Screening Mammography and Breast Cancer: Variation in Risk with Rare Deleterious or Predicted Deleterious Variants in DNA Repair Genes

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BACKGROUND: Women with a familial predisposition to breast cancer (BC) are offered screening at earlier ages and more frequently than women from the general population. METHODS: and 1363 unrelated controls. Participants reported their lifetime mammography exposures in a detailed questionnaire. Germline rare deleterious or predicted deleterious variants (D-PDVs) in 113 DNA repair genes were investigated in 82.5% of the women and classified according to the strength of their association with BC. Genes with an odds ratio (OR) < 0.9 was assigned to the Gene Group "Reduced", those with OR ≥ 0.9 and ≤1.1 to Group "Independent", and those with OR > 1.1 to Group "Increased". RESULTS: Overall, having been exposed to mammograms (never vs. ever) was not associated with BC risk. However, an increase in BC risk of 4% (95% CI: 1-6%) per additional exposure was found under the assumption of linearity. When grouped according to D-PDV carrier status, mammograms doubled the BC risk of women carrying a D-PDV in Group "Reduced", as compared to those carrying a D-PDV in Group "Increased". CONCLUSIONS: in women at high risk of BC; therefore, further studies are needed to verify our findings. Even though mammographic screening reduces the risk of mortality from BC, the identification of populations that are more or less susceptible to ionizing radiation may be clinically relevant.

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