Michael D. ToboniHaller J. SmithSarah E. DilleyLea NovakCharles A. Leath
•The first woman with a Malignant Brenner tumor and a BRCA2 mutation is described.•Not all women with epithelial ovarian cancers are referred for genetic counseling.•Women should be referred for genetics regardless of how rare the histology.
We give a treatment of the Brenner-Monsky example based on polynomial algebra and linear algebra. No prior knowledge of tight closure theory, Hilbert-Kunz theory, algebraic geometry or local cohomology is assumed.
