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Down's Syndrome and Triple Negative Breast Cancer: A Rare Occurrence of Distinctive Clinical Relationship.
International journal of molecular sciences - 7 Jun 2017
Dey Nandini, Krie Amy, Klein Jessica, Williams Kirstin, McMillan Amanda, Elsey Rachel, Sun Yuliang, Williams Casey, De Pradip, Leyland-Jones Brian
Abstract excerpt
Down's syndrome (DS), the most common genetic cause of significant intellectual disability in children and adults is caused by the trisomy of either all or a part of human chromosome 21 (HSA21). Patients with DS mostly suffer from characteristic tumor types. Although individual patients of DS are at a higher risk for acute leukemia and testicular cancers, other types of solid tumors including breast cancers are...
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