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Breast cancer in a BRCA2 mutation carrier with a history of prostate cancer

Abstract

This case study discusses a patient initially diagnosed with high-risk prostate cancer who underwent androgen deprivation therapy. The patient subsequently presented with ductal carcinomain situ and was found to be a BRCA2mutation carrier with a strong family history of breast cancer.

Authors

Panchal S; Shachar O; O'Malley F; Crystal P; Escallon J; Crook J; Bane A; Bordeleau L

Journal

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 604–607

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

October 14, 2009

DOI

10.1038/nrclinonc.2009.116

ISSN

1759-4774
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