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Breast Cancer
Understanding personal genetic risk for familial breast cancer eases anxieties
May 2nd, 2007
Services that help women understand the way that their inherited genetic make-up influences their risk of getting breast cancer ease distress and decrease their levels of cancer worry. There is, however, insufficient evidence to make recommendations about the best way of delivering these services. These findings came from a Cochrane Systematic Review of data contained in five papers that reported trials in which a total of 1251 women were given a risk assessment that helped them understand their individual risk of getting cancer. Current research is revealing much about the way that a person's genes influence their risk of breast cancer....
Source: Biotech Week (2007-05-02)
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