615 Background: While many genes are now known to be associated with hereditary kidney cancer syndromes, there is a paucity of guidelines or uniform consensus on genetic testing for these patients. An expert panel was organized to assess who, what, when and how patients should be evaluated and what testing should be initiated. Methods: A national, multidisciplinary, panel of experts in urology, medical oncology, clinical geneticists, genetic counselors and patient advocates with background and knowledge in hereditary syndromic kidney cancer convened in person in September 2019. A renal cell carcinoma (RCC) genetic risk assessment questionnaire consisting of 52 questions was compiled prior to the meeting using modified Delphi methodology. The questions were then discussed and reviewed with uniform consensus defined as a minimum of 85% agreement in accordance with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network criteria. Results: The panel consisted of twenty-six attendees represented by urologists (43%), medical oncologist (23%), genetic counselors (13%), clinical geneticists (7%), and patient advocates (3%). The questionnaire consisted of fifty-five statements focusing on who, what, when and how genetic testing should be performed in a patient suspected of hereditary RCC syndrome. A >85% agreement was reached on 30/52 statements with 18/25 (72%) achieving consensus addressing “who”, 2/6 (33%) achieving consensus in “what’ category, 2/7 (29%) in ‘when’ and 4/6 (67%) on how. The questions with least consensus were found in the “what/when?” category with only 4/13 questions with minimum 85% agreement. Specific areas of debate included an age cutoff for prompting a genetic risk assessment as well as need for familial testing in patients with variants of unknown significance. Conclusions: Despite experience of the panel in management of hereditary RCC, the consensus was reached only on 66% of genetic testing. While many issues will need to be discussed further, those statements with consensus may be used to guide physicians and patients on who, what, when and how genetic RCC risk assessment should be performed.
Cancer genetic risk assessment for individuals at risk of familial breast cancer
