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Survival of breast cancer patients in BRCA1, BRCA2, and non-BRCA1/2 breast cancer families: a relative survival analysis from Finland.
International journal of cancer - 1 Aug 2001
Eerola H, Vahteristo P, Sarantaus L, Kyyrönen P, Pyrhönen S, Blomqvist C, Pukkala E, Nevanlinna H, Sankila R
Abstract excerpt
Reports on the prognosis of familial breast cancer patients have been contradictory. True differences in survival, if they exist, would have important implications for genetic counselling and in treatment of hereditary breast cancer. We assessed the survival rates of 359 familial breast cancer patients (32 patients from BRCA1-positive families, 43 patients from BRCA2-positive families and 284 patients from...
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