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Human papillomavirus type 16 E6 inactivation of p53 in normal human mammary epithelial cells promotes tamoxifen-mediated apoptosis.
Cancer research - 15 Jan 2001
Seewaldt V L, Mrózek K, Dietze E C, Parker M, Caldwell L E
Abstract excerpt
Aberrant p53 expression is frequently observed in mammary epithelial cells obtained from women at high risk for developing breast cancer and is a predictor for the subsequent development of malignancy. Tamoxifen has recently been shown to reduce the incidence of noninvasive breast cancer in high-risk women, but the molecular mechanism of tamoxifen chemoprevention in mammary epithelial tissue that does not...
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