Gene increases risk of breast cancer to one in three by age 70

Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 12:33 in Health & Medicine

Medical researchers have studied breast cancer risks for one of potentially the most important genes associated with breast cancer after the BRCA1/2 genes. Women with mutations in the PALB2 gene have on average a one in three chance of developing breast cancer by the age of 70.

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