ICARE Newsletter Fall 2023

Fertility Treatment in BRCA Carriers: Breast Cancer Risk

A recent study among female BRCA carriers showed risk of breast cancer was not significantly raised through fertility treatment, which is reassuring. There remains a need to further study this question in more detail, for associations with breast cancers across different breast cancer subtypes, including breast cancers that are hormone-related and breast cancers that are hormone receptor-positive.


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