Session: BRCA in men

Speaker: Mary Daly, MD

This 90-minute concurrent session will focus on the cancer risks and risk
management recommendations for men who carry a BRCA mutation.
Dr. Daly will discuss:

• lifetime and age-specific cancer risks for men with BRCA 1 and BRCA 2
• current risk-management recommendations for men with BRCA mutations
• emerging information and clinical trials looking at cancer risks in male BRCA carriers
• reasons why men might want to know their BRCA status
  

This session is appropriate for:

• men who carry a BRCA mutation
• parents/relatives/loved ones of men who carry a BRCA mutation
• patient advocates, support group facilitators, and people who work with men
  with a BRCA mutation
• health care providers who provide care to people with BRCA mutations
• social workers/mental health care professionals who treat people with BRCA mutations

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