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Accumulation of multipotent progenitors with a basal differentiation bias during aging of human mammary epithelia.
Cancer research - 15 Jul 2012
Garbe James C, Pepin Francois, Pelissier Fanny A, Sputova Klara, Fridriksdottir Agla J, Guo Diana E, Villadsen Rene, Park Morag, Petersen Ole W, Borowsky Alexander D, Stampfer Martha R, Labarge Mark A
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Women older than 50 years account for 75% of new breast cancer diagnoses, and the majority of these tumors are of a luminal subtype. Although age-associated changes, including endocrine profiles and alterations within the breast microenvironment, increase cancer risk, an understanding of the cell...
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