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- Title
Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
- Authors
Rhiem, Kerstin; Foth, Dolores; Wappenschmidt, Barbara; Gevensleben, Heidrun; Büttner, Reinhard; Ulrich, Uwe; Schmutzler, Rita K
- Abstract
Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) is often recommended to carriers of deleterious breast cancer gene 1/2 (BRCA1/2) mutations in order to reduce their breast cancer risk by 50% and their ovarian cancer risk by approximately 95%. To evaluate the acceptance, timing, histopathology findings and follow-up results we retrospectively analyzed a cohort of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers who underwent risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomies.
- Publication
Archives of gynecology and obstetrics, 2011, Vol 283, Issue 3, p623
- ISSN
1432-0711
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00404-010-1476-3