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Survival and contralateral breast cancer in CHEK2 1100delC breast cancer patients: impact of adjuvant chemotherapy.
British journal of cancer - 26 Aug 2014
Kriege M, Hollestelle A, Jager A, Huijts P E A, Berns E M, Sieuwerts A M, Meijer-van Gelder M E, Collée J M, Devilee P, Hooning M J, Martens J W M, Seynaeve C
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BACKGROUND: We assessed the sensitivity to adjuvant chemotherapy in cell cycle checkpoint kinase 2 (CHEK2) vs non-CHEK2 breast cancer patients by comparing the contralateral breast cancer incidence and distant disease-free and breast cancer-specific survival between both groups, stratified for adjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS: One Dutch hereditary non-BRCA1/2 breast cancer patient cohort (n=1220) and two Dutch...
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