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A BRCA Gene Mutation in the Family Does Not Increase Cancer Risk for Those Without the Mutation

For women who do not have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation, having a close relative with one of these mutations does not increase breast cancer risk. These results were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Inherited mutations in two genes—BRCA1 and BRCA2—have been found to greatly increase the lifetime risk of developing breast [...]