Decision analysis of prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy in BRCA1-positive or BRCA2-positive patients.
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Summary
Prophylactic surgery at a young age substantially improves survival, but unless genetic risk of cancer is high, provides no benefit for quality of life.
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- article
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- 1998-03-01
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Keywords
Medicine, Oophorectomy, Prophylactic Mastectomy, Mastectomy, Oncology
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