title: Imaging cancer gene activity in patients from outside the body.
abstract: Is the lump malignant or benign? The investigators propose to answer this question by injecting a nuclear medicine gene probe into patients with suspicious lumps in their breasts. They then use scanning techniques to see if active cancer genes light up.
authors: Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Wickstrom
authors: Mathew L
authors: ML
authors: Thakur
keywords: cancer; hybridization; magnetic resonance imaging; oligonucleotides; oncogenes; positron emission tomography; scintigraphic imaging