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An audit of screening for familial breast cancer before 50 years in the South Thames Region - have we got it right?
Familial cancer - 1 Jan 2004
Murday Victoria, Pears R, Ball J, Eeles R, Hodgson S
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We have carried out an audit of breast screening by mammography under 50 years of age in a cohort of 192 women attending family cancer clinics run by the South Thames genetic services. Of these women, six came from families in which a BRCA mutation had been identified, 61 had > 50%, 35 a 20-50% and 90 had < 20% chance of carrying a high risk mutation. In the 192 women in the screened cohort, 9 breast cancers were...
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