Association Between BRCA Status and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

• Main Authors: Haixia Chen (Author), Jianming Wu (Author), Zhihong Zhang (Author), Yong Tang (Author), Xiaoxuan Li (Author), Shuangqing Liu (Author), Shousong Cao (Author), Xianzhu Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of aggressive breast cancer and characterized by a lack of the expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. BRCA genes are tumor-suppressor genes that are involved in DNA damage repair and mutat...