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Testing is important in breast cancer precision medicine—care based on your unique health history and lifestyle. The right tests can help you and your team choose the most effective treatments.

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Getting tested for an inherited genetic mutation often means that at some point, you will share your results with family members. It can bring up many mixed feelings, ranging from anxiety and guilt to relief.

Certain patterns in your family’s health history may suggest that you or your relatives carry a gene mutation linked to breast cancer.

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Genetic counseling is the process of meeting with a genetic counselor to discuss your family health history and whether genetic testing is right for you. A genetic counselor is a healthcare provider.

Inherited genetic mutations passed on to us by our parents can cause hereditary breast cancer. Only about five to 10% of all breast cancers are linked to inherited gene mutations.

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Test results indicate whether you carry a gene mutation (positive), no mutation detected (negative), or a variant of uncertain significance—a gene change with unclear cancer risk implications.

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Some people are more likely than others to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Previvor is a term that’s often used to describe people who have a high risk of developing breast cancer.

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Inavolisib (Itovebi) is a new targeted therapy shown to reduce progression of certain hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, PIK3CA-positive metastatic breast cancers.

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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a testing technology that uses computers to look at hundreds of genes in cancer cells. The results can help guide treatment decisions.

A FISH test is a lab test performed on tissue taken from a biopsy or breast cancer surgery, that can confirm breast cancer’s HER2 status if other test results are inconclusive.