Pregnancy-associated breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutation carriers

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Volumn 352, Issue 9137, 1998, Pages 1359-1360

  Johannsson, Oskar ^a   Loman, Niklas ^b   Borg, Åke ^b   Olsson, Håkan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032564181     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)60750-7     Document Type: Article

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