Article
TP53 mutations as biomarkers for cancer epidemiology in Latin America: current knowledge and perspectives.
Mutation research - 1 May 2005
de Moura Gallo Claudia Vitória, Azevedo E Silva Mendonça Gulnar, de Moraes Emanuela, Olivier Magali, Hainaut Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Due to particular social and economical development, and to the impact of globalization of lifestyles, Latin America shows a superposition of cancers that are frequent in low resource countries (gastric, oesophageal squamous cell and cervical cancers) and high resource countries (cancers of breast, colon and rectum, lung and prostate). Latin America thus offers opportunities for investigating the impact on...
Topics
- Adult
- Child
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Epidemiologic Studies
- Genes, p53
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Germ-Line Mutation
- Humans
- Latin America
- Life Style
