Despite the high prevalence of acne, there is still much deficiency of knowledge and wrong beliefs about acne. This indicates that there is an urgent need for education about etiopathogenesis, potential complications and importance of effective treatment for acne. Effective treatment may make significant contributions for the mental health of adolescent and as well as adult populations.

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Our findings show that inactivation of suppressor genes, expression of oncogenes, loss of differentiation, augmentation of proliferative activity, metastatic potential, angiogenesis and hormone receptor status are all interrelated facets of breast cancer pathogenesis. Patients with tumors overexpressing c-erbB-2 or with bigger or higher-grade tumors probably need to be more carefully evaluated for the presence of distant metastasis, thus be better staged, at presentation. This may be a new reason to test c-erbB-2 routinely in all patients with breast cancer in addition to its well-known prognostic and predictive uses.

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