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Publication — IRIC

First case report of an adrenocortical carcinoma caused by a BRCA2 mutation.

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) may rarely be a component of inherited cancer syndromes such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome and Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. ACC caused by a BRCA2 mutation has never been reported.

Publication date
September 1, 2016
Principal Investigators
El Ghorayeb N, Grunenwald S, Nolet S, Primeau V, Côté S, Maugard CM, Lacroix A, Gaboury L, Bourdeau I
PubMed reference
Medicine (Baltimore) 2016;95(36):e4756
PubMed ID
27603373
Affiliation
aDivision of Endocrinology bDepartment of Pathology cDivision of Clinical Genetics, Department of Medicine and Research Center (CRCHUM), Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.