[Since majority of the early-stage human prostate cancers bear functional p53 gene (p53+/+), our findings indicate that the anticancer action of selenium may involve transactivation of p53 as a potential mechanism, and suggest that selenite may be useful not only for prevention but also for treatment of human prostate cancer.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE