Only women with Western Swedish breast cancer gene run higher risk of ovarian cancer

Monday, April 5, 2010 - 13:56 in Health & Medicine

Previous research has shown that women with breast cancer are more likely than other women to develop ovarian cancer, but now researchers from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have shown that actually only women with a known Western Swedish mutation behind hereditary breast cancer run this increased risk of ovarian cancer.

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