Abstract:10587 Background: Identifying patients with hereditary breast cancer is critical since lifetime breast cancer risk is as high as 85% for those with germline BRCA1/2 mutations and preventive interventions can reduce that risk. However, genetic assessments and counseling are often underutilized among racial/ethnic minority populations. Reducing this genetic testing gap is important since hereditary breast/ovarian cancer syndromes occur among racial/ethnic minorities at least as frequently as non-Ashkenazi Jewis… Show more
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