Incidence of breast cancer in Indian women is not as high as in Western countries, nonetheless age-adjusted incidence rates (AAR) have risen from 17.9 to 24.9 per 100,000 from 1965 to 1985. Although these rates are still approximately one quarter to one third of incidence rates in North America and
Study of mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA 2 gene among the breast cancer patients in eastern indian population
β Scribed by Abhijit Chakraborty; Deboshree Bhattacharyya (Majumdar); Jayasri Basak; Ashis Mukhopadhyay
- Book ID
- 113507497
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-9776
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