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Breast Cancer (Genetics)
BRCA1 Gene May Cause Non-Inherited Tumors
November 20th, 1995
The gene that is thought to suppress breast cancer is somehow getting lost inside some women's cells so that it cannot do its job, University of Texas scientists reported. The discovery, unveiled in the journal Science, suggests the gene BRCA1 plays a role in non-inherited breast cancer as well as the hereditary kind. "This finding needs to be confirmed," cautioned cancer expert Dr. William Wood of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. But it is "a very exciting tease." "It means a mechanism we're already learning about may be much more broadly important than our initial thought that it would affect just a small group of families...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1995-11-20)
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