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Defining etiologic heterogeneity in breast cancer using genetic biomarkers.
Progress in clinical and biological research - 1 Jan 1997
Rebbeck T R, Walker A H, Phelan C M, Godwin A K, Buetow K H, Garber J E, Narod S A, Weber B L
Abstract excerpt
Most breast cancer has a complex, multifactorial etiology. One consequence of this multifactorial phenomenon is that etiological heterogeneity may exist. This heterogeneity implies simply that two or more groups of breast cancer cases in the general population may have been caused by different sets of events. The ability to define etiologically heterogeneous subgroups in the population may facilitate a number of...
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