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Rare gene reduces breast-cancer risk, say Quebec hospital and drug developer.
A group of hospital researchers working with a drug-development company claimed Thursday to have identified a genetic rarity that cuts in half the risk of breast cancer. Canadian women are sometimes forced to wait up to three excruciating months to learn if they have breast cancer after receiving an abnormal test result, says a new study. Removing the healthy breasts of women with genetic mutations that often trigger breast cancer can save their lives, Dutch researchers found in the strongest study yet to show that the controversial strategy works. It's easy for any woman to reduce her risk of breast cancer. All she has to do is never gain weight, not that I'm implying that it's ever easy to keep weight down.