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Breast cancer in an MSH2 gene mutation carrier.
Human pathology - 1 Dec 2005
Westenend Pieter J, Schütte Ronald, Hoogmans Monique M C P, Wagner Anja, Dinjens Winand N M
Abstract excerpt
A 49-year-old woman presented with breast cancer. She is a member of a family with the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome for which a 2-base pair deletion in exon 11 of the mismatch repair gene MSH2 (c1705_1706 delGA) had been identified. Breast cancer is rare in the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome. Microsatellite analysis of the tumor showed a microsatellite instable pattern...
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