Breast Cancer after Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomy in Women with aBRCA1orBRCA2Mutation
Open Access
- 19 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 345 (3), 159-164
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200107193450301
Abstract
Women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation have a high risk of breast cancer and may choose to undergo prophylactic bilateral total mastectomy. We investigated the efficacy of this procedure in such women.Keywords
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