Relationship of patients' age to histopathological features of breast tumours in BRCA1 and BRCA2and mutation-negative breast cancer families

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INTRODUCTION: Our aim was to evaluate the relationship of patients' age to histopathological features of hereditary breast tumours in a series of breast cancer families not selected for age at diagnosis. In sporadic breast cancer, tumours from premenopausal patients have been shown to differ from those of postmenopausal patients, but this phenomenon has been little studied among familial patients. METHODS:...

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