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A prospective investigation of predictive and modifiable risk factors for breast cancer in unaffected BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene carriers

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide. The lifetime risk of a woman being diagnosed with breast cancer is approximately 12.5%. For women who carry the deleterious mutation in either of the BRCA genes, BRCA1 or BRCA2, the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer is s...

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Autores principales: Guinan, Emer M, Hussey, Juliette, McGarrigle, Sarah A, Healy, Laura A, O’Sullivan, Jacintha N, Bennett, Kathleen, Connolly, Elizabeth M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3618255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23517070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-138