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- 2019
Different Patterns of Risk Reducing Decisions in Affected or Unaffected BRCA Pathogenic Variant CarriersDOI: 10.4143/crt.2018.079 Keywords: BRCA1, BRCA2, Familial breast cancer, Ovarian neoplasms, Prophylactic surgical procedure Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate decision patterns to reduce the risks of BRCArelated breast and gynecologic cancers in carriers of BRCA pathogenic variants. We found a change in risk-reducing (RR) management patterns after December 2012, when the National Health Insurance System (NHIS) of Korea began to pay for BRCA testing and riskreducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in pathogenic-variant carriers
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