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Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], British Journal of Cancer, 2(99), p. 371-374, 2008

DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604453

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Rapid progression of prostate cancer in men with a BRCA2 mutation

Journal article published in 2008 by Narod Sa, S. A. Narod, S. Neuhausen, G. Vichodez, S. Armel, H. T. Lynch, P. Ghadirian, S. Cummings, O. Olopade, D. Stoppa-Lyonnet, F. Couch, T. Wagner, E. Warner, W. D. Foulkes ORCID, H. Saal and other authors.
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Abstract

Men with BRCA2 mutations have been found to be at increased risk of developing prostate cancer. There is a recent report that BRCA2 carriers with prostate cancer have poorer survival than noncarrier prostate cancer patients. In this study, we compared survival of men with a BRCA2 mutation and prostate cancer with that of men with a BRCA1 mutation and prostate cancer. We obtained the age at diagnosis, age at death or current age from 182 men with prostate cancer from families with a BRCA2 mutation and from 119 men with prostate cancer from families with a BRCA1 mutation. The median survival from diagnosis was 4.0 years for men with a BRCA2 mutation vs 8.0 years for men with a BRCA1 mutation, and the difference was highly significant (P<0.01). It may be important to develop targeted chemotherapies to treat prostate cancer in men with a BRCA2 mutation.