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Breast Cancer
Research on breast cancer described by scientists at Stanford University, Medical Department
November 27th, 2008
" There are established differences in breast cancer epidemiology between Asian and white individuals, but little is known about hereditary breast cancer in Asian populations. Although increasing numbers of Asian individuals are clinically tested for BRCA1/2 mutations, it is not known whether computer models that predict mutations work accurately in Asian individuals," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology report. "We compared the performance in Asian and white individuals of two widely used BRCA1/2 mutation prediction models, BRCAPRO and Myriad II. Patients and Methods We evaluated BRCAPRO and Myriad II in 200 Asian individuals and a matched...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-11-27)
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