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    • Letter

    •• Original research:

    Emergence of BRCA Reversion Mutations in Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer After Treatment with Rucaparib.

    •• Reply:

    Reply to Feng Qi, Zicheng Xu, and Qing Zou's Letter to the Editor re: Andrea Loehr, Arif Hussain, Akash Patnaik, et al. Emergence of BRCA Reversion Mutations in Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer After Treatment with Rucaparib. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2022.09.010.

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    •• Letter:

    Editorial Comment on "Two cases of CRPC with BRCA mutation treated by olaparib after favorable response to cisplatin".

    • How the Analysis of the Pathogenetic Variants of DDR Genes Will Change the Management of Prostate Cancer Patients.
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    •• Identifier: NCT03330405: Javelin Parp Medley: Avelumab Plus Talazoparib In Locally Advanced Or Metastatic Solid Tumors. (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2022 Nov 19.)

    •• Commentary:

    Combining PARP Inhibitor With Immunotherapy-Does the Promise of Preclinical Data Translate to Clinic?

    • Avelumab Plus Talazoparib in Patients With BRCA1/2- or ATM-Altered Advanced Solid Tumors: Results From JAVELIN BRCA/ATM, an Open-Label, Multicenter, Phase 2b, Tumor-Agnostic Trial.
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    •• Identifier: NCT03565991: Javelin BRCA/ATM: Avelumab Plus Talazoparib in Patients With BRCA or ATM Mutant Solid Tumors. (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2022 Nov 19.)

    •• Commentary:

    Combining PARP Inhibitor With Immunotherapy-Does the Promise of Preclinical Data Translate to Clinic?

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    • A case of metastatic treatment-emergent small cell/neuroendocrine prostate cancer with BRCA2 mutation diagnosed by liver biopsy.
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    •• Commentary:

    Editorial Comment from Dr Sekino and Dr Hinata to A case of metastatic treatment emergent small cell/neuroendocrine prostate cancer with BRCA2 mutation diagnosed by liver biopsy.

    •• Commentary:

    Editorial Comment from Dr Kato to A case of metastatic treatment-emergent small cell/neuroendocrine prostate cancer with BRCA2 mutation by liver biopsy.

    • Prostate cancer recurring as small-cell carcinoma with a BRCA2 somatic mutation.
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    • J Clin Oncol. 2022 Oct 18:JCO2102947. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.02947. Epub ahead of print.

    •• Identifier: NCT02893917: Testing Two Oral Drugs Combination (Cediranib and Olaparib) Compared to a Single Drug (Olaparib) for Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer. (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2022 Oct 19.)

    •• Research news: Cediranib Plus Olaparib Elicits rPFS Benefit in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. (OncLive)

    • Emergence of BRCA Reversion Mutations in Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer After Treatment with Rucaparib.
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    •• Commentary:

    BRCA Reversion Mutations in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

    •• Letter:

    Re: Andrea Loehr, Arif Hussain, Akash Patnaik, et al. Emergence of BRCA Reversion Mutations in Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer After Treatment with Rucaparib. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2022.09.010.

    •• Reply:

    Reply to Feng Qi, Zicheng Xu, and Qing Zou's Letter to the Editor re: Andrea Loehr, Arif Hussain, Akash Patnaik, et al. Emergence of BRCA Reversion Mutations in Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer After Treatment with Rucaparib. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2022.09.010.

    • Long-Term Outcomes and Genetic Predictors of Response to Metastasis-Directed Therapy Versus Observation in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Analysis of STOMP and ORIOLE Trials.
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    • J Clin Oncol. 2022 Oct 10;40(29):3377-3382. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.00644. Epub 2022 Aug 24.

    Identifier: NCT01558427: Non-systemic Treatment for Patients With Low-volume Metastatic Prostate Cancer. (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2022 Oct 9.)

    Identifier: NCT02680587: Stereotactic Body Radiation for Prostate Oligometastases (ORIOLE). (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2022 Oct 9.)

    • Initial outcomes and insights from a novel high-risk prostate cancer screening clinic.
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    • OncLive. 2022 Oct 3.

    Identifier: NCT02975934: A Study of Rucaparib Versus Physician's Choice of Therapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer and Homologous Recombination Gene Deficiency (TRITON3). (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2022 Oct 5.)

    • Clovis Oncology to File sNDA for Rubraca in BRCA1/2-Mutant Prostate Cancer.
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    Editorial: Prostate Cancer Genomics: Application at Different Stages of a Patient's Journey.

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    • Berchuck JE, Boiarsky D, Silver R, Sunkara R, McClure HM, Tsai HK, Siegmund S, Tewari AK, Nowak JA, Lindeman NI, Rana HQ, Choudhury AD, Pomerantz MM, Freedman ML, Van Allen EM, Taplin ME.
    • JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Aug [2022 Sep 14];6:e2200329. doi: 10.1200/PO.22.00329.

