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Thus, unlike in the colon, loss of TGF-β response may be a very early event in the development of human breast cancer.
And for some cancers there was a familial association with other cancers, for example, relatives of individuals with stomach, colon, rectal, or endometrial cancer were more likely to have any of these cancers.
And, interestingly, three cancers—stomach, lung, and colon cancer—were also seen more frequently in mates of patients, indicating a shared environmental risk factor.
Conversely, introduction of full-length BRCA1 by retrovirus-mediated gene transfer inhibited growth of breast and ovarian cancer cell lines in both in vitro and in vivo experiments [ 51], and transfection of BRCA1 into colon cancer cells inhibited new DNA synthesis by 50% in addition to inhibition of S-phase progression, possibly through direct transactivation of the cell cycle inhibitor p21 WAF1/CIP1[ 49].
Cross sections of the descending colon were scores for number of cells in a crypt column from crypt base to mouth.