rofessor in Breast Medical Oncology, and Ryuji Kobayashi, Ph.D., a professor in Experimental Pathology, and colleagues at a number of other institutions, to look for novel breast cancer markers that could include proteins, lipids, genes and other molecules associated with tumor cells. Early results in an ongoing study suggest that a panel of proteins is at least as effective as mammography in determining whether women have a breast abnormality, but "these results need to be compared with other ongoing studies," says Mills.

"There is real excitement in the potential of these protein tests," he says. "For a number of diseases, I think we can expect to have powerful diagnostic and predictive tests within a decade."

"We are early in this field, and its history has been a little optimistic," says Experimental Therapeutics Professor Walter Hittelman, Ph.D., a basic researcher who studies the potential of biomarkers to help thwart even the initial development of cancer. "There will be different rates of discovery for different types of cancer, but we are getting there."

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Contact: Nancy Jensen
nwjensen@mdanderson.org
713-792-0655
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
9-Jan-2004

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