Cellular Oncology (Jan 2009)

Prognostic Relevance of Promoter Hypermethylation of Multiple Genes in Breast Cancer Patients

  • Gayatri Sharma,
  • Sameer Mirza,
  • Yi-Hsin Yang,
  • Rajinder Parshad,
  • Priya Hazrah,
  • Siddartha Datta Gupta,
  • Ranju Ralhan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/CLO-2009-0507
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 6
pp. 487 – 500

Abstract

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Background: Methylation-mediated suppression of detoxification, DNA repair and tumor suppressor genes has been implicated in cancer development. This study was designed to investigate the impact of concurrent methylation of multiple genes in breast tumors on disease prognosis.