Risk-reducing mastectomy in BRCA carriers: survival is not the issue

P Neven¹, K Punie², H Wildiers², N Willers², C Van Ongeval², G Van Buggenhout³, E Legius^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Multidisciplinary Breast Centre and Leuven University Centre for Cancer Prevention (LUCK), University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium. Patrick.neven@uzleuven.be.
² Multidisciplinary Breast Centre and Leuven University Centre for Cancer Prevention (LUCK), University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
³ Department of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.

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P Neven et al. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;179(1):251-252.

doi: 10.1007/s10549-019-05440-4. Epub 2019 Sep 20.

P Neven¹, K Punie², H Wildiers², N Willers², C Van Ongeval², G Van Buggenhout³, E Legius^{2

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¹ Multidisciplinary Breast Centre and Leuven University Centre for Cancer Prevention (LUCK), University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium. Patrick.neven@uzleuven.be.
² Multidisciplinary Breast Centre and Leuven University Centre for Cancer Prevention (LUCK), University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
³ Department of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.

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Risk-reducing mastectomy in BRCA mutation carriers: survival is one of the issues-author's reply.
Heemskerk-Gerritsen BAM, Hooning MJ. Heemskerk-Gerritsen BAM, et al. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jan;179(1):253-254. doi: 10.1007/s10549-019-05487-3. Epub 2019 Nov 6. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020. PMID: 31691881 No abstract available.

Survival after bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy in healthy BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
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