Stages on the way to breast cancer.

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Pathways to breast cancer have been difficult to define using morphology alone. Although epithelial hyperplasia of usual type (HUT) is associated with moderately elevated breast cancer risk, molecular evidence placing it in a cancer precursor pathway is not clear-cut. Recent evidence suggests that small numbers of cytokeratin 5/6 positive cells are precursors of separate lineages which acquire either cytokeratin...

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