http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/10-07-2006/83158-cancer-0
Genetic abnormality leads to breast cancer, study says
07/10/2006 18:33
Researchers screened 433 patients who had a family history of cancer and
a control group of 521 women. A certain damaged gene, carried by about 2
percent of all families, more than doubled the risk for breast cancer by age
70, the scientists said in today's issue of Nature Genetics, according to
Bloomberg.
Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research have quantified for the
first time the risk of developing breast cancer for women who carry damaged ATM
genes - a genetic fault that affects 0.5% to 1% of the population.
They found that women who carried the damaged gene increase their risk of
breast cancer by the time they are 70 from one in 12 to around one in six.
The risk is thought to be greater for women in families with multiple
cases of the disease. For women in these families, the findings are likely to
mean they will be routinely screened for the faulty gene in the future. Those
carrying it will be able to consider whether to have preventative mastectomies
to prevent the disease, Guardian Unlimited reports.
Scientists hope that by discovering this new information, they can be
better equipped to manufacture new methods of treating the disease, Dog Flu
Diet and Diseases reports.
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