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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2009
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2009 101(2):69; doi:10.1093/jnci/djp002
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Meta-analysis Confirms Value of Risk-Reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy for Women with BRCA Mutations

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Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy—removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes--reduces the relative risk of breast cancer by approximately 50 percent and the risk of ovarian and fallopian tube cancer by approximately 80 percent in women who carry a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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