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Towards a dietary prevention of hereditary breast cancer.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Mar 2005
Kotsopoulos Joanne, Narod Steven A
Abstract excerpt
Inheritance of a deleterious mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 confers a high lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. Variation in penetrance between individuals suggests that factors other than the gene mutation itself may influence the risk of cancer in susceptible women. Several risk factors have been identified which implicate estrogen-induced growth stimulation as a probable contributor to breast cancer...
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