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Clinical implication of E-cadherin deficiency in lobular breast cancer

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This manuscript was supported by the Italian Ministry of Health (Project Code: GR-2016-02361655. “Understanding how CDH1 germline mutations affect hereditary lobular breast cancer”).

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  1. Division of Breast Surgery, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, via G. Ripamonti 435, 20141, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Corso, Viviana Galimberti & Paolo Veronesi

  2. Department of Oncology and Onco-Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Corso, Gabriella Pravettoni & Paolo Veronesi

  3. Applied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Gabriella Pravettoni

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Corso, G., Pravettoni, G., Galimberti, V. et al. Clinical implication of E-cadherin deficiency in lobular breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 173, 751–752 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-5051-0

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