Do Vitamin B supplements alter breast cancer risk for women with BRCA mutations?

Questions To Ask Your Health Care Provider

• Is it appropriate for me to use Vitamin B supplements?
• How much Vitamin B should I take?
• What impact will vitamin use have on my health? on my breast cancer risk?
• Will increasing the Vitamin B in my diet make a difference?
• Can you refer me to a nutritionist?

Open Clinical Trials

The following are breast cancer screening or prevention studies enrolling people at high risk for breast cancer.   

• NCT04711109: Denosumab for Preventing Breast Cancer in Women with a BRCA1 Inherited Mutation (BRCA-P). This study will test the effectiveness of a drug (denosumab) in preventing the development of breast cancer in women with an inherited BRCA1 mutation.
• NCT04067726: Denosumab and Mammographic Density in Premenopausal Women With Dense Breasts (TRIDENT). This study is looking at the drug denosumab to learn if it can reduce breast density in high-risk premenopausal women who have dense breasts. 
• The Risk Factor Analysis of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer In Women  with BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 Mutations. This study seeks to improve researchers’ understanding of how hormonal, reproductive and lifestyle factors may be associated with cancer in high-risk people.
• NCT02620852: Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk (WISDOM) study. The goal of this study is to determine if breast cancer screening can be improved by personalizing each woman’s mammogram schedule, compared to the current one-size-fits-all annual approach.

• NCT04674306: Adjuvant Therapy With an Alpha-lactalbumin Vaccine in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. This study is testing a new vaccine to lower the risk of breast cancer in high-risk women with an inherited mutation in BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2. 

Additional risk-management clinical trials for people at high risk for breast cancer may be found here.