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BRCA Mutation Testing Increasing in Younger Women

19th February 2016Daniel ReiselBRCA Journal Club

The proportion of women diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 years of age or younger who undergo BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing is increasing, according to a new study. In fact, the proportion went from 77% in 2006 to 95% in 2013, Shoshana M. Rosenberg, ScD, MPH, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and colleagues report in their study, which was published online February 11 in JAMA Oncology. Read more…

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