abstract: Ovarian steroid cell tumor with biallelic adenomatous polyposis coli inactivation in a patient with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) Ovarian Cancer and Us OVARIAN CANCER and US Ovarian Cancer and Us

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

abstract: Ovarian steroid cell tumor with biallelic adenomatous polyposis coli inactivation in a patient with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)



"Our findings provide the first evidence that ovarian steroid cell tumors may be an extracolonic manifestation of FAP (familial adenomatous polyposis - colorectal cancer syndrome) and implicate β-catenin activation as an oncogenic mechanism in ovarian steroid cell tumorigenesis."

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