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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zimmerman, Barbara T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2004.
Series:Understanding health and sickness series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.