Abstract:Despite significant advances in biology and medicine, the incidence and mortality due to cancer world-wide is still unacceptably high. With the goal of detection and eradication of disease, our overall strategy had been to identify a novel molecular indicator, Epithelial Membrane Protein 2 (EMP2), which is ‘targetable' and ‘permeable'. EMP2 is a tetraspan protein that is expressed in a distinct subset of several cancers including breast, endometrial, ovarian, and brain. For instance, EMP2 expression is increas… Show more
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