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Prophylactic mastectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: very low risk for subsequent breast cancer.
Annals of surgery - 1 Mar 2010
Kaas Reinoutje, Verhoef Senno, Wesseling Jelle, Rookus Matti A, Oldenburg Hester S A, Peeters Marie-Jeanne Vrancken, Rutgers Emiel J T
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AIM: To examine the outcome of prophylactic mastectomy in a hospital-based series of BRCA1/2 gene mutation carriers with and without a history of breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A center-based consecutive series of 254 BRCA1/2 gene mutation carriers that had prophylactic mastectomy after a n...
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