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Outcome of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA carriers and women of unknown mutation status.
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology - 1 Jun 2011
Manchanda R, Abdelraheim A, Johnson M, Rosenthal A N, Benjamin E, Brunell C, Burnell M, Side L, Gessler S, Saridogan E, Oram D, Jacobs I, Menon U
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OBJECTIVE: To compare surgical outcomes and occult cancer rates at risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA carriers and high-risk women who had not undergone genetic testing. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Tertiary high-risk familial gynaecological cancer clinic. POPULATION: Women undergoing risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy between January 2005 and November 2009. METHODS: Women at high-risk of...
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