B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal
Genetic Susceptibility due to Moderate Breast Cancer Risk Gene CHEK2: a case report
Authors: Kankuri-Tammilehto Minna
Publisher: JSciMedCentral
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Journal of Clinical Oncology and Research
Article number: 1065
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
eISSN: 2373-938X
Web address : https://www.jscimedcentral.com/Oncology/oncology-9-1065.pdf
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/68751544
Today we are increasingly interested in finding out the hereditary variants of moderate risk from a cancer patient. Multigene next generation sequencing (NGS) panel technology, massive parallel sequencing, can efficiently and economically analyze genes in 3 to 6 weeks. There are agreed criteria based on which to suspect hereditary breast cancer and thus to make a referral to clinical genetic unit. The topic research subject is to investigate the cancer risk associated with moderate risk genes. Appropriate follow-up recommendations for persons with moderate genetic susceptibility pathogenic variants to breast cancer are updated regularly as scientific research is published. This is a case report on two CHEK2 families in which pathogenic variant in CHEK2 gene does not alone explain the breast cancer risk of the patients. This is also a mini review of genetic susceptibility of CHEK2 moderate breast cancer gene.
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