Article
[Chromosome aberrations in patients with papillary thyroid cancer and other neoplasms].
Przeglad lekarski - 1 Jan 1998
Konturek A, Barczyński M, Kostyk E, Parczewska J, Pietrzyk J J, Cichoń S, Gucwa J
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is essentially a genetic disease resulting from congenital or acquired alterations in some cells of the patient. Such changes may occur in particular oncogens and are responsible for the tumour phenotype of the affected population of cells. In contrast, unaltered tumour-suppressor genes are responsible for suppressing the neoplastic phenotype, and their inactivation by deletion or mutation permits...
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