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Cancer Genetics

Findings in cancer genetics provide new insights

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 17th, 2005

Reports from Canada, Poland and Belgium highlight recent research on cancer genetics.

Study 1: Researchers with the Montreal General Hospital reported in 1998 "that a significant proportion of breast and/or ovarian cancer families of French Canadian descent harbor specific germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 attributed to common founders."

Now, in a paper in the International Journal of Cancer, the team has determined "the frequency of previously described mutations (n=7) and 13 mutations identified in French Canadian families since 1998, in a new group of families (n=88)."

K.K. Oros and colleagues reported, "Four of the...

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