FIRB-HRBC

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer morbidity in women, accounting for close to one fourth of all new cancer cases in the female population# one out of ten women is likely to develop breast cancer in her lifetime. The project will focus on the definition of a set of genes involved in human breast cancer that will serve as a basis for the design of a common microarray platform. The platform will be used by all partners for carrying out gene expression profiling experiments. A common database will be implemented where all data gathered on each individual gene under study will be stored and made accessible to all participant laboratories. In addition, a separate database will link patient and gene expression data.