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BRCA Gene Does Not Increase Breast Cancer Death, New Study
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Submitted by preity 18 months, 5 days, 15 hours ago
A new study shows that rates of death due to breast cancer among Israeli Ashkenazi women who carried either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene variant were no different to the rates for women who were non carriers. The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and was the work of Dr Gad Rennert, of Clalit Health Services, National Cancer Control Center and Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel and colleagues also in Israel and Canada.
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