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Old 11-17-2008, 09:40 PM
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Default Family History Ups Breast Cancer Risk Even Without BRCA Gene (HealthDay) (Yahoo)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of breast cancer for a woman with a strong family history is four times higher than that of the general population -- even if she does not carry one of the breast cancer-linked mutations of the BRCA gene, a new study finds.

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