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Overestimation of hereditary breast cancer risk.

Annals of surgery - 1 Sept 1998

Iglehart J D, Miron A, Rimer B K, Winer E P, Berry D, Shildkraut M J

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OBJECTIVE: To find out how women with breast or ovarian cancer rate their chances of carrying hereditary factors for these cancers and to determine the extent to which they overestimate their risk. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that cause breast and ovarian cancer when they a...

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Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
BRCA2 Protein
Breast Neoplasms
Female
Genes, BRCA1
Heterozygote
Humans
Middle Aged
Mutation
Neoplasm Proteins
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

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PMID: 9742920
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199809000-00010
PMCID: PMC1191495

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BRCA1
BRCA2

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