BREAST CANCER- Part 2

From the chalkboard lecture:

SWINE FLU UPDATE

1. As of today, how many cases of swine flu have been reported in the USA? How many deaths?

BREAST CANCER:

1. What is the difference between sporadic breast cancer and hereditary breast cancer?

2. What is the difference between an oncogene and a tumor suppressor gene?

3. Is BRCA1 a tumor suppressor gene? Why is it important? What happens if a woman inherits a mutated BRCA1 gene? What does that do to her risk of developing breast cancer? of developing ovarian cancer? What are the patient's drug options? surgical options? What does having a baby due to the risk of breast cancer in a woman with an inactivating BRCA1 mutation?

4. What is DCIS? LCIS? IDC? ILC? Which of them has the poorest prognosis? (PLEASE NOTE THAT sporadic breast cancers and hereditary breast cancers both surface as either: DCIS, LCIS, IDC or ILC. The only way to know if you have an inactivating mutation in BRCA1 is to have a DNA test performed.)