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Lifetime Cancer Risk Is High in Unaffected Postmenopausal BRCA Carriers
Cancer Risk Is High in Unaffected BRCA Carriers
B. Jancin
20080003
2008 Jan 3
Elsevier Global Medical News
Lifetime Cancer Risk Is High in Unaffected Postmenopausal BRCA Carriers
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Jan 3, B. Jancin
SAN ANTONIO (EGMN) - Postmenopausal women with no personal history of cancer who are found to be BRCA mutation carriers face very high and yet largely underappreciated risks of breast and ovarian cancer during their remaining life span, Dr. Jeffrey Tice reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.Indeed, the lifetime risks of breast cancer and ovarian cancer are roughly 50% in a 55-year-old woman with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, according to Dr. Tice of the University of California, San Francisco.Most...