Breast Cancer (Genetics)

BRCA1 Gene May Cause Other Non-Inherited Tumors

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 13th, 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 report.

The discovery, published in the November 3, 1995, issue of Science, suggested 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. 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 at high risk."

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-11-13)

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