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Timely cancer genetic counseling and testing for young women with breast cancer: impact on surgical decision-making for contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Jul 2022
Sanoba Shenin A, Thull Darcy L, McAuliffe Priscilla F, Steiman Jennifer G, Johnson Ronald R, Diego Emilia J, Mai Phuong L
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PURPOSE: Genetic testing (GT) can identify individuals with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) in breast cancer (BC) predisposition genes, who may consider contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy (CRRM). We report on CRRM rates in young women newly diagnosed with BC who received GT through a multidisciplinary clinic. METHODS: Clinical data were reviewed for patients seen between November 2014 and June...
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