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Genetic testing for breast cancer in the Hispanic community
Author(s) -
Narod Steven A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.32334
Subject(s) - palb2 , medicine , breast cancer , genetic testing , cancer , mutation , oncology , gene , genetics , germline mutation , biology
Approximately 1 in 10 Hispanic women with breast cancer carry a mutation in a cancer susceptibility gene; approximately one half of these mutations are in genes other than BRCA1 and BRCA2 . Genetic testing for Hispanic patients with breast cancer should be extended to include PALB2 .