Breast Cancer Gene Mutations May Elude Standard Tests
21st Mar 2006, 21:10 GMT
SEATTLE - Standard testing for mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes apparently misses about 12% of patients at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, researchers here reported. About another 5% of high-risk women have other cancer susceptibility gene mutations.
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