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Article: Genetic Links Found for Inflammatory Breast Cancer.
- Article from:
- Gene Therapy Weekly
- Article date:
- September 27, 1999
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(CW HENDERSON PUBLISHER www.newsfile.com) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, have identified two genes that may control the development of inflammatory breast cancer - an aggressive, often lethal, form of the disease.
The discovery, published in the September 1999 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, is the first report of genetic markers associated with inflammatory breast cancer.
"Only six percent of the 180,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year have inflammatory breast cancer, but they have the least chance of survival," said Sofia D. Merajver, PhD, MD, an associate professor of ...