A Devastatingly “Minor” Relationship Between Male Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer

Certain cancers pave way for other primary cancers to emerge with genetic disturbances serving as a common denominator as demonstrated by our male patient who developed prostate cancer within three months of being diagnosed with breast cancer despite being negative for the major genetic mutations, B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kolli, Sindhura, Asarian, Armand, Genato, Romulo, Xiao, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6298615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564542
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3463
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Sumario:Certain cancers pave way for other primary cancers to emerge with genetic disturbances serving as a common denominator as demonstrated by our male patient who developed prostate cancer within three months of being diagnosed with breast cancer despite being negative for the major genetic mutations, BRCA1 and BRCA2 and having a negative family history for cancers. Here we examine overlapping major and minor contributing risk factors and the limitations of the most current screening guidelines.

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