Demographic and genetic characteristics of patients with borderline ovarian tumors as compared to early stage invasive ovarian cancer.

doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2005.02.022

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Demographic and genetic characteristics of patients with borderline ovarian tumors as compared to early stage invasive ovarian cancer.

Gynecologic oncology - 1 Jun 2005

Gotlieb Walter H, Chetrit Angela, Menczer Joseph, Hirsh-Yechezkel Galit, Lubin Flora, Friedman Eitan, Modan Baruch, Ben-Baruch Gilad

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OBJECTIVE: Evaluation whether Jewish founder mutations in BRCA predispose to borderline tumors as they do to early invasive ovarian cancers. METHODS: All Jewish women with borderline or invasive ovarian tumors, diagnosed over a 5-year period (1994-1999), were identified in the frame of a nationwide epidemiological study on ovarian cancer in Israel. Out of a total of 1489 patients, 1269 were interviewed; of them...

Topics

Adult
Age Factors
Female
Genes, BRCA1
Genes, BRCA2
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Germ-Line Mutation
Humans
Israel
Jews
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Neoplasm Staging
Ovarian Neoplasms

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PMID: 15893369
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2005.02.022

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BRCA1
BRCA2

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