For cancer risk, some BRCA mutations are more dangerous than others

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 15:40 in Health & Medicine

Doctors have long recognized that women with mutations in two particular genes – BRCA1 and BRCA2 – have a higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Now they are starting to figure out which mutations are worse than others.

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