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Male and female breast cancer: the two faces of the same genetic susceptibility coin.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jul 2021
Silva Susana Nunes, Gomes Bruno Costa, André Saudade, Félix Ana, Rodrigues António Sebastião, Rueff José
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BACKGROUND: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women. In contrast, male BC is about 100 times less common than in women, being considered a rare disease. Male BC may be a distinctive subtype of BC and available data seems to indicate that male BC has a higher dependence on genetic variants than female BC. Nevertheless, the same prognostic and predictive markers are used to determine optimal...
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