Jun 06
22
Breast Cancer Gene of European Origin Found to Great Increase Risk
Well, there’s been good news and bad news in the fight to cure breast cancer, or at least reduce the incidence of it. Researchers have just found a gene in women of European origin that can greatly increase their risk of developing the prominent female disease.
This newly discovered breast cancer gene is said to work in combination with the better known genes identified as the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, to raise the risk of breast cancer by as much as 80% in women.
Not only that, but further findings on this new gene suggest that women with specific mutations in two of the genes have an almost certain risk of developing breast cancer at some point in their life. Like I said, seems like we make great strides one day, and find out devastating news the next!
