Breast Cancer

50,000 sisters of women with breast cancer recruited for U.S. study

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 20th, 2002

At the September 2002 Tampa Bay-area Race for the Cure, medical researchers began recruiting women for a unique effort to determine the causes of breast cancer - the "Sister Study." Researchers hope to eventually enroll 50,000 women volunteers nationally, ages 35 to 74, whose sisters have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Sisters of women with breast cancer are known to be at greater risk of breast cancer - up to twice the risk of other women. By following these sisters for 10 years, the researchers hope to find out why.

Is it genes they shared' A common diet' Early menstruation' A household or environmental chemical' A gene-environment...

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