Familial Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment with respect to a Silent<i>BRCA2</i>mutation

Abstract excerpt

Male Breast Cancer (BC) is relatively rarer, accounting for less than 1% of cancers in men. MBC is hereditary in nature and mainly attributed to BRCA1/2 germline mutations. Accordingly, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines advise genetic counselling and testing for all cases of MBCs and their unaffected family members. In this report, we present an uncommon case of male patient primarily diagnos...

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• BRCA gene mutations in cancer
• BRCA1 Protein
• BRCA2 Protein
• Breast Neoplasms, Male
• Early Detection of Cancer
• Genetic Testing
• Male Breast Health Studies
• Neoplasms

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Literature Corpus work

3c775586-4ab1-5f36-ae5e-6e49983337a6

DOI

10.1101/2021.07.01.21258680