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Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy & surgical menopause for inherited risks of cancer: the need to identify biomarkers to assess the theoretical risk of premature coronary artery disease

BACKGROUND: Some women with genetic risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer (e.g., BRCA1/2) opt to undergo prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (PSO, or surgical removal of the ovaries & fallopian tubes) in order to reduce their risk of cancer. As a consequence, these women experience “surgical menop...

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Autores principales: Batulan, Zarah, Maarouf, Nadia, Shrivastava, Vipul, O’Brien, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30766717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40695-018-0037-y