Familial Breast Cancer
Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47648-1_2107
Definition
Familial clustering of breast cancer due to inherited germ line mutations in breast-cancer risk genes, BRCA1, BRCA2, and probably in additional genes that so far have no been identified.
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