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Patients Selection

Retrospective analysis of BC patients treated at the Institut

Curie between 1981 and 1999.

Genetic testing was proposed to women who presented

one of the following family criteria:

2 first-degree relatives affected with cancer, with at least

one with invasive BC before 41 yrs, or one with ovarian

cancer at any age

At least 3 first- or second-degree relatives from the

same lineage affected with invasive breast or ovarian

cancer at any age