    Identifier: NCT03328091: Genetic Counseling Processes and Outcomes Among Males With Prostate Cancer (ProGen) (ProGen). (ClinicalTrials.gov)

    • B7-H3 as a Therapeutic Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer.
    • Guo C, Figueiredo I, Gurel B, Neeb A, Seed G, Crespo M, Carreira S, Rekowski J, Buroni L, Welti J, Bogdan D, Gallagher L, Sharp A, Fenor de la Maza MD, Rescigno P, Westaby D, Chandran K, Riisnaes R, Ferreira A, Miranda S, Calì B, Alimonti A, Bressan S, Nguyen AHT, Shen MM, Hawley JE, Obradovic A, Drake CG, Bertan C, Baker C, Tunariu N, Yuan W, de Bono JS.
    • Eur Urol. 2022 Sep 13:S0302-2838(22)02633-1. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.09.004. Epub ahead of print.
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    Original research:

    Niraparib in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and DNA repair gene defects (GALAHAD): a multicentre, open-label, phase 2 trial.

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    • Curr Opin Urol. 2022 Sep 1;32(5):445-450. doi: 10.1097/MOU.0000000000001019. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
    • Review
    • Significance of prostate/pancreatic/skin cancer family history for detecting BRCA2 pathogenic variant careers among patients with breast cancer.
    • Minoura Y, Takahashi M, Maeda H, Kuwahara S, Tachikawa H, Yamamoto M, Tomioka N, Watanabe K, Sakurai A.
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    • Abiraterone and Olaparib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.
    • Clarke NW, Armstrong AJ, Thiery-Vuillemin A, Oya M, Shore N, Loredo E Procopio G, de Menezes J, Girotto G, Arslan C, Mehra N, Parnis F, Brown E, Schlürmann F, Joung JY, Sugimoto M, Virizuela JA, Emmenegger U, Navratil J, Buchschacher GL, Poehlein C, Harrington EA, Desai C, Kang J, Saad F, for the PROpel Investigators.
    • NEJM Evid. 2022 Sep;1(9):EVIDoa2200043. doi: 10.1056/EVIDoa2200043. Epub 2022 Jun 3.

    •• Identifier: NCT03732820: Study on Olaparib Plus Abiraterone as First-line Therapy in Men With Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer. (ClinicalTrials.gov . Accessed 2023 Feb 18.)

    •• Commentary: Should We “PROpel” Olaparib Forward for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer? (NEJM Evidence)

    • DNA damage repair gene germline profiling for metastatic prostate cancer patients of different ancestries.
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    • Inherited risk assessment and its clinical utility for predicting prostate cancer from diagnostic prostate biopsies.
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    • Review
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    • Kimura H, Mizuno K, Shiota M, Narita S, Terada N, Fujimoto N, Ogura K, Hatano S, Iwasaki Y, Hakozaki N, Ishitoya S, Sumiyoshi T, Goto T, Kobayashi T, Nakagawa H, Kamoto T, Eto M, Habuchi T, Ogawa O, Momozawa Y, Akamatsu S.
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    • Emerging Role of PARP Inhibitors in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.
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    • Review
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    • Nivolumab plus rucaparib for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from the phase 2 CheckMate 9KD trial.
    • Fizazi K, Retz M, Petrylak DP, Goh JC, Perez-Gracia J, Lacombe L, Zschäbitz S, Burotto M, Mahammedi H, Gravis G, Bastos DA, McCune SL, Vázquez Limón JC, Kwan EM, Castellano D, Fléchon A, Saad F, Grimm MO, Shaffer DR, Armstrong AJ, Bhagavatheeswaran P, Amin NP, Ünsal-Kaçmaz K, Wang X, Li J, Loehr A, Pachynski RK.
    • J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Aug;10(8):e004761. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004761.

    Identifier: NCT03338790: An Investigational Immunotherapy Study of Nivolumab in Combination With Rucaparib, Docetaxel, or Enzalutamide in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer (CheckMate 9KD). (ClinicalTrials.gov)

    • Germline genetics of prostate cancer.
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    • Prostate. 2022 Aug;82 Suppl 1:S3-S12. doi: 10.1002/pros.24340.
    • Clinical implications of homologous recombination repair mutations in prostate cancer.
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    • Prostate. 2022 Aug;82 Suppl 1:S45-S59. doi: 10.1002/pros.24352.
    • Novel Germline Mutations in a Cohort of Men with Familial Prostate Cancer.
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    • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Prognostic Value of BRCA Mutations, Homologous Recombination Gene Mutations, and Homologous Recombination Deficiencies in Cancer.
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    • Emerging Biomarker-Guided Therapies in Prostate Cancer.
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    • Oncologists Seeing Lack of PARP Inhibitor Response in MSI-High, BRCA-Mutant Prostate Cancer Patients.
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    • Research news

    Original research:

    PARP Inhibitor Insensitivity to BRCA1/2 Monoallelic Mutations in Microsatellite Instability-High Cancers.

    • Study Confirms BRCA1 and BRCA2 Linked to Seven Cancers.
    • Alexander W.
    • Medscape Oncology. 2022 Jul 12.

    Original research:

    Expansion of Cancer Risk Profile for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants.

