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Friday, January 22, 2010

Risk Assessment and Genetic Testing for Ovarian Cancer

"CONCLUSION. To offer potentially life-saving interventions for at-risk family members, we propose that every woman newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer be offered genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes because mutations in these genes are the strongest known predictors of ovarian cancer risk."

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