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Epidemiological and clinicopathological characteristics of BRCA-positive and BRCA-negative breast cancer patients in Greece.
Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Triantafyllidou Olga, Vlachos Ioannis S, Apostolou Paraskevi, Konstantopoulou Irene, Grivas Anastasios, Panopoulos Christos, Dimitrakakis Constantine, Kassanos Dimitrios, Loghis Constantine, Bramis Ioannis, Vlahos Nikolaos, Yannoukakos Drakoulis, Fostira Florentia
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: BRCA mutation carriers can benefit from targeted clinical interventions. On the other hand, families with evident aggregation of breast cancer (BC) cases and a BRCA-negative genetic test can still be considered as of elevated risk, since the underlying genetic factor remains unidentified. In the present study, we compared clinical and demographic characteristics between BRCA1 mutation carriers (BRCA1mut)...
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