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Absence of premalignant histologic, molecular, or cell biologic alterations in prophylactic oophorectomy specimens fromBRCA1 heterozygotes
15 Jul 2000
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BACKGROUND: The high mortality associated with ovarian carcinoma is largely a reflection of the inability to diagnose the disease at an early stage; the identification of a histologic lesion or molecular marker associated early stages of transformation would represent an important advance in understanding the natural history of this cancer. The existence of individuals with germline mutations in the ovarian and...
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