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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 1331-1337Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.13.9626
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- Cancer Research UK [C5047/A3354] Funding Source: Medline
- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA083855, R01-CA102776, R01 CA083855-08, R01 CA083855-04, R01 CA102776-04, R01-CA83855, R01 CA083855-01, R01 CA083855-03, R01 CA102776-03, R01 CA102776-01A1, R01 CA083855-10, R01 CA083855-05, R01 CA083855-06, R01 CA102776-02, R01 CA102776, R01 CA083855-11, R01-CA74415, R01 CA083855-09, R01 CA102776-05, R01 CA074415, R01 CA083855-02, R01 CA083855-07] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) has been widely adopted as a key component of breast and gynecologic cancer risk-reduction for women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. Despite 17% to 39% of all BRCA mutation carriers having a mutation in BRCA2, no prospective study to date has evaluated the efficacy of RRSO for the prevention of breast and BRCA-associated gynecologic (ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal) cancer when BRCA2 mutation carriers are analyzed separately from BRCA1 mutation carriers. Patients and Methods A total of 1,079 women 30 years of age and older with ovaries in situ and a deleterious BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation were enrolled onto prospective follow-up studies at one of 11 centers from November 1, 1994 to December 1, 2004. Women self-selected RRSO or observation. Follow-up information through November 30, 2005, was collected by questionnaire and medical record review. The effect of RRSO on time to diagnosis of breast or BRCA-associated gynecologic cancer was analyzed using a Cox proportional-hazards model. Results During 3-year follow-up, RRSO was associated with an 85% reduction in BRCA1-associated gynecologic cancer risk (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.15; 95% CI, 0.04 to 0.56) and a 72% reduction in BRCA2-associated breast cancer risk (HR = 0.28; 95% CI, 0.08 to 0.92). While protection against BRCA1-associated breast cancer (HR = 0.61; 95% CI, 0.30 to 1.22) and BRCA2-associated gynecologic cancer (HR = 0.00; 95% CI, not estimable) was suggested, neither effect reached statistical significance. Conclusion The protection conferred by RRSO against breast and gynecologic cancers may differ between carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. Further studies evaluating the efficacy of risk-reduction strategies in BRCA mutation carriers should stratify by the specific gene mutated.
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