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A novel germline TP53 mutation p.Pro190Arg detected in a patient with lung and bilateral breast cancers.
Advances in medical sciences - 1 Sept 2017
Krześniak Małgorzata, Butkiewicz Dorota, Rachtan Jadwiga, Matuszczyk Iwona, Grzybowska Ewa, Rusin Marek
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is a rare genetic disease with strong predispositions to multiple early-onset neoplasms, mostly sarcomas, breast cancers, brain tumors and adrenocortical carcinomas (LFS core cancers). In most LFS families the germline mutations of TP53 tumor suppressor gene were found. Lung cancer does not belong to the core cancers of LFS, however its higher incidence is observed in families...
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