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Familial Cancer

Issue 2/2023

Content (12 Articles)

Genetic Counseling Original Article

Barriers to completion of cascade genetic testing: how can we improve the uptake of testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome?

Ryan Matthew Kahn, Muhammad Danyal Ahsan, Eloise Chapman-Davis, Kevin Holcomb, Roni Nitecki, Jose Alejandro Rauh-Hain, Rana Khan Fowlkes, Francesca Tubito, Maira Pires, Paul J Christos, Kaitlyn Tkachuk, Hannah Krinsky, Ravi N. Sharaf, Kenneth Offit, Steven Lipkin, Melissa K. Frey

Breast Cancer Original Article

A pilot study investigating feasibility of mainstreaming germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing in high-risk patients with breast and/or ovarian cancer in three tertiary Cancer Centres in Ireland

Terri Patricia McVeigh, Karl J. Sweeney, Donal J. Brennan, Una M. McVeigh, Simon Ward, Ann Strydom, Sheila Seal, Katherine Astbury, Paul Donnellan, Joanne Higgins, Maccon Keane, Michael J. Kerin, Carmel Malone, Pauline McGough, Ray McLaughlin, Michael O’Leary, Margaret Rushe, Michael Kevin Barry, Geraldine MacGregor, Michael Sugrue, Ala Yousif, Dhafir Al-Azawi, Eileen Berkeley, Terence J. Boyle, Elizabeth M. Connolly, Carmel Nolan, Elaine Richardson, Claire Giffney, Samantha B. Doyle, Sheila Broderick, William Boyd, Ruaidhri McVey, Thomas Walsh, Michael Farrell, David J. Gallagher, Nazneen Rahman, Angela J. George

Open Access Breast Cancer Short Communication

Identifying the BRCA1 c.-107A > T variant in Dutch patients with a tumor BRCA1 promoter hypermethylation

Vincent M. T. de Jong, Roelof Pruntel, Tessa G. Steenbruggen, Fonnet E. Bleeker, Petra Nederlof, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Sabine C. linn

Open Access Original Article

Determinants of adherence to recommendations on physical activity, red and processed meat intake, and body weight among lynch syndrome patients

M Hoedjes, A Vrieling, L de Brauwer, A Visser, E Gómez García, N Hoogerbrugge, E Kampman

Open Access Melanoma Review

Characterization of sebaceous and non-sebaceous cutaneous manifestations in patients with lynch syndrome: a systematic review

Shahram Aziz, Hazel O’Sullivan, Kara Heelan, Afrina Alam, Terri P. McVeigh

Open Access Pathology Original Article

Laboratory variation in the grading of dysplasia of duodenal adenomas in familial adenomatous polyposis patients

E. Soons, P. D. Siersema, L. M. A. van Lierop, T. M. Bisseling, M. C. A. van Kouwen, I. D. Nagtegaal, R. S. van der Post, F. Atsma

Gastric Cancer Short Communication

CDH1 mutations recurrence and global clustering in genetically tested families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer syndrome: results from a systematic study

Giovanni Corso, Valentina Tagliaferri, Giulia Massari, Antonio Cioffi, Elisabetta Maria Cristina Rossi, Paolo Veronesi, Francesca Magnoni

Open Access Choroidal Melanoma Original Article

Analysis of uveal melanomas and paired constitutional DNA for exclusion of a BAP1-tumor predisposition syndrome

Yasaman Arjmand Abbassi, Claudia Le Guin, Norbert Bornfeld, Nikolaos E. Bechrakis, Michael Zeschnigk, Dietmar R. Lohmann

Original Article

Disclosure of genetic risk to dating partners among young adults with von Hippel-Lindau disease

Elysa Bond, Beverly Yashar, Tobias Else, Jenae Osborne, Monica Marvin

Original Article

A need to tailor surveillance based on family history: describing a highly penetrant familial paraganglioma kindred with an SDHD pathogenic variant

Madeline Foley, Anu Sharma, Kinley Garfield, Luke Maese, Luke Buchmann, Julie Boyle, Wendy Kohlmann, Joanne Jeter, Samantha Greenberg

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