Gynaecological cancers in genetically su
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Ui-Soon Khoo; Dan-Hua Shen; Richard Wing-Cheuk Wong; Annie Nga-Yin Cheung
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier
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English
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Women may be genetically susceptible to development of gynecological cancers. Major familial ovarian cancer syndromes include site-specific ovarian cancer, breast/ovarian cancer, and hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC). The former two syndromes are linked to BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes while DNA