Blood Arsenic Levels as a Marker of Breast Cancer Risk among <i>BRCA1</i> Carriers

Blood Arsenic Levels as a Marker of Breast Cancer Risk among <i>BRCA1</i> Carriers

An important group of breast cancers is those associated with inherited susceptibility. In women, several predisposing mutations in genes involved in DNA repair have been discovered. Women with a germline pathogenic variant in <i>BRCA1</i> have a lifetime cancer risk of 70%. As part of a...

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Main Authors: Wojciech Marciniak, Tomáš Matoušek, Susan Domchek, Angelo Paradiso, Margherita Patruno, Arvids Irmejs, Irita Roderte, Róża Derkacz, Piotr Baszuk, Magdalena Kuświk, Cezary Cybulski, Tomasz Huzarski, Jacek Gronwald, Tadeusz Dębniak, Michał Falco, Marcin R. Lener, Anna Jakubowska, Katherine Pullella, Joanne Kotsopoulos, Steven Narod, Jan Lubiński
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Cancers
Subjects:
blood arsenic
cancer risk
epidemiology
<i>BRCA1</i> carriers
prospective cohort
breast cancer
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/13/3345

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