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Breast Cancer after Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomy in Women with a<i>BRCA1</i>or<i>BRCA2</i>Mutation

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2001

Year

Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Bert van Geel, Wim L.J. van Putten, Sonja C. Henzen‐Logmans, Caroline Seynaeve, Marian B. E. Menke‐Pluymers, Carina C. M. Bartels, Leon C. Verhoog, Ans M.W. van den Ouweland, Martinus F. Niermeijer,
New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

In women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, prophylactic bilateral total mastectomy reduces the incidence of breast cancer at three years of follow-up.

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