Attitudes of female staff and students from two United Kingdom Medical Schools towards donating normal healthy breast tissue and blood samples for biomedical research

Harriet Wilson; Valerie Speirs

doi:10.1007/s10549-017-4459-2

Attitudes of female staff and students from two United Kingdom Medical Schools towards donating normal healthy breast tissue and blood samples for biomedical research

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By 2030, more than 1.2 million women could be living with, or after a breast cancer diagnosis, and around 185,000 lives could be lost to the disease. To investigate and fully understand the biological changes involved in breast cancer initiation, requires studying normal human breast tissue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	651-652
Number of pages	2
Journal	Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
Volume	166
Issue number	2
Early online date	18 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-017-4459-2
Publication status	Published - Nov 2017

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Attitudes of female staff and students from two United Kingdom Medical Schools towards donating normal healthy breast tissue and blood samples for biomedical research

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