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Candidate serous cancer precursors in fallopian tube epithelium of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Sept 2009
Shaw Patricia A, Rouzbahman Marjan, Pizer Ellen S, Pintilie Melania, Begley Heather
Abstract excerpt
Occult invasive and intraepithelial carcinomas have been identified in the tubal fimbria of BRCA mutation carriers undergoing prophylactic surgery, and recently described lesions overexpressing p53 in the distal tubes of mutation carriers, and non-carriers, have been proposed as histological precursors of high-grade serous carcinoma. The aim of this study was to confirm these findings in a larger, independent...
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