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[The clinical importance of a genetic analysis of moderate-risk cancer susceptibility genes in breast and other cancer patients from the Czech Republic].
Klinicka onkologie : casopis Ceske a Slovenske onkologicke spolecnosti - 1 Jan 2012
Pohlreich P, Kleibl Z, Kleiblová P, Janatová M, Soukupová J, Macháčková E, Házová J, Vašíčková P, Sťahlová Hrabincová E, Navrátilová M, Svoboda M, Foretová L
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BACKGROUND: Analysis of the major breast cancer (BC) predisposition genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 enables identification of high-risk individuals. Specialized programs enrolling the carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations facilitate an improvement in prevention and early diagnostics in asymptomatic individuals and rationalize the selection of individualized treatment in case of a BC onset. However, the carriers of mutations in the...
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