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Early onset breast cancer in a registry-based sample of African-american women: BRCA mutation prevalence, and other personal and system-level clinical characteristics.
The breast journal - 1 Jan 2000
Pal Tuya, Bonner Devon, Kim Jongphil, Monteiro Alvaro N A, Kessler Lisa, Royer Robert, Narod Steven A, Vadaparampil Susan T
Abstract excerpt
Young Black women are disproportionately afflicted with breast cancer, a proportion of which may be due to BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA) gene mutations. In a sample of Black women with early onset breast cancer, we evaluated BRCA mutations and explored personal and system-level clinical characteristics....
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