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The BRCA1 syndrome and other inherited breast or breast-ovarian cancers in a Norwegian prospective series.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 May 2001
Møller P, Borg A, Heimdal K, Apold J, Vallon-Christersson J, Hovig E, Maehle L
Abstract excerpt
Inherited breast cancer is a heterogenous group of diseases. We examined this heterogeneity in a prospective series of inherited breast and ovarian cancers, previously demonstrated to include 84% of inherited cancers. Ninety-two tumours (65 breast and 27 ovarian) in 82 patients from 70 kindreds were prospectively diagnosed. Fifteen of the breast cancers were in situ, 50 were infiltrating. 40 (49%) of the 82 women...
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