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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 alteration showed a correlation with (1) a negative ER status, (2) a negative PgR status, and (3) a high histologic grade...
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