Cancer Findings Boost Case for Surgery: BRCA Carriers Who Had Ovaries Removed Had Undetected Tumors From: Forward | Date: August 18, 2000 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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08-18-2000

Cancer Findings Boost Case for Surgery: BRCA Carriers Who Had Ovaries
Removed Had Undetected Tumors

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New findings are strengthening significantly the case for ovary removal
based on the test for the BRCA gene, the mutation found among Ashkenazic
Jewish women that correlates with much higher rates of breast and ovarian
cancer.

Doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York r...

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