Article
p53 alteration correlates with negative ER, negative PgR, and high histologic grade in breast cancer.
Journal of surgical oncology - 1 May 1994
Sasa M, Kondo K, Komaki K, Morimoto T, Monden Y
Abstract excerpt
Seventy tumors of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast were examined for p53 alteration by the RT-PCR-SSCP method. Sixty-five samples (92.9%) were investigated in the regions of codons 101-200 and 201-300. In total, 16 samples (24.6%) showed p53 gene alteration. We found that p53 gene alterati...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Breast Neoplasms
- Female
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Receptors, Estrogen
