Two studies find new genetic links to ovarian cancer risk

Sunday, September 19, 2010 - 16:21 in Health & Medicine

Cancer researchers have identified four chromosome locations with genetic changes that are likely to alter a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer. Researchers say that while more needs to be learned about the function of the specific chromosomal regions involved in susceptibility, the discoveries move them a major step closer to individualized risk assessments for ovarian cancer.

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