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BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in Breast Cancer Families with Multiple Primary Cancers¹

Departments of Medicine [H. A. S., K. L. N., B. L. W.] and Genetics [K. L. N., B. L. W.], University of Pennsylvania, and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology [T. R. R.], University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, and Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom [S. S., N. C., M. R. S.]

ABSTRACT

Ninety-eight women ascertained from high-risk breast/ovarian cancer clinics with breast cancer reporting at least one other primary cancer in themselves or in a relative with breast cancer were compared with 99 women with breast cancer who reported a family history of breast cancer only. All DNA was screened for coding region mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 using heteroduplex analysis, followed by direct sequencing.

Our data indicate that 42.9% of families reporting breast and any second nonbreast type of primary cancer in the same individual had a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, as compared with the 12.1% of families reporting breast cancer only (P < 0.001). Among the 66 women reporting breast cancer and a nonovarian second primary cancer, 15 (22.7%) had mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (P = 0.04). Among the 32 families where ovarian cancer was the second primary cancer, 27 (84.4%) had a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (P < 0.001).

BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations were twice as common in the presence of a reported second nonovarian cancer. These data suggest that the presence of multiple primary cancer of any kind may predict for an increased likelihood of finding a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation and supports previous studies suggesting that BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations may be associated with an increased susceptibility to cancers other than breast and ovarian cancer.

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