Coordinated prophylactic surgical management for women with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome

BACKGROUND: Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations have a substantially increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer compared with the general population. Therefore, prophylactic mastectomy (PM) and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) have been proposed as risk-reduction strategies for BRCA1/2 mutatio...

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Main Authors: Batista, Larissa I, Lu, Karen H, Beahm, Elisabeth K, Arun, Banu K, Bodurka, Diane C, Meric-Bernstam, Funda
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362122/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18410690
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-8-101
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