Hereditary cancers: from discovery to intervention.

Article

Hereditary cancers: from discovery to intervention.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs - 1 Jan 1995

Knudson A G

Abstract excerpt

This conference concerned hereditary cancers of the breast, ovary, and colon, which are the common, often fatal, cancers with the greatest heritability in their causation. Four genes whose mutations impart dominantly heritable predisposition to one or more of these cancers have been cloned and on...

Topics

Breast Neoplasms
Colonic Neoplasms
Female
Humans
Mutation
Oncogenes
Ovarian Neoplasms
Pedigree
Risk Factors

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