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Tumor-Specific Oncogene
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Cancer(s) It Is Linked To
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erb-B2
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Breast cancer
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RAS (also called HRAS)
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Several types of cancer. In roughly one-third of all cancers, the RAS gene is mutated so that it tells cells to grow.
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MYC
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Burkitt’s lymphoma (a rare type of lymphoma that mostly affects children in central Africa but that has been seen in other places).
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BCR-ABL
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Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
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PI3-K
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Ovarian cancer
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AkT
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Ovarian, breast, and pancreatic cancers
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β-catenin
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Colon cancer, melanoma
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CDKN2
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Malignant melanoma
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