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Histopathology of familial ovarian tumors in women from families with and without germline BRCA1 mutations.
Human pathology - 1 Nov 2000
Werness B A, Ramus S J, Whittemore A S, Garlinghouse-Jones K, Oakley-Girvan I, Dicioccio R A, Tsukada Y, Ponder B A, Piver M S
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancers from patients with germline BRCA1 mutations show characteristic histopathologic features. However, similar studies of BRCA1-associated ovarian cancers have reported inconsistent findings. Interobserver differences in histopathologic classification are a significant source of variation, and most studies have obtained histopathologic information from pathology reports rather than from review of...
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