Breast-cancer risk in BRCA-mutation-negative women from BRCA-mutation-positive families

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1042-1043

  Katki, Hormuzd A ^a   Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Greene, Mark H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; ODDS RATIO; PEDIGREE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 36549058247     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(07)70348-0     Document Type: Letter

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