Breast and ovarian surgery reduces cancer risk in women at high risk

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doi:10.1136/bmj.o258

Breast and ovarian surgery reduces cancer risk in women at high risk

Helen Saul & Gareth Evans et al. · 2022-02-15

The study

Marcinkute R, Woodward ER, Gandhi A, et al. Uptake and efficacy of bilateral risk reducing surgery in unaffected female BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. J Med Genet 2021;0:1-8.

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Links

DOI PubMed

Journal

BMJ

Authors

Helen Saul, Deniz Gursul, Samantha Cassidy, Gareth Evans