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Prevention and genetic testing for breast cancer: variations in medical decisions.

Social science & medicine (1982) - 1 Mar 2004

Bouchard Louise, Blancquaert I, Eisinger F, Foulkes W D, Evans G, Sobol H, Julian-Reynier C

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The discovery linking the genes BRCA1&2 to familial breast cancer played an important role in the clinical practice of geneticists and physicians. The availability of genetic tests for BRCA gene mutations prompted cancer geneticists to give information about genetic risk and to assess many women...

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PMID: 14723904
DOI: 10.1016/s0277-9536(03)00263-6

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