Tag: Basal Cell Cancer

ICARE Newsletter Winter 2019

Basal Cell Cancers May Be a Risk Factor to Predict Inherited Cancer Predisposition

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An interesting area of progress to identify individuals with inherited risks included a study of over 13,000 individuals with six or more basal cell cancers (BCC) evaluated through a claims database. Results indicated ~20% of these individuals had a germline mutation in a DNA repair gene, including BRCA1/2, PALB2, and the Lynch syndrome genes, among …