Breast cancer in Iraq is associated with a unimodally distributed predominance of luminal type B over luminal type A surrogates from young to old age

• Main Authors: Runnak A Majid (Author), Hemin A Hassan (Author), Dana N Muhealdeen (Author), Hazha A Mohammed (Author), Michael D Hughson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Breast cancer has recently increased in post-menopausal Iraqi women. In Western countries at high-risk for breast cancer, there is a bimodal increase in estrogen receptor (ER) positive tumors with a peak of low proliferation rate luminal A over higher proliferation rate luminal B...