N.E. Kushlinskii – Dr.Sc. (Med.), Professor, Member-Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences, 

N.N. Blokhin National Medical Cancer Research Center (Moscow)

E.I. Alekseeva – Post-Graduate Student, N.N. Blokhin National Medical Cancer Research Center (Moscow)

A.V. Ivanov – Ph.D. (Biol.), Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology (Moscow)

E.A. Avilova – Ph.D. (Med.), N.N. Blokhin National Medical Cancer Research Center (Moscow)

E.S. Gershtein – Dr.Sc. (Biol.), Professor, N.N. Blokhin National Medical Cancer Research Center (Moscow) A.A. Kubatiev – Dr.Sc. (Med.), Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences,  Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology (Moscow)

This review describes the role of metabolic pathways (methionine cycle and transsulfuration) in mammary gland carcinogenesis, as well as the prospects of cysteine and homocysteine application in clinical and laboratory diagnostics of breast cancer.

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