Outcome of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA carriers and women of unknown mutation status

Manchanda, Ranjit; R. Abdelraheim, Ahmed; Johnson, Michelle; N. Rosenthal, Adam; Benjamin, Elizabeth; Brunell, C.; Burnell, Matthew; Side, Lucy; Gessler, Sue; Sarıdoğan, Ertan; Oram, D; Jacobs, Ian; Menon, Usha

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.02920.x

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Outcome of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA carriers and women of unknown mutation status

Published in BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology • Mar 10, 2011

Authors:

Ranjit Manchanda

Ahmed R. Abdelraheim

Michelle Johnson

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To compare surgical outcomes and occult cancer rates at risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA carriers and high-risk women who had not undergone genetic testing. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Tertiary high-risk familial gynaecological cancer clinic. POPULATION: Women un...

Subject

BRCA mutation

Medicine

Oncology

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