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The 2018 Mayo Clinic study of 3,030 patients that found an inherited fault in one of six genes in 5.5 percent of all pancreatic cancers, including 5.2 percent of patients with no family history, which is why every patient is now offered a germline test.
Hu and colleagues sequenced 21 cancer predisposition genes in 3,030 adults with pancreatic cancer enrolled in a Mayo Clinic registry between 2000 and 2016 (43.2 percent female, 95.6 percent non-Hispanic white, mean age 65.3) and compared mutation frequencies with 123,136 gnomAD and 53,105 ExAC reference controls. Significant associations were found for CDKN2A (0.3 percent of cases, odds ratio 12.33), TP53 (0.2 percent, 6.70), MLH1 (0.13 percent, 6.66), BRCA2 (1.9 percent, 6.20), ATM (2.3 percent, 5.71) and BRCA1 (0.6 percent, 2.58). Mutations in the six genes were found in 5.5 percent of all patients, 7.9 percent of those with a family history of pancreatic cancer and 5.2 percent of those without.
Family history misses most carriers, so the NCCN and ASCO guidelines moved to testing every patient; each carrier found is a family that can be offered surveillance and a patient who may be eligible for platinum and PARP inhibition.
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