Research Suggests Negative BRCA Testing May Not Always Imply Lowered Breast Cancer Risk

New research suggests that women who test negative for the family-specific BRCA2 mutations are still at greater risk for developing breast cancer compared with women in the general population. The study is published in iCancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers (and) Prevention/i, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research/a. Women with certain mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at increased risk for breast cancer. However, if a woman who comes from ...

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