Relatives of women with faulty gene have high risk of breast cancer
2nd Nov 2005, 18:36 GMT
Relatives of women who carry a damaged version of the CHEK2 gene and have cancer in both breasts have a substantially higher lifetime risk of breast cancer than those related to non-carriers, according to a study in this week's issue of The Lancet. Women who have a faulty version of the CHEK2 gene called CHEK2*1100delC have double the chance of developing breast cancer when compared with non-carriers... click link for more info.
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