We report a case in which breast cancer was diagnosed at an early stage during surveillance for cancer-free HBOC at the patient's own expense, and risk-reducing surgery was performed at the same time as treatment for breast cancer. Case presentation: The patient wa...
Another cohort study compared survival after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) and total mastectomy between BRCA1/2-mutated BC and non-mutated BC, with 8396 Chinese BC patients (187 BRCA1-mutated, 304 BRCA2-mutated, and 7905 non-mutated) included in the study [62]. Within a median follow-up...
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Preventative strategies available to BRCA2 mutation carriers include intensive surveillance, chemoprophylaxis with tamoxifen, bilateral mastectomy, and bilateral salphingo-oophorectomy ▪ Current treatment modalities for incident cases do not differ for age- and stage-matched sporadic breast cancer cases;...
Decision analysis of prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy in BRCA1-positive or BRCA2-positive patients. Young Ashkenazi Jewish women or those from high-risk families who test positive for BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutant genes have a significant risk of developing breas... VR Grann,KS Panageas,W Whan...
Decision analysis of prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy in BRCA1-positive or BRCA2-positive patients. J Clin Oncol.1998;16:979-985.Google Scholar 13. Tengs TO, Winer EP, Paddock S, Aguilar-Chavez O, Berry DA. Testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility genes...
R. et al. Bilateral prophylactic mastectomy reduces breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: the PROSE Study Group. J. Clin. Oncol. 22, 1055–1062 (2004). PubMed Google Scholar Liede, A. & Narod, S. A. Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in Asia: genetic ...
Let me back things up here a bit and remind you that I chose to split my various medical procedures up. I opted to have a double mastectomy as well as my tubes and ovaries removed (you can read more in “I’m Too Sexy For My Genes“). I underwent the double mastectomy and reconstr...
Decision analysis of prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy in BRCA1-positive or BRCA2-positive patients. J Clin Oncol 1998;16:979 –985. 43. Grann VR, Jacobson JS, Whang W, et al. Prevention with tamoxifen or other hormones versus prophylactic surgery in BRCA1/2-positive women: a de- ...
After her mastectomy, my mom's genetictest came back positive for BRCA2, a hereditary gene variant that increases the likelihood of various cancers, especially breast and ovarian. I decided to wait until I was age 21 years to get genetically tested, because doing nothing was easier than doing...