    • Olaparib tolerability and common adverse-event management in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: Further analyses from the PROfound study.
    • Roubaud G, Özgüroglu M, Penel N, Matsubara N, Mehra N, Kolinsky MP, Procopio G, Feyerabend S, Joung JY, Gravis G, Nishimura K, Gedye C, Padua C, Shore N, Thiery-Vuillemin A, Saad F, van Alphen R, Carducci MA, Desai C, Brickel N, Poehlein C, Del Rosario P, Fizazi K.
    • Eur J Cancer. 2022 Jul;170:73-84. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2022.04.016. Epub 2022 May 19.

    Identifier: NCT02987543: Study of Olaparib (Lynparza™) Versus Enzalutamide or Abiraterone Acetate in Men With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (PROfound Study). (ClinicalTrials.gov)

    • The growing role of rucaparib in contemporary treatment of metastatic prostate cancer: a review of efficacy and guidance for side effect management.
    • Rao A, Antonarakis ES.
    • Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2022 Jul;22(7):671-679. doi: 10.1080/14737140.2022.2081154. Epub 2022 May 26.
    • Review
    • BRCA2 Alterations in Neuroendocrine/Small-Cell Carcinoma Prostate Cancer: A Case Series.
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    • JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Jul;6:e2200091. doi: 10.1200/PO.22.00091.
    • Case report
    • The Prognostic Significance of Homologous Recombination Repair Pathway Alterations in Metastatic Hormone Sensitive Prostate Cancer.
    • Lee AM, Saidian A, Shaya J, Nonato T, Cabal A, Randall JM, Millard F, Stewart T, Rose B, Tamayo P, McKay RR.
    • Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2022 Jun 30:S1558-7673(22)00141-0. doi: 10.1016/j.clgc.2022.06.016. Epub ahead of print.
    • Analysis of the Clinical Advancements for BRCA-Related Malignancies Highlights the Lack of Treatment Evidence for BRCA-Positive Male Breast Cancer.
    • McClurg DP, Urquhart G, McGoldrick T, Chatterji S, Miedzybrodzka Z, Speirs V, Elsberger B.
    • Cancers (Basel). 2022 Jun 28;14(13):3175. doi: 10.3390/cancers14133175.
    • Patient-reported Outcomes in Men with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Harboring DNA Damage Response Alterations Treated with Talazoparib: Results from TALAPRO-1.
    • Saad F, de Bono J, Barthélémy P, Dorff T, Mehra N, Scagliotti G, Stirling A, Machiels JP, Renard V, Maruzzo M, Higano CS, Gurney H, Healy C, Bhattacharyya H, Arondekar B, Niyazov A, Fizazi K.
    • Eur Urol. 2022 Jun 21:S0302-2838(22)02407-1. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.05.030. Epub ahead of print.
    • A Japanese case of castration-resistant prostate cancer with BRCA2 and RB1 co-loss and TP53 mutation: a case report.
    • Iwasawa T, Kosaka T, Morita S, Mikami S, Nakamura K, Hongo H, Nishihara H, Oya M.
    • BMC Med Genomics. 2022 Jun 20;15(1):138. doi: 10.1186/s12920-022-01286-w.
    • The tumor mutational landscape of BRCA2-deficient primary and metastatic prostate cancer.
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    • NPJ Precis Oncol. 2022 Jun 17;6(1):39. doi: 10.1038/s41698-022-00284-6.
    • PARP Inhibitors: A New Horizon for Patients with Prostate Cancer.
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    • Biomedicines. 2022 Jun 15;10(6):1416. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10061416.
    • Germline Mutations in Patients With Early-Onset Prostate Cancer.
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    • Front Oncol. 2022 Jun 6;12:826778. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.826778.
    • Expansion of Cancer Risk Profile for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants.
    • Momozawa Y, Sasai R, Usui Y, Shiraishi K, Iwasaki Y, Taniyama Y, Parsons MT, Mizukami K, Sekine Y, Hirata M, Kamatani Y, Endo M, Inai C, Takata S, Ito H, Kohno T, Matsuda K, Nakamura S, Sugano K, Yoshida T, Nakagawa H, Matsuo K, Murakami Y, Spurdle AB, Kubo M.
    • JAMA Oncol. 2022 Jun 1;8(6):871-878. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.0476.

    Research news: Study Confirms BRCA1 and BRCA2 Linked to Seven Cancers. (Medscape Oncology)

    • Hereditary Cancer Gene Variants in Hispanic Men With a Personal or Family History of Prostate Cancer.
    • Ramamurthy C, Stutz EW, Goros M, Gelfond J, Johnson-Pais TL, Thompson IM Jr, Leach RJ, Liss MA.
    • Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2022 Jun;20(3):237-243. doi: 10.1016/j.clgc.2022.01.008. Epub 2022 Jan 14.
    • Association of Inherited Mutations in DNA Repair Genes with Localized Prostate Cancer.
    • Lee DJ, Hausler R, Le AN, Kelly G, Powers J, Ding J, Feld E, Desai H, Morrison C, Doucette A, Gabriel P, Genetics Center R, Judy RL, Weaver J, Kember R, Damrauer SM, Rader DJ, Domchek SM, Narayan V, Schwartz LE, Maxwell KN.
    • Eur Urol. 2022 Jun;81(6):559-567. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2021.09.029. Epub 2021 Oct 25.
    • PARP Inhibitor Insensitivity to BRCA1/2 Monoallelic Mutations in Microsatellite Instability-High Cancers.
    • Sokol ES, Jin DX, Fine A, Trabucco SE, Maund S, Frampton G, Molinero L, Antonarakis ES.
    • JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Jun;6:e2100531. doi: 10.1200/PO.21.00531.

