Breast and Ovarian Cancer
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- 5 June 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 348 (23) , 2339-2347
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra012284
Abstract
Despite years of intensive study and substantial progress in understanding susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer, these diseases remain important causes of death in women. However, several recent critical advances — sequencing of the human genome and the development of high-throughput techniques for identifying DNA-sequence variants, changes in copy numbers, and global expression profiles — have dramatically accelerated the pace of research aimed at preventing and curing these diseases. We review some of the important discoveries in the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer, ongoing studies to isolate additional susceptibility genes, and early work on molecular profiling involving microarrays.Keywords
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