Case Report

Association between Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Breast Cancer: A Report of Two Cases with a Review of the Literature

Table 1

Summary of previously reported NF1 patients with breast cancer.

AuthorAge (yr)Family history of breast cancerGene mutationStageMolecular subtypeCharacteristics

Brasfield and Das Gupta [8]5 patients
McMillan and Edwards [9]27NANANANA
Hiraide et al. [10]32NANANANA
el-Zawahry et al. [11] 2 patients
Vilar Sanchis and Vazquez Albaladejo [12]1 patient
Hollo way et al. [13]68NANAIIANAMale
Nakamura et al. [14]49NANANANA
Murayama et al. [15]66NANAIIANA
Ceccaroni et al. [16]66DaughterNANANA
Satgé et al. [17]234 auntsNANANA
Güran and Safali [18] 23MotherNANANA
52DaughterNANANA
Posada and Chakmakjian [19]74NoNAIIANA
Kawawa et al. [20]66NoNAIIBLuminal Paget’ disease
Natsiopoulos et al. [21]60NoNAIIBMetaplastic carcinoma
Hasson et al. [22]49NoNAIBLuminal
Invernizzi et al. [23]60NANAIALuminal
Alamsamimi et al. [24]51SisterNAIIALuminal Synchronous bilateral breast cancer
Salemis et al. [25]59NoNAIIBLuminal
Bhargava et al. [26] 58NANANANA
Takeuchi et al. [27] 76NANAIIANAMetachronous contralateral breast cancer
Zhou et al. [28]48NANAIALuminal
Campos et al. [29] 35MotherNANANonluminal
40DaughterBRCA1 IVNA
Cheuk et al. [30]42NANANANA
Jinkala et al. [31] 69NANANANA
Nogimori et al. [32]1 patient
Vivas et al. [33]53NANAIVHER2Metaplastic carcinoma
Lakshmaiah et al. [34]55NoNAIIBLuminalMale
Chaudhry et al. [35]46NoNAIIIAHER2Metaplastic carcinoma
Da Silva et al. [36]54No NAIAHER2
Jeon et al. [37] 21No NoIIBLuminal
30NoNAIIALuminal Metachronous contralateral breast cancer
Khalil et al. [38]39NANAIIIALuminal
Zöller et al. [2]2 breast cancers in 70 NF1 patients (2.8%)
Walker et al. [3]5 breast cancers in 448 NF1 patients (1.1%)
Sharif et al. [4]14 breast cancers in 304 NF1 patients (4.6%)
Madanikia et al. [5]4 breast cancers in 126 NF1 patients (3.2%)
Wang et al. [6]15 breast cancers in 76 NF1 patients (19.7%)
Seminog and Goldacre [7]52 breast cancers in 3855 NF1 patients (1.3%)

NF1: neurofibromatosis type 1; NA: not assessable; luminal: estrogen receptor (ER) or progesterone receptor (PR) positive; nonluminal: ER and PR negative; HER2: ER and PR negative and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive.
Neurofibromatosis patient.
Mother-daughter relationship.