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Severe reaction to radiotherapy provoked by hypomorphic germline mutations in ATM (ataxia-telangiectasia mutated gene).
Molecular genetics & genomic medicine - 1 Oct 2020
Asadollahi Reza, Britschgi Christian, Joset Pascal, Oneda Beatrice, Schindler Detlev, Meier Urs R, Rauch Anita
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BACKGROUND: A minority of breast cancer (BC) patients suffer from severe reaction to adjuvant radiotherapy (RT). Although deficient DNA double-strand break repair is considered the main basis for the reactions, pretreatment identification of high-risk patients has been challenging. METHODS: To retrospectively determine the etiology of severe local reaction to RT in a 39-year-old woman with BC, we performed...
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