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Association of family risk and lifestyle/comorbidities in ovarian cancer patients.
Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) - 1 Jan 2000
Teixeira Natália, Folgueira Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike, Maistro Simone, Encinas Giselly, Bock Geertruida Hendrika de, Diz Maria Del Pilar Estevez
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: to analyze factors that might indicate familial predisposition for ovarian cancer in patients diagnosed with this disease. METHODS: in a prospective single center cohort study at the Institute of Cancer of the State of São Paulo (ICESP), 51 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer were included. Familial predisposition for ovarian cancer was defined as having a higher than 10% chance of having a BRCA1/2...
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