    Research news: Oncologists Seeing Lack of PARP Inhibitor Response in MSI-High, BRCA-Mutant Prostate Cancer Patients. (Precision Oncology News)

    • Clinical Significance of Gene Mutations and Polymorphic Variants and their Association with Prostate Cancer Risk in Polish Men.
    • Heise M, Jarzemski P, Nowak D, Bak A, Junkiert-Czarnecka A, Pilarska-Deltow M, Borysiak M, Pilarska B, Haus O.
    • Cancer Control. 2022 Jan-Dec [2022 May 31];29:10732748211062342. doi: 10.1177/10732748211062342.
    • A Healthy Lifestyle in Men at Increased Genetic Risk for Prostate Cancer.
    • Plym A, Zhang Y, Stopsack KH, Delcoigne B, Wiklund F, Haiman C, Kenfield SA, Kibel AS, Giovannucci E, Penney KL, Mucci LA.
    • Eur Urol. 2022 May 27:S0302-2838(22)02342-9. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.05.008. Epub ahead of print.
    • Allele-informed copy number evaluation of plasma DNA samples from metastatic prostate cancer patients: the PCF_SELECT consortium assay.
    • Orlando F, Romanel A, Trujillo B, Sigouros M, Wetterskog D, Quaini O, Leone G, Xiang JZ, Wingate A, Tagawa S, Jayaram A, Linch M; PEACE Consortium, Jamal-Hanjani M, Swanton C, Rubin MA, Wyatt AW, Beltran H, Attard G, Demichelis F.
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    • Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer with BRCA2 Mutation: The Challenge Incorporating PARP Inhibitors and Platinum in Treatment Sequencing.
    • Nogueira Costa I, Reis J, Meireles S, Ribeiro MJ, Barbosa M, Augusto I.
    • Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2022 May 24;9(5):003331. doi: 10.12890/2022_003331.
    • Olaparib for Chinese metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A real-world study of efficacy and gene predictive analysis.
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    • Cancer Risks Associated With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants.
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    Press: BRCA Mutations More Strongly Tied to Prostate and Pancreatic Cancer. (Inside Precision Medicine)

    Commentary:

    Germline Pathogenic Variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2: Malignancies Beyond Female Breast and Ovarian Cancers.

    Comment, Letter:

    Do Female BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Have an Increased Risk of Lung Cancer?

    Reply, Letter:

    Reply to V. Fallet et al.

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    • Review
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    • Review
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    • Review
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    • Janssen Seeking European Union Approval for Zejula in HRR-Positive Prostate Cancer.
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    Review:

    Phase 3 MAGNITUDE Study: First Results of Niraparib With Abiraterone Acetate and Prednisone as First-Line Therapy in Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer With and Without Homologous Recombination Repair Gene Alterations.

    Review:

    PROpel: Phase III Trial of Olaparib and Abiraterone vs Placebo and Abiraterone as First-Line Therapy for Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

    Commentary:

    Highlights in Advanced Prostate Cancer From the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium: Commentary.

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    • Commentary

    Original research:

    Cancer Risks Associated With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants.

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    Identifier: NCT02854436: An Efficacy and Safety Study of Niraparib in Men With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer and DNA-Repair Anomalies (Galahad). (ClinicalTrials.gov)

    Research news: Study: PARP inhibitor treatment for metastatic prostate cancer shows most benefit in men with inherited BRCA mutations. (FORCE. XRAY)

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    Original research:

    Cancer Risks Associated With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants.

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    Commentary:

    An important step towards smarter screening for prostate cancer.

    Commentary:

    Talazoparib: a new biomarker-directed therapy in advanced prostate cancer.

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    Review:

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    Original research:

    Current progress and questions in germline genetics of prostate cancer.

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    Commentary:

    Editorial Comment to Prominent response to platinum-based chemotherapy in a patient with BRCA2 mutant-neuroendocrine prostate cancer and MDM2 amplification.

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    Commentary:

    Incorporation of Polygenic Risk Score into Guidelines for Inherited Risk Assessment for Prostate Cancer.

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    Commentary, Review:

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    Commentary:

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    Letter:

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    Letter:

    Efficacy of PARP Inhibition in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer is Very Different with Non-BRCA DNA Repair Alterations: Reconstructing Prespecified Endpoints for Cohort B from the Phase 3 PROfound Trial of Olaparib. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.09.024 .

