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• Breast cancer after prophylactic bilateral mastectomy in women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.

  Meijers-Heijboer H, van Geel B, van Putten WL, Henzen-Logmans SC, Seynaeve C, Menke-Pluymers MB, Bartels CC, Verhoog LC, van den Ouweland AM, Niermeijer MF, Brekelmans CT, Klijn JG. Meijers-Heijboer H, et al. N Engl J Med. 2001 Jul 19;345(3):159-64. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200107193450301. N Engl J Med. 2001. PMID: 11463009
• Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.

  Kauff ND, Satagopan JM, Robson ME, Scheuer L, Hensley M, Hudis CA, Ellis NA, Boyd J, Borgen PI, Barakat RR, Norton L, Castiel M, Nafa K, Offit K. Kauff ND, et al. N Engl J Med. 2002 May 23;346(21):1609-15. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa020119. Epub 2002 May 20. N Engl J Med. 2002. PMID: 12023992