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How do you counsel your PALB2 mutation positive breast cancer patients with regards to risk reducing surgery?
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Surgical Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
I counsel patients with PALB2 mutations that their lifetime risk of breast cancer approaches that of a BRCA2 carrier. There is some element of penetrance of the gene in a familial cohort so that the lifetime risk of breast cancer ranges from about 30% to almost 60% (Antoniou et al. NEJM 2014). Despi...