BRCA mutations present in some Indian patients with no family history of ovarian cancer
03 Dec 2019
byStephen Padilla
In India, nearly one in four unselected ovarian cancer patients present with germline pathogenic BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations, of whom 85 percent had no discernible family history of breast or ovarian cancer, according to a study presented at the recent 2019 Asia Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO Asia 2019).