Article
Molecular basis of breast cancer.
Saudi medical journal - 1 Jan 2006
Al-Mansouri Layla J, Alokail Majed S
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women and represents the second leading cause of cancer death among women after lung cancer. A common phenotypic abnormality of breast cancer cells is dysregulation of cell cycle control. The transformation of normal cell to a cancer cell appears to depend on mutation in genes that normally control cell cycle progression, thus leading to loss of the regulatory cell...
Topics
- Breast Neoplasms
- Disease Progression
- Female
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genes, cdc
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Oncogenes
- Phenotype
