Journal of Medical Genetics
Risk of breast cancer after ovarian cancer in germline BRCA1/2 heterozygotes
Breast cancer risk after ovarian cancer in germline BRCA1/2 heterozygotes remains uncertain, with a recent large multicentre international study reporting lower-than-expected incidence in the first decade after ovarian cancer diagnosis (Apostol et al. 2026). We re‑evaluated our previously published regional cohort of 701 women with ovarian cancer and a germline BRCA1/2 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant, restricting the analysis to those tested after ovarian cancer diagnosis and without prior breast cancer, to …