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Early-Onset Ovarian Cancer <30 Years: What Do We Know about Its Genetic Predisposition?
International journal of molecular sciences - 30 Nov 2023
Horackova Klara, Janatova Marketa, Kleiblova Petra, Kleibl Zdenek, Soukupova Jana
Abstract excerpt
Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in women. Most patients are diagnosed with advanced epithelial OC in their late 60s, and early-onset adult OC diagnosed ≤30 years is rare, accounting for less than 5% of all OC cases. The most significant risk factor for OC development are germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (GPVs) in OC predisposition genes (including BRCA1,...
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