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Experience of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy for a BRCA1 mutation carrier and establishment of a system performing a preventive surgery for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome in Japan: our challenges for the future.
Japanese journal of clinical oncology - 1 May 2013
Hirasawa Akira, Masuda Kenta, Akahane Tomoko, Tsuruta Tomohiko, Banno Kouji, Makita Kazuya, Susumu Nobuyuki, Jinno Hiromitsu, Kitagawa Yuko, Sugano Kokichi, Kosaki Kenjiro, Aoki Daisuke
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy is currently regarded as the most certain primary method for preventing ovarian cancer among BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome. However, risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy has rarely been performed in Japan. METHODS: We developed the first system in Japan for performing risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy for BRCA1/2...
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