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| Palmero,Edenir Inêz; Alemar,Bárbara; Schüler-Faccini,Lavínia; Hainaut,Pierre; Moreira-Filho,Carlos Alberto; Ewald,Ingrid Petroni; Santos,Patricia Koehler dos; Ribeiro,Patricia Lisbôa Izetti; Oliveira Netto,Cristina Brinkmann de; Calvez-Kelm,Florence Le; Tavtigian,Sean; Cossio,Silvia Liliana; Giugliani,Roberto; Caleffi,Maira; Ashton-Prolla,Patricia. |
| Abstract In Brazil, breast cancer is a public health care problem due to its high incidence and mortality rates. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of hereditary breast cancer syndromes (HBCS) in a population-based cohort in Brazils southernmost capital, Porto Alegre. All participants answered a questionnaire about family history (FH) of breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer and those with a positive FH were invited for genetic cancer risk assessment (GCRA). If pedigree analysis was suggestive of HBCS, genetic testing of the BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, and CHEK2 genes was offered. Of 902 women submitted to GCRA, 214 had pedigrees suggestive of HBCS. Fifty of them underwent genetic testing: 18 and 40 for BRCA1/BRCA2 and TP53 mutation screening,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Breast cancer predisposition syndrome; Hereditary breast cancer; Genetic cancer risk assessment. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572016000200210 |
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