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Article: FAMILY HISTORY RAISES BREAST CANCER RISK EVEN WITHOUT FAULTY GENE
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- January 20, 2009
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London, Jan. 20 -- (ANI): Women with a family history of breast cancer are four times more likely to develop breast cancer than other women - even if they don't have high-risk genes, according to a new study.
For the study, scientists looked for the first time at the risk of getting the disease for women who do not have a faulty gene but have family members who have developed breast cancer.
About one in six women with breast cancer have a family history of the disease, which means about 13 per cent of all sufferers have a strong family record of it, but do not have a faulty gene.
The researchers looked at women who had ...