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Alterations of the retinoblastoma gene in metastatic breast cancer.
Clinical & experimental metastasis - 1 Mar 2011
Berge Elisabet Ognedal, Knappskog Stian, Lillehaug Johan Richard, Lønning Per Eystein
Abstract excerpt
Germline mutations affecting the retinoblastoma gene (RB1) predispose to inherited retinoblastomas but also other malignancies, including breast cancer. While somatic RB1 mutations have been detected in different malignancies, information about the potential role of RB1 mutations in breast cancer is limited. Recently, we discovered RB1 mutations to be associated with resistance to anthracyclines/mitomycin in...
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