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    Press: EMA Committee Recommends Narrower Lynparza Indication for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Than FDA. (Precision Oncology News)

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    Original research:

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    Original research:

    Olaparib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

    Study record: Study of Olaparib (Lynparza™) Versus Enzalutamide or Abiraterone Acetate in Men With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (PROfound Study). (ClinicalTrials.gov)

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    • Commentary

    Original research:

    Association of Genomic Domains in BRCA1 and BRCA2 With Prostate Cancer Risk and Aggressiveness.

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    Drug Approval: FDA approves olaparib for HRR gene-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (U.S. Food & Drug Administration)

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    News: Update: PARP inhibitors, rucaparib (Rubraca) and olaparib (Lynparza) receive FDA approval for metastatic prostate cancer (FORCE. XRAYS.)

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    Commentary:

    Re: Platinum-based Chemotherapy in Metastatic Prostate Cancer with DNA Repair Gene Alterations.

    Press: Prostate Cancer Patients With DNA Damage Repair Mutations May Respond to Platinum Chemo. (Precision Oncology News)

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    Commentary:

    Re: Association of Genomic Domains in BRCA1 and BRCA2 with Prostate Cancer Risk and Aggressiveness.

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    Editorial:

    How Do We Respond to Men with BRCA Mutations when They Ask About Prostate Cancer?

    Comment:

    Re: Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: A Prospective Cohort Study.

    Editorial:

    The established risk of prostate cancer comorbidity in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers: where is the clinically relevant hotspot for prostate cancer?

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    Original research:

    Interim Results from the IMPACT Study: Evidence for Prostate-specific Antigen Screening in BRCA2 Mutation Carriers.

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    Original research:

    Interim Results from the IMPACT Study: Evidence for Prostate-specific Antigen Screening in BRCA2 Mutation Carriers.

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    New name for breast-cancer syndrome could help to save lives.

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    Original research:

    Differential Response to Olaparib Treatment Among Men with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Harboring BRCA1 or BRCA2 Versus ATM Mutations.

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    Testing for BRCA1/2 and ataxiatelangiectasia mutated in men with high prostate indices: An approach to reducing prostate cancer mortality in Asia and Africa.

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    Plasma DNA and Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The Odyssey to a Clinical Biomarker Test.

    • DNA Repair Pathway Alterations in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Responders to Radium-223.
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    • Rare germline mutations in African American men diagnosed with early-onset prostate cancer.
    • Beebe-Dimmer JL, Zuhlke KA, Johnson AM, Liesman D, Cooney KA.
    • Prostate. 2018 Apr;78(5):321-326. doi: 10.1002/pros.23464. Epub 2018 Jan 21.
    • Intraductal/ductal histology and lymphovascular invasion are associated with germline DNA-repair gene mutations in prostate cancer.
    • Isaacsson Velho P, Silberstein JL, Markowski MC, Luo J, Lotan TL, Isaacs WB, Antonarakis ES.
    • Prostate. 2018 Apr;78(5):401-407. doi: 10.1002/pros.23484. Epub 2018 Jan 25.
    • Germline BRCA mutation in male carriers-ripe for precision oncology?
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    • Review
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    • Eng KH, Szender JB, Etter JL, Kaur J, Poblete S, Huang RY, Zhu Q, Grzesik KA, Battaglia S, Cannioto R, Krolewski JJ, Zsiros E, Frederick PJ, Lele SB, Moysich KB, Odunsi KO.
    • PLoS Genet. 2018 Feb 15;14(2):e1007194. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007194. eCollection 2018 Feb.
    • Acquired Resistance to Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitor Olaparib in BRCA2-Associated Prostate Cancer Resulting From Biallelic BRCA2 Reversion Mutations Restores Both Germline and Somatic Loss-of-Function Mutations.
    • Carneiro BA, Collier KA, Nagy RJ, Pamarthy S, Sagar V, Fairclough S, Odegaard J, Lanman RB, Costa R, Taxter T, Kuzel TM, Fan A, Chae YK, Cristofanilli M, Hussain MH, Abdulkadir SA, Giles FJ.
    • JCO Precis Oncol. 2018;2:PO.17.00176. doi: 10.1200/PO.17.00176. Epub 2018 Feb 14.

    Commentary:

    Tumor Suppressor Tolerance: Reversion Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 and Resistance to PARP Inhibitors and Platinum.

    Case report:

    Polyclonal BRCA2 Reversion Mutations Detected in Circulating Tumor DNA After Platinum Chemotherapy in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    • Tumor Suppressor Tolerance: Reversion Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 and Resistance to PARP Inhibitors and Platinum.
    • Ganesan S.
    • JCO Precis Oncol. 2018 Nov [2018 Feb 14];2:1-4. doi: 10.1200/PO.18.00001.

    Case report:

    Somatic Reversion of Germline BRCA2 Mutation Confers Resistance to Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitor Therapy.

    Case report:

    Polyclonal BRCA2 Reversion Mutations Detected in Circulating Tumor DNA After Platinum Chemotherapy in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    Original research:

    Acquired Resistance to Poly (ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitor Olaparib in BRCA2-Associated Prostate Cancer Resulting From Biallelic BRCA2 Reversion Mutations Restores Both Germline and Somatic Loss-of-Function Mutations.

