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A Genetic Study of Human Breast Cancer
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This article is published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.The article was published on 1972-04-01. It has received 140 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Breast cancer & Cancer.read more
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Differentiation of the mammary gland and susceptibility to carcinogenesis
TL;DR: Induction of mammary cancer in rats by administration of the chemical carcinogen 7, 12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene reveals that the same factors influencing human breast cancer risk also affect the susceptibility of the rat mammary gland to the chemicalcar carcinogen.
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Breast Cancer Epidemiology
TL;DR: Other areas of current research reviewed here include radiation, mammographic parenchymal patterns, a high-fat diet, use of oral contraceptives (OCs), use of estrogen replacement therapy, and endogenous hormones, which do not appear promising as potential etiologic agents.
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Allele loss on short arm of chromosome 17 in breast cancers.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the highest frequency of allele loss (61%) was found with the probe YNZ22, which detects a sequence on the short arm of chromosome 17 (at p13.3).
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Effect of Family History, Body-Fat Distribution, and Reproductive Factors on the Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
Thomas A. Sellers,Lawrence H. Kushi,John D. Potter,Susan A. Kaye,Christine L. Nelson,Paul G. McGovern,Aaron R. Folsom +6 more
TL;DR: The combined effect of family history and anthropometric and reproductive factors on the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women and the waist-to-hip ratio was examined to determine whether known risk factors for breast cancer are modified by a reported family history at the time of entry into the study.
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Family History and the Risk of Breast Cancer
Richard W. Sattin,George L. Rubin,Linda A. Webster,Carlos M. Huezo,Phyllis A. Wingo,Howard W. Ory,Peter M. Layde +6 more
TL;DR: The risk of breast cancer for a woman was higher if her first-degree relative had unilateral rather than bilateral breast cancer or had breast cancer detected at a younger rather than older age.