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Understanding breast cancer genetics /

Health & Sickness -- Consumer Health -- & . This book by a scientist whose background is in cellular and molecular biology examines the fearsome disease that strikes one in eight women in the United States. Although women are more likely to die of heart disease or of lung cancer, a diagnosis...

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Main Author: Zimmerman, Barbara T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Subjects:
Breast > Cancer > Genetic aspects.
Breast > Cancer > Popular works.
Breast Neoplasms
Breast Neoplasms > genetics
Popular Work
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781417507900
141750790X
9781604730449
1604730447
1282485113
9781282485112
9786612485114
6612485116
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Who gets breast cancer?
  • What is breast cancer?
  • The roles of genes versus inheritance
  • The roles of BRCA1, BRCA2, and other cancer genes
  • Issues in prevention and control of breast cancer.

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