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Surgical Management of Hereditary Breast Cancer.
Genes - 31 Aug 2021
Berger Elizabeth R, Golshan Mehra
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The identification that breast cancer is hereditary was first described in the nineteenth century. With the identification of the BRCA1 and BRCA 2 breast/ovarian cancer susceptibility genes in the mid-1990s and the introduction of genetic testing, significant advancements have been made in tailoring surveillance, guiding decisions on medical or surgical risk reduction and cancer treatments for genetic variant...
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