DETERMINATION OF SERUM MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2 AND 9 (MMP-2) (MMP-9) IN BREAST CANCER INVASION AND METASTASIS

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes implicated in the degradation and remodeling of extracellular matrix and in vascularization. The current study, was aimed to determine the effect of gelatinizes in breast cancer progression by the measurement the levels of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in serum of breast tumor by ELISA. The present study involved 80 samples including 60 patients of breast tumor, which were selected from Medical Centre for Oncology, and 20 as control(normal subject),which select fromsouthern technical university from south region of Iraq in Basrah city during the period from October 2017 to February 2018.The results showed that measurements of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in the serum of the women with malignant tumor were highly significant (P≤0.01) compared with benign and control, regarding the grade of cancer subjects, stage and lymph node metastasis.This conclude the present of a correlation of the serological measurement of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in patients with breast cancer and metastasis.