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Training physicians and caregivers to improve cultural sensitivity and communication with economically disadvantaged African-American patients could influence these women to get mammograms that could save their lives, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal medicine. The study found that many African-American women perceive they are being treated with disrespect and receive inadequate explanations about screenings when they go to health care facilities.

IntroductionSeveral gene expression signatures have been proposed which have been demonstrated to be predictive of outcome in breast cancer. Here we address the following issues: 1) Do these signatures perform similarly? 2) Are there (common) molecular processes reported by these signatures? 3) Can better prognostic predictors be constructed based on these identified molecular processes? Methods: We performed a comprehensive analysis of the performance of nine gene expression signatures on seven different breast cancer datasets. To better characterize the functional processes associated with these signatures, we enlarged each signature by including all probes with a significant correlation to at least one of the genes in the original signature. The enrichment of functional groups was assessed using four ontology databases. Results: The classification performance of the nine gene expression signatures is very similar in terms of assigning a sample to either a 'poor' or 'good' outcome gr

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