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The Ki-67 reading gives the rate of cell proliferation and is detemined by examining tissue samples from the biopsied tumor. A reading of <2% indicates that the tumor is slow-growing. Between 2% and 20% is intermediate grade and >20% indicates a high grade, fast growing tumor.

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