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I Bièche1, C Noguès, S Rivoilan, A Khodja, A Latil, R Lidereau.
Abstract
To confirm several recent studies pointing to loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at BRCA2 as a prognostic factor in sporadic breast cancer, we examined this genetic alteration in a large series of human primary breast tumours for which long-term patient outcomes were known. LOH at BRCA2 correlated only with low oestrogen and progesterone receptor content. Univariate analysis of metastasis-free survival and overall survival (log-rank test) showed no link with BRCA2 status (P = 0.34, P = 0.29 respectively). LOH at BRCA2 does not therefore appear to be a major prognostic marker in sporadic breast cancer.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9400936 PMCID: PMC2228174 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.572
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Cancer ISSN: 0007-0920 Impact factor: 7.640