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ArticleCureus2026

Multifocal Breast Cancer With Discordant Molecular Profiles in a Patient With NF1 and MUTYH Germline Variants: A Case Report.

Lisa Su, Alan Y Lu, Mohan Narasimhamurthy

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lisa SuPathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, USA.
Alan Y LuPathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA.
Mohan NarasimhamurthyPathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The identification of synchronous breast cancers with inter-tumor heterogeneity presents significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, particularly in cases of discordant biomarker profiles. We report the case of a 66-year-old African American female with a significant family history of cancer, including two sisters diagnosed with breast cancer at ages 29 and 32. Diagnostic imaging revealed two synchronous right breast masses with similar high-grade histomorphology but discordant molecular profiles, with the larger focus being hormone receptor-negative and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive, and the smaller focus being triple-negative. Initial germline testing identified a heterozygous variant of uncertain significance (VUS) in

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her2-positivemultifocal breast cancermutyh mutationnf1 mutationtriple-negative breasttumor heterogeneityvariant of uncertain significance (vus)

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PMID41694968
PMCPMC12904847

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