High rate of occult cancer found in prophylactic mastectomy specimens despite thorough presurgical assessment with MRI and ultrasound: findings from the Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Registration 2016 in Japan

PURPOSE: Prophylactic surgery is a preemptive strategy for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). Prophylactic mastectomy (PM) reduces breast cancer risk by > 90%. The aim of our study is to analyze the information of the Japanese pedigrees and to utilize the results for clinical practice....

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Autores principales: Yamauchi, Hideko, Okawa, Megumi, Yokoyama, Shiro, Nakagawa, Chizuko, Yoshida, Reiko, Suzuki, Koyu, Nakamura, Seigo, Arai, Masami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2018
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30203341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4953-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30203341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4953-1

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