    • Male BRCA mutation carriers: clinical characteristics and cancer spectrum.
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    • Re: Germline Mutations in ATM and BRCA1/2 Distinguish Risk for Lethal and Indolent Prostate Cancer and are Associated with Early Age at Death.
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    • Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Benign Prostate Hyperplasia Features Among Male BRCA Mutation Carriers.
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    • The association between germline BRCA2 variants and sensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy among men with metastatic prostate cancer.
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    Editorial:

    Exploiting DNA damage without repair: The activity of platinum chemotherapy in BRCA-Mutated prostate cancers.

    • Analysis of Circulating Cell-free DNA Identifies Multi-clonal Heterogeneity of BRCA2 Reversion Mutations Associated with Resistance to PARP Inhibitors.
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    • Cancer Discov. 2017 Sep;7(9):999-1005. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-0146. Epub 2017 Apr 27.

    Review:

    Reversion Mutations with Clinical Use of PARP Inhibitors: Many Genes, Many Versions.

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    • Comment

    Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

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    • Commentary

    Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer.

    • Commentary on "Inherited DNA-repair gene mutations in men with metastatic prostate cancer". Pritchard CC, Mateo J, Walsh MF, De Sarkar N, Abida W, Beltran H, Garofalo A, Gulati R, Carreira S, Eeles R, Elemento O, Rubin MA, Robinson D, Lonigro R, Hussain M, Chinnaiyan A, Vinson J, Filipenko J, Garraway L, Taplin ME, AlDubayan S, Han GC, Beightol M, Morrissey C, Nghiem B, Cheng HH, Montgomery B, Walsh T, Casadei S, Berger M, Zhang L, Zehir A, Vijai J, Scher HI, Sawyers C, Schultz N, Kantoff PW, Solit D, Robson M, Van Allen EM, Offit K, de Bono J, Nelson PS. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(5):443-53.
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    • Commentary

    Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    • Prediction of Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks in Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores.
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    Editorial:

    Fine Tuning the Risk of Hereditary Cancer Using Genome-Wide Association Studies.

    • Mutations in BRCA2 and taxane resistance in prostate cancer.
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    • Review
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    • Annala M, Struss WJ, Warner EW, Beja K, Vandekerkhove G, Wong A, Khalaf D, Seppälä IL, So A, Lo G, Aggarwal R, Small EJ, Nykter M, Gleave ME, Chi KN, Wyatt AW.
    • Eur Urol. 2017 Jul;72(1):34-42. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2017.02.023. Epub 2017 Mar 1.
    • Prospective Genomic Profiling of Prostate Cancer Across Disease States Reveals Germline and Somatic Alterations That May Affect Clinical Decision Making.
    • Abida W, Armenia J, Gopalan A, Brennan R, Walsh M, Barron D, Danila D, Rathkopf D, Morris M, Slovin S, McLaughlin B, Curtis K, Hyman DM, Durack JC, Solomon SB, Arcila ME, Zehir A, Syed A, Gao J, Chakravarty D, Vargas HA, Robson ME, Joseph V, Offit K, Donoghue MTA, Abeshouse AA, Kundra R, Heins ZJ, Penson AV, Harris C, Taylor BS, Ladanyi M, Mandelker D, Zhang L, Reuter VE, Kantoff PW, Solit DB, Berger MF, Sawyers CL, Schultz N, Scher HI.
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    • Intraductal Carcinoma of the Prostate: A Risk for Rapid Recurrence.
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    • Review
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    • 5 Big Questions (and Answers) on Inherited Prostate Cancer Testing.
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    • Inherited Mutations in Men Undergoing Multigene Panel Testing for Prostate Cancer: Emerging Implications for Personalized Prostate Cancer Genetic Evaluation.
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    Commentary:

    Genetic Testing for Prostate Cancer in Clinical Practice.

    • Germline Mutations in ATM and BRCA1/2 Distinguish Risk for Lethal and Indolent Prostate Cancer and are Associated with Early Age at Death.
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    • Conference Report, Review
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    • Letter, Commentary

    Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

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    • Extreme Response to High-dose Testosterone in BRCA2- and ATM-mutated Prostate Cancer.
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    • Exceptional Duration of Radium-223 in Prostate Cancer With a BRCA2 Mutation.
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    • Familial Associations Between Prostate Cancer and Other Cancers.
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    Research News:

    Prostate cancer: Genomic drivers of BRCA2-mutant tumours.

    • Rare Variation in TET2 Is Associated with Clinically Relevant Prostate Carcinoma in African-Americans.
    • Koboldt DC, Kanchi KL, Gui B, Larson DE, Fulton R, Isaacs WB, Kraja A, Borecki IB, Jia L, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Kibel AS.
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    • BRCA2 Mutations in Prostate Cancer Assort Into Cluster Regions.
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    • Conference abstract
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    • Cheng HH, Klemfuss N, Montgomery B, Higano CS, Schweizer MT, Mostaghel EA, McFerrin LG, Yu EY, Nelson PS, Pritchard CC.
    • Prostate. 2016 Oct;76(14):1303-11. doi: 10.1002/pros.23219. Epub 2016 Jun 21.
    • Familial prostate cancer.
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    See PubMed abstract for multiple related items.

