Participate in a world-first clinical trial
to prevent breast cancer in women with the
BRCA1 gene mutation.





Familial Aspects of Cancer
Research and Practice 2024
27th August - 30th August 2024

Australian Colorectal Cancer Family Study
Australian Breast Cancer Family Study
Family Cancer Clinics of Australia and New Zealand
International Sarcoma Kindred Study
kConFab

Latest News
Familial Aspects of Cancer Research and Practice - Tuesday 29th August – Friday 1st September 2023.
Latest Publications
Copy number variants as modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers.Communications Biology 2022.
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Risks of breast and ovarian cancer for women harboring pathogenic missense variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 compared with those harboring protein truncating variants. Genet Med 2022.
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Weight is More Informative than Body Mass Index for Predicting Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk: Prospective Family Study Cohort (ProF-SC). Cancer Prev Res 2022.
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About kConFab

The Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Aspects of Breast Cancer (kConFab) brings together geneticists, clinicians, community representatives, surgeons, genetic counsellors, psychosocial researchers, pathologists and epidemiologists from all over Australia and New Zealand who believe the causes and consequences of familial predisposition to breast cancer can be understood only by a concerted national effort at both the basic and clinical level.

In 1997, kConFab, with the help of the Family Cancer centres in Australia and New Zealand began enrolling families with a strong history of breast and breast/ovarian cancer. Genetic, epidemiological, medical and psychosocial data collected from these families by kConFab are stored in a de-identified fashion in a central relational database. Biospecimens collected from family members are used to characterise germ-line mutations in predisposing genes such as BRCA1, BRCA2, ATM, PALB2, p53, PTEN. kConFab has accumulated data on more than 1,900 multigenerational, multi-case kindreds.

kConFab itself is not a research organisation in the usual sense, but rather provides a resource upon which researchers can draw. The aims of the consortium are to make data and biospecimens widely available to researchers for use in peer-reviewed, ethically-approved funded research projects on familial aspects of breast cancer. At present, kConFab is supplying biological specimens and data to more than 180 research projects world wide.

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