The presentation of an asymptomatic ovarian carcinosarcoma caught by BRCA1 mutation surveillance program

Women with the BRCA1/2 mutations, which cause hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC), are 35–40 times more likely to develop ovarian cancer compared with the general population. We treated a patient in whom ovarian carcinosarcoma was identified during surveillance for HBOC. She had suffered fro...

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Veröffentlicht in:International cancer conference journal 2014-10, Vol.3 (4), p.242-246
Hauptverfasser: Abe, Akiko, Sakamoto, Kimihiko, Taniguchi, Tomoko, Nomura, Hidetaka, Yamamoto, Akiko, Okamoto, Sansiro, Omatsu, Kohei, Kato, Kazuyoshi, Arai, Masami, Takeshima, Nobuhiro
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