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Experience with Bilateral Risk-Reducing Mastectomy for an Unaffected BRCA Mutation Carrier
Women with BRCA1/2 mutations have a high risk of breast cancer and may opt for risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM). We report a 38-year-old Japanese woman who was diagnosed as a BRCA2 mutation carrier. She underwent prophylactic bilateral skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) with excision of the nipple and pres...
Autores principales: | Maeshima, Yurina, Oseto, Kumiko, Katsuragi, Ryohei, Yoshimoto, Yukiko, Takahara, Sachiko, Yamauchi, Akira |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Korean Breast Cancer Society
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4929266/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27382401 http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2016.19.2.218 |
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