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Association Between <emph type="ital">BRCA1</emph> and <emph type="ital">BRCA2</emph> Mutations and Survival in Women With Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
24 Jan 2012
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CONTEXT: Approximately 10% of women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) carry deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2. A recent article suggested that BRCA2-related EOC was associated with an improved prognosis, but the effect of BRCA1 remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the survival of BRCA carriers with EOC compared with noncarriers and to determine whether BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers...
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