At a Routine Health Examination, a Woman Whose Mother Had

question 15

Multiple Choice

At a routine health examination, a woman whose mother had breast cancer asks the nurse about the genetic basis of breast cancer and the genes involved. The nurse explains that

• A) her risk of inheriting BRCA gene mutations is small unless her mother had both ovarian and breast cancer.
• B) changes in BRCA genes that normally suppress cancer growth can be passed to offspring, increasing the risk for breast cancer.
• C) because her mother had breast cancer, she has inherited a 50% to 85% chance of developing breast cancer from mutated genes.
• D) genetic mutations increase cancer risk only in combination with other risk factors such as obesity.

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