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BRCA gene: see breast cancer breast cancer, cancer that originates in the breast. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (following lung cancer). Even allowing for improvements in detection (i.e.
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No references found | The disease is already known to be associated with the two breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. Women with BRCA1 mutations often develop "basal-like" breast cancer, which is a particularly aggressive form of the disease. High-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility genes The identification of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the last decade of the twentieth century was a major advance in the understanding of breast cancer susceptibility. |
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