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sults for the different outcomes is not easily explained. There were excesses in distant recurrences and second primary malignancies (non-breast cancer) in the nonpregnancy group (eTable 1 in Supplement 2 of the article). There was also an excess of contralateral cancers in the pregnancy group. Patients with oophorectomy were not excluded from the analysis. In our previous studies, we have seen a benefit of oophorectomy on breast cancer survival in BRCA carriers. [2][3][4] However, Lambertini and colleagues did not report the effect of oophorectomy. The clinical relevance of the effect of oophorectomy is pertinent to young BRCA carriers recently diagnosed with breast cancer who may be choosing between pregnancy and salpingo-oophorectomy.