Breast Cancer Risk Variants

Interviews and expert commentary tagged “Breast Cancer Risk Variants” — the latest oncology research and clinical practice from the Audio Journal of Oncology.

Double Mastectomy: No Survival Gain for BRCA2 Mutation Carriers—AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Audio Journal of Oncology

Double Mastectomy: No Survival Gain for BRCA2 Mutation Carriers—AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY

BARCELONA—Healthy women with BRCA1 mutations who opted for bilateral prophylactic mastectomy had their lives prolonged in comparison with similar women who did not. But in healthy women with the BRCA2

30 March 2018
5:00
Polygenic Risk Scores Could Help Predict Second Primary Breast Cancers—AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Audio Journal of Oncology

Polygenic Risk Scores Could Help Predict Second Primary Breast Cancers—AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY

BARCELONA—Patients treated for BRCA-associated breast cancers could be given more accurate estimates of the risk for developing second primaries of the contralateral breast by combining polygenic risk

28 March 2018
4 mins 30 secs