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WHILE observing the presence of characteristic particles in the milks and breast tumours of certain high-breast-cancer strains of mice1,2 and establishing the relationship between these particles and Bittner's milk factor3,4, we have been applying the same procedures to the study of comparable human material. A preliminary report was presented to the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland at Oxford in July 1949.
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PASSEY, R., DMOCHOWSKI, L., ASTBURY, W. et al. Electron Microscope Studies of Human Breast Cancer. Nature 167, 643–644 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167643a0
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