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Article: Testable Breast Cancer Genes Seen Shared With Ultra-Exotic Anemia, Up From Two To Eight.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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This year, an estimated 239,300 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S., and 40,200 will die of the disease.
A much rarer cancer-connected affliction, Fanconi anemia (FA), occurs in only some 500 American households. FA strikes one in 360,000 live births. The disease makes itself known at 7 years of age, on average, and death usually takes its small FA victims between their third and 13th birthday.
Until this year there was no obvious link between widespread breast cancer - mammary carcinoma - and the seldom-seen pediatric disorder, Fanconi anemia.
Now there is such a connection.
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