PDA

View Full Version : Family History Ups Breast Cancer Risk Even Without BRCA Gene (HealthDay) (Yahoo)




NewsBot
11-17-2008, 08:40 PM
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of breast cancer for a woman with a strong family history is four times higher than that of the general population -- even if she does not carry one of the breast cancer-linked mutations of the BRCA gene, a new study finds.

Read the full article... (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/diseases/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20081118/hl_hsn/familyhistoryupsbreastcancerriskevenwithoutbrcagen e)

(From Yahoo Diseases)