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Full Issue: The International Undergraduate Journal Of Health Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2021
Full Issue: The International Undergraduate Journal Of Health Sciences, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2021
International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences
The full June 2021 issue (Volume 1, Issue 1) of the International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences
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 …