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Current methods of breast cancer diagnosis

Abstract:

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women, and represents the second highest number of deaths around the world, it's difficult to diagnose because there are different types of breast cancer. The new methods for the detection of breast cancer are very promising because they guarantee that the patients received the specific kind of treatment. At present, there are breast cancer detection techniques which are very expensive, traditional and complicated, which leads us to the need to develop easy-to-use and more sensitive devices. In this review, we will analyze more recent methods of breast cancer diagnosis such as molecular signatures, micro-RNA, and bioinformatic methods.