Familial versus sporadic breast cancer.

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BACKGROUND: Studies comparing patients with familial and sporadic breast cancer have indicated that a family history of the disease can increase a woman's risk for having the disease twofold to threefold and that patients with familial breast cancer have a younger age at diagnosis and have a higher frequency of bilateral disease than those with sporadic breast cancer. Also, at least four types of breast cancers...

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