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Incidence of contralateral and ipsilateral breast cancers and prognosis in BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant carriers based on the Japanese HBOC Consortium registration.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 2021
Yoshimura Akiyo, Yokoyama Shiro, Iwata Hiroji, Takaiso Nobue, Nomizu Tadashi, Arai Masami, Nakamura Seigo
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This study aimed to clarify the breast cancer prognosis in Japanese patients with BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant. We analyzed 2235 women with breast cancer who underwent BRCA1/2 genetic testing between 1996 and 2018 using data from the Japanese hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome registry. The cumulative risk for contralateral and ipsilateral breast cancers and time to death since the first breast cancer...
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