Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Newly Discovered Breast Cancer Gene Mutation

A newly discovered breast cancer gene mutation doubles a woman's risk of breast cancer has been discovered in the United Kingdom. This mutation is known as BRIP1 carries the same risk as CHEK2 and ATM gene mutations which are not as dangerous as the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations which increase the risk by 10 or 20 times.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219302,00.html?sPage=fnc.health/cancer

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