Breast cancer is diagnosed in a 62-year-old woman.She already survived a soft-tissue sarcoma that had been diagnosed and successfully treated when she was 40 years old and an adrenocortical cancer that had been diagnosed and successfully treated when she was 48 years old.She probably has an inherited cancer susceptibility that affects:

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Breast cancer susceptibility occurs not only in mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 but also in Li-Fraumeni syndrome, which is caused by inherited mutations in one copy of the p53 gene.

Breast Cancer Is Diagnosed in a 62-Year-Old Woman