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High prevalence and predominance of BRCA1 germline mutations in Pakistani triple-negative breast cancer patients.
BMC cancer - 23 Aug 2016
Rashid Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Noor, Bajwa Seerat, Faisal Saima, Tahseen Muhammad, Bermejo Justo Lorenzo, Amin Asim, Loya Asif, Hamann Ute
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Women harboring BRCA1/2 germline mutations have high lifetime risk of developing breast/ovarian cancer. The recommendation to pursue BRCA1/2 testing is based on patient's family history of breast/ovarian cancer, age of disease-onset and/or pathologic parameters of breast tumors. Here, we investigated if diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) independently increases risk of carrying a...
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