Chicago—Black women with breast cancer are less likely to undergo BRCA testing, and when given a BRCA-positive result, they may be less likely to undergo risk-reducing mastectomy and oophorectomy than non-Hispanic white and Hispanic women, according to an analysis women with invasive breast cancer identified through the Florida Cancer Registry.
“Our findings are concerning given that the benefit from genetic testing is not from testing itself, but from what people actually do with