Article
Familial versus sporadic breast cancer.
Cancer - 15 Sept 1992
Anderson D E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Studies comparing patients with familial and sporadic breast cancer have indicated that a family history of the disease can increase a woman's risk for having the disease twofold to threefold and that patients with familial breast cancer have a younger age at diagnosis and have a high...
Topics
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Breast Neoplasms
- Female
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Oncogenes