Purpose: Prior estimates of breast cancer risk in women with Lynch syndrome (LS) range from population risk to 18-fold increased risk with reported differences by gene. Here, breast cancer rates were determined in a large cohort of women with pathogenic variants (PVs) in a mismatch repair (MMR) gene detected through multigene panel testing and compared with rates in the US population and women undergoing panel testing.
Methods: MMR gene PV carriers were identified among women tested for suspicion of LS or hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) who met inclusion criteria. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) and 95% CIs of breast cancer were calculated compared with age-matched incidence in the general US female population and with women negative for PVs stratified by the test indication.
Results: In total, 0.8% of women (30,362 of 441,966 women) carried MMR gene PVs. PVs in (37.5%) and (29.3%) were more common than in (13.7%) and (19.4%). Women with PVs in and were tested more frequently for HBOC, whereas those with PVs in and were tested more frequently for LS. Breast cancer rates in women with LS were lower than those in the general female population (SIR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.81 to 0.96) and did not differ compared with women with negative panel testing for HBOC (SIR, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.82 to 0.99) or LS (SIR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.78 to 1.30).
Conclusion: In this large cohort of women with LS identified through panel testing, there was no evidence for increased risk of breast cancer compared with the general US population or women undergoing panel testing. These findings support average-risk breast cancer screening in women with LS.
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