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Article: GENETIC ROLE IN BREAST CANCER FAMILY HISTORY NOT ONLY FACTOR.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 18, 1996
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Women with no family history of breast cancer, especially some European Jews, still may be put at risk for the deadly disease by the same faulty gene in hereditary breast cancer, according to scientists in Seattle and Boston.
Although researchers do not know what proportion of breast cancer cases are caused by genetic flaws, two studies of almost 500 young breast cancer patients reported in today's New England Journal of Medicine indicate bad genes play a significant role, especially when the cancer strikes in younger women.
``About 10 percent of the women who had breast cancer under age 35 have a mutated copy of this gene,'' said Elaine Ostrander, a ...