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Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in breast cancer patients from Brazil.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jul 2007
Gomes Magda C B, Costa Mauricio M, Borojevic Radovan, Monteiro Alvaro N A, Vieira Roberto, Koifman Sergio, Koifman Rosalina Jorge, Li Song, Royer Robert, Zhang Shiyu, Narod Steven A
Abstract excerpt
The contribution of BRCA1 and BRCA2 to breast cancer incidence in Brazil has not yet been explored. In order to estimate the proportion of breast cancers due to BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in Brazil, we conducted a study of unselected breast cancer patients from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We enrolled 402 women with breast cancer from a large public hospital and two private medical clinics in the city. A detailed...
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