2017
DOI: 10.24875/ric.17002225
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Molecular Biology In Young Women With Breast Cancer: From Tumor Gene Expression To Dna Mutations

Abstract: Young women with breast cancer (YWBC) represent roughly 15% of breast cancer (BC) cases in Latin America and other developing regions. Breast tumors occurring at an early age are more aggressive and have an overall worse prognosis compared to breast tumors in postmenopausal women. The expression of relevant proliferation biomarkers such as endocrine receptors and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 appears to be unique in YWBC. Moreover, histopathological, molecular, genetic, and genomic studies have show… Show more

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“…Age is confirmed as an independent prognostic variable for locoregional-free interval, distant metastasis-free interval and breast cancer specific survival (3)(4)(5)(6). Among women diagnosed with breast cancer during 1996-2000, 44.2% were aged 65 or more years and only 2% were <35 years (7), although the latter incidence may be higher in specific ethnic groups (8). Compared to elderly, postmenopausal patients, young breast cancer patients more often have a family history of malignancy, deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1/2 and other highly penetrant cancer predisposing genes, such as TP53, and they also present with more aggressive disease: poorly differentiated, HER2-positive or triple negative (TNBC) tumors (9).…”
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“…Age is confirmed as an independent prognostic variable for locoregional-free interval, distant metastasis-free interval and breast cancer specific survival (3)(4)(5)(6). Among women diagnosed with breast cancer during 1996-2000, 44.2% were aged 65 or more years and only 2% were <35 years (7), although the latter incidence may be higher in specific ethnic groups (8). Compared to elderly, postmenopausal patients, young breast cancer patients more often have a family history of malignancy, deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1/2 and other highly penetrant cancer predisposing genes, such as TP53, and they also present with more aggressive disease: poorly differentiated, HER2-positive or triple negative (TNBC) tumors (9).…”
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“…However, the underlying mechanisms need to be further investigated. Our results also suggested that polymorphisms in CLDN1 might help us to identify subtypes of TNBC, as TNBC patients with different age and grade were proved to have unique molecular features [32,43].…”
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“…DNA repair genes display high mutation incidence in cancer, when DNA repair pathways are compromised, mutation rate arises because alternative error-prone repair pathways are used by the cell [11,132]. The study of the repair pathway mechanisms has identified new targets for therapy that might be useful in some types of cancer.…”
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“…About 50–60% of cases of HBC show variants in BRCA1/2 genes. The remaining percentage involves moderate and low penetrance variants in non-BRCA genes [11]. Next generation sequencing (NGS) and other technologies are still identifying variants in genes associated with breast cancer.…”
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confidence: 99%