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Pathology of familial breast cancer: differences between breast cancers in carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and sporadic cases. Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium.
Lancet (London, England) - 24 May 1997
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BACKGROUND: A few breast cancer cases are attributable to a hereditary predisposition to the disease. We aimed to compare the histological features of breast cancer in women carrying mutations in the susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 with controls unselected for family history. METHODS: The morphological characteristics of specimens from 440 patients with familial breast cancer, including 118 in carriers of...
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