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Panel Testing for Familial Breast Cancer: Calibrating the Tension Between Research and Clinical Care.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 May 2016
Thompson Ella R, Rowley Simone M, Li Na, McInerny Simone, Devereux Lisa, Wong-Brown Michelle W, Trainer Alison H, Mitchell Gillian, Scott Rodney J, James Paul A, Campbell Ian G
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PURPOSE: Gene panel sequencing is revolutionizing germline risk assessment for hereditary breast cancer. Despite scant evidence supporting the role of many of these genes in breast cancer predisposition, results are often reported to families as the definitive explanation for their family history. We assessed the frequency of mutations in 18 genes included in hereditary breast cancer panels among index cases from...
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