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Health Care Disparities in Hereditary Ovarian Cancer: Are We Reaching the Underserved Population?

Current treatment options in oncology - 1 Aug 2016

Randall Thomas C, Armstrong Katrina

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OPINION STATEMENT: Ovarian cancer is an uncommon but deadly disease. There is no effective screening for the disease, and the majority of women with ovarian cancer present in advanced stage and eventually die from their disease. The majority of families with multiple cases of breast and ovarian cancer are found to carry germline mutations in BRCA1/2. Recent, more sensitive sequencing techniques have shown that...

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PMID: 27315065
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-016-0417-1

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