Oncology Primary Care

Primary care oncology
The age at which breast cancer screening should commence in known BRCA mutation carriers is unclear. Women at high genetic risk for breast cancer may also be more susceptible to radiation-induced carcinogenesis. A pooled analysis that estimated the lifetime risk of radiation-induced breast cancer from annual mammography in young BRCA mutation carriers concluded that the harms of annual screening would outweigh benefits in women ages of 25 to 29, and probably between ages 30 and 34 as well .