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Different Patterns of Risk Reducing Decisions in Affected or Unaffected BRCA Pathogenic Variant Carriers.
Cancer research and treatment - 1 Jan 2019
Lee Eun-Gyeong, Kang Hyok Jo, Lim Myong Cheol, Park Boyoung, Park Soo Jin, Jung So-Youn, Lee Seeyoun, Kang Han-Sung, Park Sang-Yoon, Park Boram, Joo Jungnam, Han Jai Hong, Kong Sun-Young, Lee Eun Sook
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate decision patterns to reduce the risks of BRCArelated breast and gynecologic cancers in carriers of BRCA pathogenic variants. We found a change in risk-reducing (RR) management patterns after December 2012, when the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) of Korea began to pay for BRCA testing and riskreducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in pathogenic-variant...
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