Counseling your patient about heritable breast cancer.

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The baseline frequency of breast cancer increases after age 30 from about 1% to about 10% by age 90. Breast cancer gene mutations cause much higher risks. Risks are nearly as high if two or more first-degree relatives (mother, sisters) had breast cancer when less than 50 years old. Risks are also elevated by occurrence of breast cancer at young ages in second-degree relatives (grandmothers, aunts). Certain rare...

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