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Breast Cancer Risk For Female Relatives Of Male Breast Cancer Patients With Negative Brca1/2 Testing, Emily Martin
Breast Cancer Risk For Female Relatives Of Male Breast Cancer Patients With Negative Brca1/2 Testing, Emily Martin
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Risk models exist to estimate a female’s lifetime risk of breast cancer in the absence of a hereditary predisposition to cancer, namely Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer syndrome. These risk models consider various factors such as reproductive history and family history, but few models take a family history of male breast cancer into account. This study aims to evaluate if prevalence of breast cancer among female relatives is higher when there is a family history of male breast cancer in the context of uninformative BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing. This information may aid in the process of risk assessments for patients …