We’ve all been reading about how technology combined with genetics-minded science have been coming up with some pretty mind blowing ways to help determine whether a woman is more prone to getting breast cancer at a certain point in her life or not, but there are newer and better ways being developed every day that we hear about that sound even better than the last one.  This newer battery of tests sounds like they may have finally hit the mother load in a more comprehensive series of answers to qestions that give a  more reliable idea of whether a woman is susceptible or not.

The newer way is combining answers to questions about a womans background, her age, of course her genes which are still tested for certain genetic markers that are linked with higher incidence of breast cancer, when a woman first gave birth or has ever been pregnant, and when a woman first got her period. 

All of these answers are combined into a sort of formula, and along with the results of a genetic test that is believe it or not, taken by a woman gargling with a special mouthwash and spitting it out (apparently the cheek cells that are washed out provide genetic clues that are valuable), and the result is, they say, a better and more on-target idea of whether women are more at rist to develop breast cancer or not. 

However, scientists do caution that not every woman may want to have these tests, as they are not perfected and no one can vouch that they are 100% accurate or even that they warrant such radical moves as getting double mastectomies or taking hormone blocking drugs, a move that is increasingly more widespread by women who fear they are doomed to getting breast cancer. 

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