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Frequent co-occurrence of mutator phenotype in synchronous, independent multiple cancers of the stomach.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Dec 1995
Shinmura K, Sugimura H, Naito Y, Shields P G, Kino I
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of multiple independent primary cancer of the stomach is high in Japanese. We hypothesized that individuals with multiple, independent gastric cancers might have a greater genetic susceptibility than persons with solitary gastric cancer at the time of diagnosis. We therefore determined the frequency of mutator phenotypes in 20 persons with independent multiple gastric cancers and 42 persons with...
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