Coordinated prophylactic surgical management for women with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Women with <it>BRCA1 </it>or <it>BRCA2 </it>mutations have a substantially increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer compared with the general population. Therefore, prophylactic mastectomy (PM) and bilatera...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Cancer |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/8/101 |