Breast cancer in Iraq is associated with a unimodally distributed predominance of luminal type B over luminal type A surrogates from young to old age

Breast cancer in Iraq is associated with a unimodally distributed predominance of luminal type B over luminal type A surrogates from young to old age

Abstract Background Breast cancer has recently increased in post-menopausal Iraqi women. In Western countries at high-risk for breast cancer, there is a bimodal increase in estrogen receptor (ER) positive tumors with a peak of low proliferation rate luminal A over higher proliferation rate luminal B...

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Main Authors: Runnak A Majid, Hemin A Hassan, Dana N Muhealdeen, Hazha A Mohammed, Michael D Hughson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:BMC Women's Health
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Iraq
Cancer incidence
Breast cancer receptors
Luminal A and luminal B breast cancer
Middle-East
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12905-017-0376-0

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