Case 22-2007
- 19 July 2007
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 357 (3) , 283-291
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcpc079016
Abstract
A 38-year-old woman came to the Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics Clinic of this hospital because of a family history of breast and gastric cancer. Her mother had died of gastric cancer, and her maternal aunt had bilateral breast cancer and died of gastric cancer. Screening upper gastrointestinal endoscopy had been negative in the patient. A diagnostic procedure was performed.Keywords
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