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Molecular characteristics and prognostic features of breast cancer in Nigerian compared with UK women.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Sept 2012
Agboola A J, Musa A A, Wanangwa N, Abdel-Fatah T, Nolan C C, Ayoade B A, Oyebadejo T Y, Banjo A A, Deji-Agboola A M, Rakha E A, Green A R, Ellis I O
Abstract excerpt
Although breast cancer (BC) incidence is lower in African-American women compared with White-American, in African countries such as Nigeria, BC is a common disease. Nigerian women have a higher risk for early-onset, with a high mortality rate from BC, prompting speculation that risk factors could be genetic and the molecular portrait of these tumours are different to those of western women. In this study, 308 BC...
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