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Familial ovarian cancer
1Department of Gynaecology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine
|July 13, 1994
Abstract:
Two or more epithelial ovarian cancers in close relatives, or ovarian cancer in conjunction with young-onset breast or colonic cancers, are suggestive of an inherited predisposition. Women in such families may have a 30-40% lifetime risk of developing ovarian cancer.