Clinical interpretation of pathogenic ATM and CHEK2 variants on multigene panel tests: navigating moderate risk. - PubMed - NCBI
Fam Cancer. 2018 Feb 14. doi: 10.1007/s10689-018-0070-x. [Epub ahead of print]
Clinical interpretation of pathogenic ATM and CHEK2 variants on multigene panel tests: navigating moderate risk.
West AH1,
Blazer KR2,
Stoll J3,4,
Jones M5,
Weipert CM3,
Nielsen SM3,
Kupfer SS3,5,
Weitzel JN2,
Olopade OI6,7.
Abstract
Comprehensive genomic cancer risk assessment (GCRA) helps patients, family members, and providers make informed choices about cancer screening, surgical and chemotherapeutic risk reduction, and genetically targeted cancer therapies. The increasing availability of multigene panel tests for clinical applications allows testing of well-defined high-risk genes, as well as moderate-risk genes, for which the penetrance and spectrum of cancer risk are less well characterized. Moderate-risk genes are defined as genes that, when altered by a pathogenic variant, confer a 2 to fivefold relative risk of cancer. Two such genes included on many comprehensive cancer panels are the DNA repair genes ATM and CHEK2, best known for moderately increased risk of breast cancer development. However, the impact of screening and preventative interventions and spectrum of cancer risk beyond breast cancer associated with ATM and/or CHEK2 variants remain less well characterized. We convened a large, multidisciplinary, cross-sectional panel of GCRA clinicians to review challenging, peer-submitted cases of patients identified with ATM or CHEK2 variants. This paper summarizes the inter-professional case discussion and recommendations generated during the session, the level of concordance with respect to recommendations between the academic and community clinician participants for each case, and potential barriers to implementing recommended care in various practice settings.
KEYWORDS:
ATM; CHEK2; Cancer genetics; Genomic cancer risk assessment (GCRA); Moderate-risk gene; Panel test
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