    News:

    High frequency of gene mutations in metastatic prostate cancer.

    Comment:

    Commentary on: "Inherited DNA-repair gene mutations in men with metastatic prostate cancer." Pritchard CC, Mateo J, Walsh MF, De Sarkar N, Abida W, Beltran H, Garofalo A, Gulati R, Carreira S, Eeles R, Elemento O, Rubin MA, Robinson D, Lonigro R, Hussain M, Chinnaiyan A, Vinson J, Filipenko J, Garraway L, Taplin ME, AlDubayan S, Han GC, Beightol M, Morrissey C, Nghiem B, Cheng HH, Montgomery B, Walsh T, Casadei S, Berger M, Zhang L, Zehir A, Vijai J, Scher HI, Sawyers C, Schultz N, Kantoff PW, Solit D, Robson M, Van Allen EM, Offit K, de Bono J, Nelson PS. N Engl J Med. 2016 Aug 4;375(5):443-53.

    Comment:

    Re: Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    Letter, Commentary:

    Should we Perform Genetic Testing on Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer?

    Commentary:

    Commentary on "Inherited DNA-repair gene mutations in men with metastatic prostate cancer". Pritchard CC, Mateo J, Walsh MF, De Sarkar N, Abida W, Beltran H, Garofalo A, Gulati R, Carreira S, Eeles R, Elemento O, Rubin MA, Robinson D, Lonigro R, Hussain M, Chinnaiyan A, Vinson J, Filipenko J, Garraway L, Taplin ME, AlDubayan S, Han GC, Beightol M, Morrissey C, Nghiem B, Cheng HH, Montgomery B, Walsh T, Casadei S, Berger M, Zhang L, Zehir A, Vijai J, Scher HI, Sawyers C, Schultz N, Kantoff PW, Solit D, Robson M, Van Allen EM, Offit K, de Bono J, Nelson PS. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(5):443-53.

    News Release: Testing for inherited mutations could benefit men with advanced prostate cancer. (Fred Hutch)

    Press: Genetic testing can help deliver precision medicine to men with advanced prostate cancer. (Science Daily)

    Press: Metastatic Prostate Cancer Needs Genetic Testing; Here's Why. (Medscape Oncology)

    Blog post: All Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer Should Have Genetic Testing. (Michigan Health. Lab Report.)

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    Comments on NSGC Discussion Forum Cancer SIG

    Subject: BRCA2 c.9976A>T classification

    • Increased risk of male cancer and identification of a potential prostate cancer cluster region in BRCA2.
    • Roed Nielsen H, Petersen J, Therkildsen C, Skytte AB, Nilbert M.
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    • High burden of copy number alterations and c-MYC amplification in prostate cancer from BRCA2 germline mutation carriers.
    • Castro E, Jugurnauth-Little S, Karlsson Q, Al-Shahrour F, Piñeiro-Yañez E, Van de Poll F, Leongamornlert D, Dadaev T, Govindasami K, Guy M, Eeles R, Kote-Jarai Z; UKGPCS, EMBRACE and IMPACT studies.
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    • The role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in prostate, pancreatic and stomach cancers.
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    • Hered Cancer Clin Pract. 2015 Aug 1;13(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s13053-015-0038-x. eCollection 2015.

    Comments on NSGC Discussion Forum Cancer SIG

    Subject: BRCA2 familial mutation and gastric cancer

    • Altered significance of D'Amico risk classification in patients with prostate cancer linked to a familial breast cancer (kConFab) cohort.
    • Bolton D, Cheng Y, Willems-Jones AJ, Li J, Niedermeyr E, Mitchell G, Clouston D, Lawrentschuk N, Sliwinski A, Fox S, Thorne H.
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    • Effect of BRCA Mutations on Metastatic Relapse and Cause-specific Survival After Radical Treatment for Localised Prostate Cancer.
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    • Eur Urol. 2015 Aug;68(2):186-93. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.10.022. Epub 2014 Nov 6.

    Comment / Editorial:

    Clinical Management of Prostate Cancer in Men with BRCA Mutations.

    • Clinical Management of Prostate Cancer in Men with BRCA Mutations.
    • Bratt O, Loman N.
    • Eur Urol. 2015 Aug;68(2):194-5. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.11.005. Epub 2014 Nov 15.
    • Editorial / Commentary

    Effect of BRCA Mutations on Metastatic Relapse and Cause-specific Survival After Radical Treatment for Localised Prostate Cancer.

    • Finnish Fanconi anemia mutations and hereditary predisposition to breast and prostate cancer.
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    • Young-age prostate cancer.
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    • Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer.
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    • Cell. 2015 May 21;161(5):1215-28. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.05.001.

