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Risk of ovarian cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation-negative hereditary breast cancer families.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 21 Sept 2005
Kauff Noah D, Mitra Nandita, Robson Mark E, Hurley Karen E, Chuai Shaokun, Goldfrank Deborah, Wadsworth Eve, Lee Johanna, Cigler Tessa, Borgen Patrick I, Norton Larry, Barakat Richard R, Offit Kenneth
Abstract excerpt
Women from site-specific hereditary breast cancer families who carry a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation are at increased risk for ovarian cancer. It is less clear, however, whether individuals from hereditary breast cancer families who do not carry such a mutation are also at increased ovarian cancer risk. To determine whether women from BRCA mutation-negative hereditary breast cancer families are at increased risk for...
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