Iceland scientists tie mutation in a second gene to added breast cancer risk

June 20th, 2006 in Medicine & Health /

Icelandic women with a bad gene that raises their risk of breast cancer were virtually certain to develop the disease if they also had a mutation in a second gene, scientists reported Monday.

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