Beyond BRCA: Genetic testing for gynaecological cancers in South Africa.

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BACKGROUND: Hereditary cancer syndromes, caused by pathogenic variants in specific genes, substantially increase an individual's risk for cancer, and are estimated to cause 10% of all uterine cancers and 20% of all ovarian cancers. However, these data are primarily based on high-income countries, and to date there are no published data on the known pathogenic variants or testing of cancer predisposition genes...

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