Genetic counselling and testing for inherited gene mutations in newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer: a review of the existing literature and a proposed research agenda.

Abstract excerpt

Many women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and with a strong family history of breast cancer are referred to a family cancer service for genetic counselling and for consideration of genetic testing for germline mutations in cancer predisposition genes following completion of their cancer treatment. However, there is growing evidence that mutation status may influence treatment recommendations, and that there...

Topics

• Breast Neoplasms
• Female
• Genes
• Genetic Counseling
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Genetic Testing
• Humans
• Mutation