BT-20 cells were isolated in 1958 from a breast tumor of a 74-year-old, White, female breast cancer patient. This breast tumor line was established by E.Y. Lasfargues and L. Ozzello in 1958 by isolation and cultivation of cells spilling out of the tumor when it was cut in thin slices.
isolate
BT-20 cells were isolated in 1958 from a breast tumor of a 74-year-old, White, female breast cancer patient.
age
74
biomaterial_provider
ATCC #HTB-19
sex
female
tissue
Breast; Mammary gland
cell_line
BT-20
disease
TNBC;Carcinoma
karyotype
Normal chromosomes N3, N4, N9, N13, N14, and X may be absent. The markers der(11)t(11;?)(q25;?) (M1); der(1)t(1;3)(p22?;p13?) (M2); and der(2)t(2;?) (q37;?) (M5) were detected by W.A. Nelson-Rees, et al., Int. J. Cancer 16: 74-85, 1975.
race
White/European American
Replicate
BT20 MP Rep2
BioSampleModel
Human