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N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)retinamide is more potent than other phenylretinamides in inhibiting the growth of BRCA1-mutated breast cancer cells.
Carcinogenesis - 1 May 2005
Simeone Ann-Marie, Deng Chu-Xia, Kelloff Gary J, Steele Vernon E, Johnson Marcella M, Tari Ana M
Abstract excerpt
Women with germline mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The synthetic retinoid N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide (4-HPR) has been shown to have a clinical chemopreventive activity in patients with premenopausal breast cancer. Since BRCA1 mutations are associated with an early-onset breast cancer, usually before menopause, we hypothesized that...
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