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Clinical and Pathological Features of Ovarian Cancer in Women with Germ-Line Mutations of<i>BRCA1</i>
7 Nov 1996
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BACKGROUND: We tested the hypothesis that ovarian cancers associated with germ-line mutations of BRCA1 have distinct clinical and pathological features as compared with sporadic ovarian cancers. METHODS: We reviewed clinical and pathological data on patients with primary epithelial ovarian cancer found to have germ-line mutations of BRCA1. Survival among patients with advanced-stage cancer and such mutations was...
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