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Contralateral breast cancer risk is influenced by the age at onset in BRCA1-associated breast cancer.
British journal of cancer - 1 Aug 2000
Verhoog L C, Brekelmans C T, Seynaeve C, Meijers-Heijboer E J, Klijn J G
Abstract excerpt
BRCA1/2 mutation carriers diagnosed with breast cancer have a strongly elevated life-time risk of developing a contralateral tumour. We studied the contralateral breast cancer risk in 164 patients from 83 families with a proven BRCA1 mutation in relation to the age at diagnosis of the first primary breast cancer. In the actuarial outcomes after 10 years' follow-up, 40% of the 124 BRCA1-patients diagnosed with...
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