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Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA mutation carriers: role of serial sectioning in the detection of occult malignancy.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 Jan 2005
Powell C Bethan, Kenley Eric, Chen Lee-May, Crawford Beth, McLennan Jane, Zaloudek Charles, Komaromy Miriam, Beattie Mary, Ziegler John
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PURPOSE: Women who carry deleterious mutations of BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes have up to a 54% lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer. After childbearing, women at high risk increasingly choose bilateral risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO). Two recent studies of BRCA mutation carriers reporte...
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