A non-interventional, multicenter study to assess prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation among ovarian, primary peritoneal, and fallopian tube cancer patients in India.

Abstract

e13073 Background: BRCA1 and BRCA2 are tumour suppressor genes.1,2 Functional BRCA proteins regulate cell growth and prevent abnormal cell division that might lead to tumour development. Approximately 17% (Range 3 – 27 %) of ovarian cancer patients worldwide have a BRCA mutation.3 This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of germline BRCA mutations among previously and newly diagnosed ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer patients in India. Methods: This is a non-interventional, cross-sectional, multicenter, prospective, observational study conducted at 15 sites from different geographical regions across India. The study targets to enroll 240 patients over 6 months. The calculated sample size for this study is 228, assuming 5 % precision and a dropout rate of 10 %. The study enrolled females with new or previous diagnosis of ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer. No study medication was administered as a part of study procedure. Results: In the interim analysis performed on the first 100 enrolled patients, 22% of Ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer patients were found to be BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation positive (CI 0.1433-0.3139). 52% of these enrolled patients were found to have serous histopathology, 23.1% of which were found to be BRCA1/2 positive. The percentage of BRCA1/2 mutation status in patients who had a family history of ovarian or breast cancer was found to be 66.7% and 62.5% respectively. Conclusions: In this study, the prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations among patients with ovarian, primary peritoneal and fallopian tube cancer patients in the first 100 patients enrolled was found to be 22%.