Table 1.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network criteria for familial breast cancer
Family History |
• Early-age-onset breast cancer |
• Two breast primaries or breast and ovarian/fallopian tube/primary peritoneal cancer in a single individual or two or more breast primaries or breast and ovarian/fallopian tube/primary peritoneal cancers in close relative(s) from the same side of family (maternal or paternal) |
• A combination of breast cancer with one or more of the following: Thyroid cancer, sarcoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, endometrial cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain tumors, diffuse gastric cancer, dermatologic manifestations or leukemia/lymphoma on the same side of family |
• Member of a family with a known mutation in a breast cancer susceptibility gene |
• Populations at risk |
• Male breast cancer |
• Ovarian/fallopian tube/primary peritoneal cancer |
Known BRCA1/2, p53, PTEN, or other gene mutation associated with breast cancer risk |