Risk of Breast and Ovarian Cancer After Prophylactic Mastectomy and Salpingo-Oophorectomy in BRCA1/2 Germline Variant Carriers: A Retrospective Cohort Study From a Single German Center.

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BACKGROUND: As the data on BRCA1/2-associated breast and ovarian cancer prevalence after prophylactic surgery has not been exhaustively investigated yet, we aimed to evaluate the cancer prevalence in a single center cohort of BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers after conducting prophylactic mastectomy, as well as prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (PBSO) respectively. METHODS: We included 875 women that were...

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