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Risk of asynchronous contralateral breast cancer in noncarriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with a family history of breast cancer: a report from the Women's Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 Feb 2013
Reiner Anne S, John Esther M, Brooks Jennifer D, Lynch Charles F, Bernstein Leslie, Mellemkjær Lene, Malone Kathleen E, Knight Julia A, Capanu Marinela, Teraoka Sharon N, Concannon Patrick, Liang Xiaolin, Figueiredo Jane C, Smith Susan A, Stovall Marilyn, Pike Malcolm C, Haile Robert W, Thomas Duncan C, Begg Colin B, Bernstein Jonine L
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PURPOSE: To fully characterize the risk of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) in patients with breast cancer with a family history who test negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. PATIENTS AND METHODS: From our population-based case-control study comparing women with CBC to women with unilateral breast cancer (UBC), we selected women who tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations (594 patients with CBC/1,119...
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