Article
p53 mutation and tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Oct 1995
Elledge R M, Lock-Lim S, Allred D C, Hilsenbeck S G, Cordner L
Abstract excerpt
A substantial portion of patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer fail to respond to estrogen depletion or to the antiestrogen tamoxifen. The molecular changes that lead to tamoxifen resistance and estrogen-independent growth are unknown. To test the hypothesis that a p53 mutation c...
Topics
- Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
- Breast Neoplasms
- Cell Division
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Female
- Genes, p53
- Genetic Vectors
- Humans
- Mutation
- Tamoxifen
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
