Some public health issues in the current state of genetic testing for breast cancer in Australia.

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Two genes associated with a high breast cancer risk (BRCA1 and BRCA2) have been discovered recently from study of large breast-cancer-dense kindreds. It is problematic to make inferences from these atypical families to the general population. Nevertheless, it appears that about 1 to 2 per cent of all breast cancer may be due to rare deleterious mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2. The majority of breast cancer families...

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