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Lead
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Age
18–50
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Diagnosis of invasive breast cancer or DCIS
Appropriate for genetic testing, defined as if they meeting one or more of the following criteria (note that patients may be appropriate for genetic testing even if they do not meet these criteria, but NCCN and most payers recognize these groups as clearly appropriate for testing)
Must be a primary malignancy (not recurrence), but can be second diagnosis if is a contralateral cancer and the first cancer was not treated with mastectomy
Female age ≥18,
If Ashkenazi Jewish: Breast cancer diagnosis ≤ 60. Subjects will be presumed to be of Ashkenazi ethnicity if Jewish religious preference is confirmed in subject and at least 1 parent, unless they explicitly endorse Sephardic, Iranian, Yemeni/Ethiopian, or Bukharan Jewish Decent, in which case non-Ashkenazi criteria will be applied.
If not Ashkenazi Jewish:
Breast cancer diagnosis ≤ 45 OR
Bilateral breast cancer, with first diagnosed ≤ 50 OR
Breast cancer diagnosed at any age with a male relative with breast cancer OR
Breast cancer diagnosis ≤ 50 with one or more of the following::
* 1 or more relative with breast cancer ≤ 50 or
* 1 or more relative with ovarian cancer
Have not completed definitive surgical treatment
For patients planning mastectomy for treatment, has not yet undergone mastectomy
For patients planning breast conservation for treatment, has not yet begun adjuvant radiation therapy
You may not be if
LCIS without invasive cancer (IDC or ILC) and without DCIS
Previous breast cancer treated with mastectomy
Plan for neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery
Unable to complete English language questionnaires, as instruments have not been validated in non-English speaking populations
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