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Breast cancer in female carriers of ATM gene alterations: outcome of adjuvant radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - 1 Sept 2004
Meyer Andreas, John Esther, Dörk Thilo, Sohn Christof, Karstens Johann H, Bremer Michael
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: We analyzed the clinical outcome of breast cancer patients carrying sequence variants in the ATM gene who received postoperative radiotherapy after breast conservative surgery to test whether an increased cellular radiosensitivity may translate into enhanced tumor cell killing and thereby result in an improvement of the therapeutic ratio. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We investigated a cohort of...
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