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Repetitive demand for radical cancer risk reduction surgery in a young BRCA1 mutation carrier with strong family history of BRCA linked malignancies.
Ginekologia polska - 1 Jul 2006
Zubor Pavol, Kajo Karol, Dussan Carlos Alberto, Szunyogh Norbert, Galo Silvester, Danko Jan
Abstract excerpt
It is known that BRCA genes play central roles in hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. BRCA1 mutation carriers face a cumulative lifetime risk of ovarian and breast cancer development. We report on a case of a strong family prevalence of BRCA1 linked malignancies as an immense psychological encumbrance and reason of demand for radical prophylactic risk decreasing surgeries in a 29 year-old healthy woman with...
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