Women with ovarian cancer who have a mutated form of the BRCA2 gene may be more likely to respond to standard chemotherapy and have better overall and progression-free survival than women without the mutation, according to a new study published October 12 in JAMA. The findings also suggested that women with BRCA1 mutations had better overall and progression-free survival than women whose tumors lacked the mutations, but these latter findings were not statistically significant.
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