A rare case of breast cancer in a transgender woman

We report a case of breast cancer in a transgender woman (assigned male sex at birth, gender identity female) of Ashkenazi Jewish descent with BRCA2 mutation who had been taking cross-sex hormone therapy for 2 years. In addition to demonstrating breast cancer imaging findings and risk factors, this...

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Autores principales: Sieberg, Ryan, Soriano, Katrina, Zuurbier, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8403717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.052
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description We report a case of breast cancer in a transgender woman (assigned male sex at birth, gender identity female) of Ashkenazi Jewish descent with BRCA2 mutation who had been taking cross-sex hormone therapy for 2 years. In addition to demonstrating breast cancer imaging findings and risk factors, this case draws attention to the paucity of research and data regarding breast cancer in transgender women and exemplifies the need for evidence-based consensus breast cancer screening recommendations for transgender women.
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spelling pubmed-84037172021-09-02 A rare case of breast cancer in a transgender woman Sieberg, Ryan Soriano, Katrina Zuurbier, Rebecca Radiol Case Rep Case Report We report a case of breast cancer in a transgender woman (assigned male sex at birth, gender identity female) of Ashkenazi Jewish descent with BRCA2 mutation who had been taking cross-sex hormone therapy for 2 years. In addition to demonstrating breast cancer imaging findings and risk factors, this case draws attention to the paucity of research and data regarding breast cancer in transgender women and exemplifies the need for evidence-based consensus breast cancer screening recommendations for transgender women. Elsevier 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8403717/ /pubmed/34484532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.052 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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