Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Options for Women With Family History of Breast Cancer

The "take-away" message from the research, in which 1,492 women with first-degree breast cancer relatives were studied, is this, Metcalfe says:

"Having a BRCA mutation is the greatest risk factor for developing breast cancer. However, we still need to be very aware of a woman's family history of breast cancer, even without a mutation."


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