Risk of breast cancer mutations underestimated for Asian women
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 18:49
in Health & Medicine
Oncologist Allison Kurian, MD, and her colleagues at the Stanford University School of Medicine were perplexed. Computer models designed to identify women who might have dangerous genetic mutations that increase their risk of breast and ovarian cancer worked well for white women. But they seemed to be less reliable for another ethnic group...
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