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Screening of women at high risk for breast cancer.
Preventive medicine - 1 Sept 2011
Narod Steven A
Abstract excerpt
A woman may be at high risk of breast cancer because of a strong family history of breast cancer or because she carries a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. The annual risk for women in this category is between 1% and 2% and the lifetime risk of breast cancer among gene carriers may approach 80%. Several recent trials have reported that the sensitivity of MRI for imaging breast cancer greatly exceeds that of...
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