Postmenopausal women with breast cancer are [as likely] ... to carry inherited breast-cancer mutations that can inform treatment.
Postmenopausal women with breast cancer are as likely as Ashkenazi Jewish women to carry inherited breast-cancer mutations that can inform treatment, a Stanford study found. About 1 in 40 postmenopausal women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 65 have cancer-associated mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine....
The finding is the first to suggest that postmenopausal women who have been newly diagnosed with breast cancer but who don’t have any hereditary risk factors, such as close family members diagnosed with breast cancer before age 50, may still benefit from genetic testing for inherited cancer-associated mutations.
READ MORE (Source: Stanford Medicine, 03/10/2020)