No higher risk of breast cancer for women who don't have BRCA mutation but have relatives who do
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have shown that women related to a patient with a breast cancer caused by a hereditary mutation -- but who don't have the mutation themselves -- have no higher risk of getting cancer than relatives of patients with other types of breast cancer.