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Coordinated prophylactic surgical management for women with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome.
BMC cancer - 14 Apr 2008
Batista Larissa I, Lu Karen H, Beahm Elisabeth K, Arun Banu K, Bodurka Diane C, Meric-Bernstam Funda
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BACKGROUND: Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations have a substantially increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer compared with the general population. Therefore, prophylactic mastectomy (PM) and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) have been proposed as risk-reduction strategies for BRCA1/2 muta...
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