## BACKGROUND. The purpose of this investigation was to elucidate the clinicopathologic characteristics of BRCA1-and BRCA2-associated hereditary breast carcinomas (HBCs) in Japanese women.
High risk of contralateral breast carcinoma in women with hereditary/familial non-BRCA1/BRCA2 breast carcinoma
β Scribed by Katarina Shahedi; Monica Emanuelsson; Fredrik Wiklund; Henrik Gronberg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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