and detecting the expression of PIP from breast cancer tissues,metastatic lymph nodes and peripheral blood can find breast cancer micro-metastasis effectively.Some technologies such as immunohistochemistry,reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and so on can detect PIP sensitivily.Recently,these technologies have been used in some clinical and basic studies.Detection rate of breast cancer micro-metastasis is improved effectively when PIP is combined with other tumor makers,especially mammag-lobin and cytokeratin 19.