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ArticleJournal of breast cancer2016

Experience with Bilateral Risk-Reducing Mastectomy for an Unaffected BRCA Mutation Carrier.

Yurina Maeshima, Kumiko Oseto, Ryohei Katsuragi, Yukiko Yoshimoto, Sachiko Takahara, Akira Yamauchi

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Article in Journal of breast cancer, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yurina MaeshimaDepartment of Breast Surgery, Kitano Hospital Breast Center, The Tazuke Kohukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
Kumiko OsetoDepartment of Breast Surgery, Kitano Hospital Breast Center, The Tazuke Kohukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
Ryohei KatsuragiDepartment of Breast Surgery, Kitano Hospital Breast Center, The Tazuke Kohukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
Yukiko YoshimotoDepartment of Breast Surgery, Kitano Hospital Breast Center, The Tazuke Kohukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
Sachiko TakaharaDepartment of Breast Surgery, Kitano Hospital Breast Center, The Tazuke Kohukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
Akira YamauchiDepartment of Breast Surgery, Kitano Hospital Breast Center, The Tazuke Kohukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Women with BRCA1/2 mutations have a high risk of breast cancer and may opt for risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM). We report a 38-year-old Japanese woman who was diagnosed as a BRCA2 mutation carrier. She underwent prophylactic bilateral skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) with excision of the nipple and preservation of the areola skin. It is unclear whether a bilateral RRM leads to better survival compared with intensive surveillance. The oncological risk associated with the presence of remnant breast glandular tissue after SSM or nipple-sparing mastectomy has been obscure. We report the first case of RRM for a Japanese BRCA mutation carrier and provide a literature review on risk management for BRCA mutation carriers with a focus on the concepts and procedures of RRM.

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BRCA2GenesProphylactic surgical procedureSubcutaneous mastectomy

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PMID27382401
PMCPMC4929266

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