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[Current clinical issues and recent trends in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in Japan-genetic testing for HBOC and risk-reducing surgery].
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2014
Arai Masami, Iwase Takuji, Takazawa Yutaka, Takeshima Nobuhiro
Abstract excerpt
The recognition of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) is gradually spreading in Japan after a famous American actress made it public that she underwent risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) based on mutation of BRCA1. HBOC is a cancer susceptibility syndrome involving breast, ovarian, or prostate cancers due to germline mutation of BRCA1 or BRCA2. Although the frequency is low, genomic rearrangement is also...
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