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Clinical challenges in interpreting multiple pathogenic mutations in single patients. |
| المؤلفون: |
Slaught, Christa, Berry, Elizabeth G., Bacik, Lindsay, Skalet, Alison H., Anadiotis, George, Tuohy, Therese, Leachman, Sancy A. |
| المصدر: |
Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice; 2/4/2021, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1-11, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
HEREDITARY cancer syndromes, PATIENTS' families, CANCER susceptibility, GENETIC testing, GENES, DISEASE susceptibility |
| مستخلص: |
Background: In the past two decades, genetic testing for cancer risk assessment has entered mainstream clinical practice due to the availability of low-cost panels of multiple cancer-associated genes. However, the clinical value of multiple-gene panels for cancer susceptibility is not well established, especially in cases where panel testing identifies more than one pathogenic variant. The risk for specific malignancies as a result of a mutated gene is complex and likely influenced by superimposed modifier variants and/or environmental effects. Recent data suggests that the combination of multiple pathogenic variants may be fewer than reported by chance, suggesting that some mutation combinations may be detrimental. Management of patients with "incidentally" discovered mutations can be particularly challenging, especially when established guidelines call for radical procedures (e.g. total gastrectomy in CDH1) in patients and families without a classic clinical history concerning for that cancer predisposition syndrome. Case presentation: We present two cases, one of an individual and one of a family, with multiple pathogenic mutations detected by multi-gene panel testing to highlight challenges practitioners face in counseling patients about pathogenic variants and determining preventive and therapeutic interventions. Conclusions: Ongoing investigation is needed to improve our understanding of inherited susceptibility to disease in general and cancer predisposition syndromes, as this information has the potential to lead to the development of more precise and patient-specific counseling and surveillance strategies. The real-world adoption of new or improved technologies into clinical practice frequently requires medical decision-making in the absence of established understanding of gene-gene interactions. In the meantime, practitioners must be prepared to apply a rationale based on currently available knowledge to clinical decision-making. Current practice is evolving to rely heavily on clinical concordance with personal and family history in making specific therapeutic decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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