RE: Breast Cancer Risk after Salpingo-Oophorectomy in Healthy BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers: Revisiting the Evidence for Risk Reduction

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Chai, Xinglei ^a   Domchek, Susan ^b,c,d   Kauff, Noah ^e   Rebbeck, Timothy ^a,b,c   Chen, Jinbo ^a  

^a Biostatistics and Epidemiology   (United States)

^b Basser Center for BRCA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; GENETICS; OVARIECTOMY; SALPINGECTOMY;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; OVARIECTOMY; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SALPINGECTOMY;

EID: 84942250690     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djv217     Document Type: Letter

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