Article
Genetic predisposition to breast cancer.
Cancer - 15 Sept 1992
Skolnick M H, Cannon-Albright L A
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women. Because metastatic breast cancer is an incurable disease, efforts to decrease breast cancer mortality have focused on early detection and improved treatment. Identification and analysis of a specific genetic susceptibility could permit detection of susceptible women and greatly increase the understanding of the initial step that eventually leads to...
Topics
- Age Factors
- Breast Neoplasms
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Techniques
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Pedigree
- Risk
- Sex Factors