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    • Huzarski T, Byrski T, Gronwald J, Górski B, Domagala P, Cybulski C, Oszurek O, Szwiec M, Gugala K, Stawicka M, Morawiec Z, Mierzwa T, Janiszewska H, Kilar E, Marczyk E, Kozak-Klonowska B, Siolek M, Surdyka D, Wisniowski R, Posmyk M, Sun P, Lubinski J, Narod SA.
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    • Kraeima J, Siesling S, Vliegen IM, Klaase JM, Ijzerman MJ.
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    • Contralateral mastectomy improves survival in women with BRCA1/2-associated breast cancer.
    • Evans DG, Ingham SL, Baildam A, Ross GL, Lalloo F, Buchan I, Howell A.
    • Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Jul;140(1):135-42. doi: 10.1007/s10549-013-2583-1. Epub 2013 Jun 20.
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    • Kadouri L, Sagi M, Goldberg Y, Lerer I, Hamburger T, Peretz T.
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    • Mavaddat N, Peock S, Frost D, Ellis S, Platte R, Fineberg E, Evans DG, Izatt L, Eeles RA, Adlard J, Davidson R, Eccles D, Cole T, Cook J, Brewer C, Tischkowitz M, Douglas F, Hodgson S, Walker L, Porteous ME, Morrison PJ, Side LE, Kennedy MJ, Houghton C, Donaldson A, Rogers MT, Dorkins H, Miedzybrodzka Z, Gregory H, Eason J, Barwell J, McCann E, Murray A, Antoniou AC, Easton DF; EMBRACE.
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    • Triple-negative breast cancer: BRCAness and concordance of clinical features with BRCA1-mutation carriers.
    • Lips EH, Mulder L, Oonk A, van der Kolk LE, Hogervorst FB, Imholz AL, Wesseling J, Rodenhuis S, Nederlof PM.
    • Br J Cancer. 2013 May 28;108(10):2172-7. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2013.144. Epub 2013 Apr 4.
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    • Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 May;139(1):155-61. doi: 10.1007/s10549-013-2540-z. Epub 2013 Apr 25.
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    • Should all BRCA1 mutation carriers with stage I breast cancer receive chemotherapy?
    • Narod SA, Metcalfe K, Lynch HT, Ghadirian P, Robidoux A, Tung N, Gaughan E, Kim-Sing C, Olopade OI, Foulkes WD, Robson M, Offit K, Jakubowska A, Byrski T, Huzarski T, Sun P, Lubinski J.
    • Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Feb;138(1):273-9. doi: 10.1007/s10549-013-2429-x. Epub 2013 Feb 6.
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    • BRCA1 epigenetic inactivation predicts sensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy in breast and ovarian cancer.
    • Stefansson OA, Villanueva A, Vidal A, Martí L, Esteller M.
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    • Saltzman BS, Malone KE, McDougall JA, Daling JR, Li CI.
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    • Predicting breast cancer chemotherapeutic response using a novel tool for microarray data analysis.
    • Cheng J, Greshock J, Painter J, Lin X, Lee K, Zheng S, Menius A.
    • J Integr Bioinform. 2012 Aug 2;9(2):209. doi: 10.2390/biecoll-jib-2012-209.
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    • Cerne JZ, Zong L, Jelinek J, Hilsenbeck SG, Wang T, Oesterreich S, McGuire SE.
    • Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Aug;135(1):135-43. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2117-2. Epub 2012 Jun 16.
    • Increased risks of third primary cancers of non-breast origin among women with bilateral breast cancer.
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    • Br J Cancer. 2012 Jul 24;107(3):549-55. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2012.270. Epub 2012 Jun 19.
    • Germline mutations in the DNA damage response genes BRCA1, BRCA2, BARD1 and TP53 in patients with therapy related myeloid neoplasms.
    • Schulz E, Valentin A, Ulz P, Beham-Schmid C, Lind K, Rupp V, Lackner H, Wölfler A, Zebisch A, Olipitz W, Geigl J, Berghold A, Speicher MR, Sill H.
    • J Med Genet. 2012 Jul;49(7):422-8. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100674. Epub 2012 May 31.
    • Pathological complete response in younger and older breast cancer patients.
    • Kołacińska A, Chałubińska J, Błasińska-Morawiec M, Dowgier-Witczak I, Fendler W, Kordek R, Morawiec Z.
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    • Cancer Res. 2012 May 1;72(9):2350-61. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-4201. Epub 2012 Mar 6.
    • Breast cancers with compromised DNA repair exhibit selective sensitivity to elesclomol.
    • Alli E, Ford JM.
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    • Breast cancer prognosis is inherited independently of patient, tumor and treatment characteristics.
    • Verkooijen HM, Hartman M, Usel M, Benhamou S, Neyroud-Caspar I, Czene K, Vlastos G, Chappuis PO, Bouchardy C, Rapiti E.
    • Int J Cancer. 2012 May 1;130(9):2103-10. doi: 10.1002/ijc.26206. Epub 2011 Nov 17.
    • Enhanced RAD21 cohesin expression confers poor prognosis in BRCA2 and BRCAX, but not BRCA1 familial breast cancers.
    • Yan M, Xu H, Waddell N, Shield-Artin K, Haviv I; kConFab authors, McKay MJ, Fox SB.
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    • Rae JM, Drury S, Hayes DF, Stearns V, Thibert JN, Haynes BP, Salter J, Sestak I, Cuzick J, Dowsett M; ATAC trialists.
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    • Brough R, Bajrami I, Vatcheva R, Natrajan R, Reis-Filho JS, Lord CJ, Ashworth A.
    • EMBO J. 2012 Mar 7;31(5):1160-76. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2011.490. Epub 2012 Jan 31.
    • Clinical implications for BRCA gene mutation in breast cancer.
    • Xu J, Wang B, Zhang Y, Li R, Wang Y, Zhang S.
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    Subject: An Online BRCA Positive Decision Guidance Tool.

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