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Frequent basal cell cancer development is a clinical marker for inherited cancer susceptibility.
JCI insight - 9 Aug 2018
Cho Hyunje G, Kuo Karen Y, Li Shufeng, Bailey Irene, Aasi Sumaira, Chang Anne Lynn S, Oro Anthony E, Tang Jean Y, Sarin Kavita Y
Abstract excerpt
Innate DNA repair mechanisms play a critical role in protecting skin keratinocytes from UV mutagenesis and skin cancer development. We hypothesized that individuals who develop frequent skin cancers may harbor germline defects in DNA repair genes and have increased predisposition to internal malignancies. We enrolled 61 patients with unusually frequent basal cell carcinoma (BCC) development, seen at Stanford...
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