BRCA1/2-related ovarian cancers are of tubal origin: A hypothesis [1]

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 491-

  Piek, Jurgen M J ^a   Verheijen, René H M ^a   Kenemans, Peter ^a   Massuger, Leon F ^b   Bulten, Hans ^b   Van Diest, Paul J ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Pathology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL PROLIFERATION; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; DYSPLASIA; EPITHELIUM; FIMBRIA; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; NEOPLASM; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA;

EID: 0043125582     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-8258(03)00365-2     Document Type: Letter

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