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Systemic therapy options in BRCA mutation-associated breast cancer.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Sept 2012
Bayraktar Soley, Glück Stefan
Abstract excerpt
BRCA mutation-associated breast cancers are characterized by deficient homologous recombination of DNA, and 80 % of BRCA1-associated breast cancers display the basal-like molecular subtype. Traditionally, BRCA carriers have received conventional systemic chemotherapy based on their baseline tumor characteristics, and it is generally accepted that after the appropriate treatment the prognosis of a mutation carrier...
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