Using hair to screen for breast cancer

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6722, 1999, Pages 33-34

  James, Veronica ^a   Kearsley, John ^b   Irving, Tom ^c   Amemiya, Yoshiyuki ^d   Cookson, David ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL MEMBRANE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033522166     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17949     Document Type: Article

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