Breast cancer, genetics, and age at first pregnancy.
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Breast cancer, genetics, and age at first pregnancy.
Hereditary breast cancer shows a distinctive natural history characterised by an earlier age of onset, excess bilaterality, vertical transmission, heterogeneous tumour associations, and improved survival when compared to its sporadic counterpart. To date, very little attention has been given to interrelationships between breast cancer risk factors and genetics. In the general population, early ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Genetics
سال: 1984
ISSN: 1468-6244
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.21.2.96