Are viruses associated with human breast cancer? Scrutinizing the molecular evidence

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Joshi, Deepti ^a   Buehring, Gertrude Case ^b  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epstein Barr virus; Human papillomavirus; Molecular evidence; Mouse mammary tumor virus like sequences

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; WART VIRUS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE;

EID: 84856044238     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1921-4     Document Type: Review

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