Prophylactic bilateral mastectomy: Patterns of practice

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 236-242

  Metcalfe, Kelly A ^a   Goel, Vivek ^b   Lickley, Lavina ^c   Semple, John ^c   Narod, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

BRCA1; BRCA2; Breast cancer; Prevention; Preventive surgery; Prophylactic mastectomy

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASTECTOMY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SUBCUTANEOUS MASTECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE; MASTECTOMY, SUBCUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037099696     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10680     Document Type: Article

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