References & Sources  -  September 19, 1998

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A test of risk in a "benign" disease

An excess of a protein called p53 in breast tissue of women with benign breast disease indicates an increased risk of cancer.

 

References:

Rohan, T.E., et al. 1998. Immunohistochemical detection of c-erbB-2 and p53 in benign breast disease and breast cancer risk. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 90(Sept. 2):1262.

 

Sources:

Thomas E. Rohan
University of Toronto
Department of Public Health Sciences
McMurrich Building, 3rd Floor
12 Queen’s Park Crescent West
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
Canada

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 12, September 19, 1998, p. 188.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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