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The post-reproductive Fallopian tube: better removed?
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Nov 2011
Dietl J, Wischhusen J, Häusler S F M
Abstract excerpt
Recently, the distal Fallopian tube has attracted considerable attention not only as site of origin for serous cancer in women with BRCA mutations, but also as the anatomical location where the majority of serous ovarian cancers apparently develop. Consequently, the Fallopian tube may be the unique location where early 'ovarian' cancers can be found--which would contradict the long-standing impression that the...
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