Breast Cancer

Pregnancies lower breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 19th, 2006

Good news for women with inherited mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes: a woman's risk to develop breast cancer after age 40 lowers after multiple pregnancies. This is the result of the International BRCA1/2 Carrier Cohort Study (IBCCS), in which the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) is involved.

It is known that women with mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have an increased breast cancer risk. In the general population, factors such as multiple pregnancies, first pregnancy at a young age and breastfeeding have a protective effect. But what about mutation carriers' In order to shed light on this and other questions, a number of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-06-19)

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