[Carcinoma of the fallopian tube after prophylactic laparoscopic ovariectomy in a patient with a BRCAI mutation]
Publication year
2003Source
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 147, 18, (2003), pp. 877-9ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Organization
Gynaecology
Journal title
Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
Volume
vol. 147
Issue
iss. 18
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p. 877
Page end
p. 9
Subject
UMCN 1.4: Immunotherapy, gene therapy and transplantationAbstract
A 48-year-old woman with a distended abdomen appeared to have ascites and was admitted to the gynaecological ward. At the age of 31 years she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone surgical breast conservation of the right breast. There was a history of both ovarian cancer and breast cancer in her family. Genetic evaluation showed that she was carrying a BRCAI germline mutation. At the age of 42 years she underwent a prophylactic bilateral laparoscopic ovariectomy and 5 years later she underwent a complete mastectomy due to breast carcinoma of the left breast. Two months later she developed ascites, a raised CA125 level and on a CT scan carcinoma of the peritoneum. During the laparotomy a fallopian tube carcinoma was found. After the uterus, fallopian tubes and omentum had been surgically removed, chemotherapy took place. The patient tolerated this well and the CA125 value decreased. Recently, the first molecular evidence was found that linked fallopian tube cancer to germline mutations in BRCAI patients. Patients harbouring a BRCA germline mutation not only have an increased risk of ovarian carcinoma but also of fallopian tube carcinoma. Therefore, in patients with a BRCA mutation, prophylactic surgery should take the form of an adnexectomy, not an oophorectomy.
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