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Clinicopathologic features of BRCA-linked and sporadic ovarian cancer.
JAMA - 3 May 2000
Boyd J, Sonoda Y, Federici M G, Bogomolniy F, Rhei E, Maresco D L, Saigo P E, Almadrones L A, Barakat R R, Brown C L, Chi D S, Curtin J P, Poynor E A, Hoskins W J
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CONTEXT: Most hereditary ovarian cancers are associated with germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2. Attempts to define the clinical significance of BRCA mutation status in ovarian cancer have produced conflicting results, especially regarding survival. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hereditary ovarian cancers have distinct clinical and pathological features compared with sporadic (nonhereditary) ovarian cancers....
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