Article
Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene and early onset breast cancer.
Cancer biology & therapy - 1 Jan 2000
Lai Hong, Lin Lin, Nadji Mehrdad, Lai Shenghan, Trapido Edward, Meng Lou
Abstract excerpt
Among breast cancer patients p53 gene mutation is associated with a poor prognosis. Young women with breast cancer are more likely than older women to have a poor prognosis, but whether p53 gene mutation plays a role in breast cancer in young women is not clear. This study identified 199 breast cancer patients and tested the hypothesis that p53 gene mutation was associated with early onset breast cancer. Patients...
Topics
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Breast Neoplasms
- Carcinoma
- Codon
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Exons
- Female
- Genes, p53
- Germ-Line Mutation
