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=== Family history === * '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Criteria for "strong" family history (2):</span>''' *# '''<span style="color:#ff0000">β₯1 brother or father OR β₯2 male relatives with one of the following (3):</span>''' *##'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Diagnosed with prostate cancer at age <60 years</span>''' *##'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Any of whom died of prostate cancer</span>''' *##'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Any of whom had metastatic prostate cancer.</span>''' *#'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Family history of other cancers with β₯2 cancers in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome or Lynch syndrome spectrum.</span>''' *#*<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome'''</span> *#**'''Most commonly associated with mutations in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene''' *#**'''See associated cancers above''' *#*<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Lynch syndrome'''</span> *#**'''Also known as hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC)''' *#**'''Due to inherited mutations in genes (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2, and EPCAM) that affect DNA mismatch repair''' *#**'''<span style="color:#ff0000">Associated cancers (10)</span>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431096/]''' *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Colorectal'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Gastric'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Ovarian'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Small bowel'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Upper tract urothelial carcinoma'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Biliary tract'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Pancreatic'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Brain cancers (glioblastoma)'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Sebaceous gland adenomas'''</span> *#**#<span style="color:#ff0000">'''Keratoacanthomas'''</span> * '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Patients with a "strong" family history should ideally be genotyped</span>''' **Genotype is to ascertain whether there is presence of a pathogenic variant (e.g., BRCA1/2, Lynch Syndrome, ATM, CHEK2) or one or more of a growing set of identified germline DNA damage-repair mutations found in patients with metastatic prostate cancer diagnoses.
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