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Cancer, breast, familial: A number of factors have been identified that increase the risk of breast cancer. One of the strongest of these risk factors is the history of breast cancer in a relative. About 15-20% of women with breast cancer have such a family history of the disease, clearly reflecting the participation of inherited (genetic) components in the development of some breast cancers. Dominant breast cancer susceptibility genes, including BRCA1 and BRCA2, appear responsible for about 5% of all breast cancer.
A US Department of Health and Human Service project providing information on genetic and rare diseases. A comprehensive body of resources on Breast cancer, familial
Familial breast cancer: A number of factors have been identified that increase the risk of breast cancer. One of the strongest of these risk factors is the history of ...
The summary of the published clinical guideline on Familial breast cancer. It links to the published guidance and key documents.
Familial breast cancer is important because of all the known risk factors associated with developing the disease. The one with the most predictability is a positive ...
There is much debate in the literature about familial predispositions to breast and bowel cancers yet little evidence is forthcoming to suggest that there are ...