MYC and breast cancer: HCV-infected BC women were associated with significant high levels of mutant p53 (22.5 ± 3.5; 1.9-fold increase) and c-Myc (21.4 ± 1.8; 1.5-fold increase) proteins than non-infected women (11.7 ± 3.6 and 14.6 ± 1.7, respectively), as shown in Fig. 2.