Tuesday
Oct132009
Myth: Everyone who has a positive BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 will get breast cancer.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 21:46 FALSE. While women with a positive BRCA test have a much higher chance of breast cancer, it does not guarantee the development of the disease.
About 12 percent of women in the general population will develop breast cancer sometime during their lifetime. For women who have inherited a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2, that number is much higher. There is a lot of controversy about the exact rate, but it appears to be up to 5 times higher than for women without the mutation.
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