The genetic attributable risk of breast and ovarian cancer

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Summary

The age‐specific proportion of breast and ovarian cancer in the general population that is likely to be due to a breast/ovarian cancer susceptibility gene(s) is estimated and the age-specific penetrance of ovarian cancer for women predicted to be carriers of a susceptibility gene is calculated using population‐based data.

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1996-06-01
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Keywords

Ovarian cancer, Breast cancer, Medicine, Oncology, Population

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