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Strategies for ovarian cancer prevention.
Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America - 1 Dec 2007
Dann Rebecca Byler, Kelley Joseph L, Zorn Kristin K
Abstract excerpt
Women who have documented BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations have a significantly increased lifetime risk of ovarian and breast malignancies. Many women, however, have a perceived personal risk of ovarian cancer despite a calculated low risk, and some seek ways to reduce the risk for ovarian cancer. Given the low prevalence of ovarian cancer in the general population, no screening test has achieved satisfactory levels of...
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