    Comment:

    Building a hit list for the fight against metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

    Commentary:

    Commentary on "Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer". Robinson D, Van Allen EM, Wu YM, Schultz N, Lonigro RJ, Mosquera JM, Montgomery B, Taplin ME, Pritchard CC, Attard G, Beltran H, Abida W, Bradley RK, Vinson J, Cao X, Vats P, Kunju LP, Hussain M, Feng FY, Tomlins SA, Cooney KA, Smith DC, Brennan C, Siddiqui J, Mehra R, Chen Y, Rathkopf DE, Morris MJ, Solomon SB, Durack JC, Reuter VE, Gopalan A, Gao J, Loda M, Lis RT, Bowden M, Balk SP, Gaviola G, Sougnez C, Gupta M, Yu EY, Mostaghel EA, Cheng HH, Mulcahy H, True LD, Plymate SR, Dvinge H, Ferraldeschi R, Flohr P, Miranda S, Zafeiriou Z, Tunariu N, Mateo J, Perez-Lopez R, Demichelis F, Robinson BD, Schiffman M, Nanus DM, Tagawa ST, Sigaras A, Eng KW, Elemento O, Sboner A, Heath EI, Scher HI, Pienta KJ, Kantoff P, de Bono JS, Rubin MA, Nelson PS, Garraway LA, Sawyers CL, Chinnaiyan AM.Cell. 21 May 2015;161(5):1215-1228.

    • Letters from iceland.
    • [No authors listed]
    • Nat Genet. 2015 Apr 28;47(5):425. doi: 10.1038/ng.3277.

    Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the Icelandic population.

    Research News:

    Largest set of human genomes from a single population is sequenced.

    • Cancer risks in Jewish male BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
    • Laitman Y, Keinan Boker L, Liphsitz I, Weissglas-Volkov D, Litz-Philipsborn S, Schayek H, Friedman E.
    • Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 Apr;150(3):631-5. doi: 10.1007/s10549-015-3340-4. Epub 2015 Mar 19.
    • Patient-derived Xenografts Reveal that Intraductal Carcinoma of the Prostate Is a Prominent Pathology in BRCA2 Mutation Carriers with Prostate Cancer and Correlates with Poor Prognosis.
    • Risbridger GP, Taylor RA, Clouston D, Sliwinski A, Thorne H, Hunter S, Li J, Mitchell G, Murphy D, Frydenberg M, Pook D, Pedersen J, Toivanen R, Wang H, Papargiris M, Lawrence MG, Bolton DM.
    • Eur Urol. 2015 Mar;67(3):496-503. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.08.007. Epub 2014 Aug 22.

    Editorial:

    A better understating of the morphological features and molecular characteristics of intraductal carcinoma helps clinicians further explain prostate cancer aggressiveness.

    • Cancers associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations other than breast and ovarian.
    • Mersch J, Jackson MA, Park M, Nebgen D, Peterson SK, Singletary C, Arun BK, Litton JK.
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    • Subgroups of familial and aggressive prostate cancer with considerable frequencies of BRCA2 mutations.
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    • The impact of a BRCA2 mutation on mortality from screen-detected prostate cancer.
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    Research news: Prostate cancer: Despite screening, BRCA2 associated with poorer survival. (Nature Reviews Urology)

    • Targeted prostate cancer screening in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: results from the initial screening round of the IMPACT study.
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    Comment:

    Prostate cancer: What is the real IMPACT of BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation?

    Editorial/Commentary:

    The clinical impact of genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer.

    • Aspirin Use is Associated with Lower Prostate Cancer Risk in Male Carriers of BRCA Mutations.
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    • Prostate cancer: What is the real IMPACT of BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation?
    • Clyne M.
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    • Editorial / Commentary

    Targeted prostate cancer screening in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: results from the initial screening round of the IMPACT study.

    • Telomere Length Shows No Association with BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Status.
    • Killick E, Tymrakiewicz M, Cieza-Borrella C, Smith P, Thompson DJ, Pooley KA, Easton DF, Bancroft E, Page E, Leongamornlert D; IMPACT collaborators, Kote-Jarai Z, Eeles RA.
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    • Clinical features and management of BRCA1 and BRCA2-associated prostate cancer.
    • Alanee SR, Glogowski EA, Schrader KA, Eastham JA, Offit K.
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    • BRCA1 and BRCA2 - update and implications on the genetics of breast cancer: a clinical perspective.
    • Foulkes W.
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    • Editorial / Commentary
    • BRCA1 and p53 regulate critical prostate cancer pathways.
    • De Luca P, Moiola CP, Zalazar F, Gardner K, Vazquez ES, De Siervi A.
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    • A personalised approach to prostate cancer screening based on genotyping of risk founder alleles.
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    • The role of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in prostate cancer.
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    • First Man Has Prostatectomy Because of BRCA Gene Mutation.
    • Zosia Chustecka.
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    • Germline BRCA Mutations Are Associated With Higher Risk of Nodal Involvement, Distant Metastasis, and Poor Survival Outcomes in Prostate Cancer.
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    Comment:

    Re: Germline BRCA mutations are associated with higher risk of nodal involvement, distant metastasis, and poor survival outcomes in prostate cancer.

    Research news:

    Patients with prostate cancer and BRCA2 mutations need urgent treatment.

    Press: Gene linked to more aggressive prostate cancer. (PHG Foundation)

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