Importance of Familial and inherited breast cancers in preventive paradigm.

parvin mehdipour — 2006-06-13T16:14:48Z

Many thanks for the valuable contribution to the breast cancer word.

You have written the following description in the Introduction:" ..other 90–95% is assumed to be 'sporadic', with no apparent family history. A large proportion of familial breast cancer (<40%) can be attributed to mutations in the high-risk genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 [1]".

My comment: the sporadic figure of 90%-95% doesn't indicate that the proband has no family history.There are many families in my database having 3-8 and 4-12 relatives affected with Breast cancer and other malignancies, respectively, who had no mutation in BRCA1&2.So, Familial BC is not representive of inherited BC. Many of our early onset probands with no family history could be positive ( i.e.,inherited, or new mutation)or negative for BRCA-genes.

Many thanks

Parvin Mehdipour

Parvin Mehdipour,MSc,PhD

Professor and Chief,

Unit of Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics,

And deputy of educational affair,

Department of Medical Genetics,

Faculty of Medicine,

Tehran University of Medical sciences,

Tehran 14155-6447

IR Iran

Email: mehdipor@sina.tums.ac.ir

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Importance of Familial and inherited breast cancers in preventive paradigm.