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Non-BRCA hereditary breast cancer linked to new cancers
The risk for a new cancer in the unaffected breast substantially increases in women diagnosed with unilateral, hereditary (non-BRCA) breast cancer, according to a new study. Published in the March 15, 2006 issue of CANCER ( ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals women under 50 diagnosed with hereditary (non-BRCA) breast cancer are at significantly greater ris...
BRCA1 gene found to inhibit two sex hormones, not just one
It's been known that the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 regulates use of estrogen in breast and other cells, but now researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that it also controls activity of a second sex steroid hormone, progesterone.... ...The findings, conducted in cell culture and in mice and reported by the researchers in the January issue of Molecular End...