Breast cancer - not just whether but when?

Authors
Citation
D. Easton, Breast cancer - not just whether but when?, NAT GENET, 26(4), 2000, pp. 390-391
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Molecular Biology & Genetics
Journal title
NATURE GENETICS
ISSN journal
10614036 → ACNP
Volume
26
Issue
4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
390 - 391
Database
ISI
SICI code
1061-4036(200012)26:4<390:BC-NJW>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Women with breast cancer suffer a high constant risk of a cancer in the opp osite breast. A new hypothesis to explain this observation is that a woman' s risk of breast cancer starts from a genetically determined age.