Breast+Cancer-Genetics

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 * Most cases of breast cancer are not inherited.
 * These cancers are associated with genetic changes that occur only in breast cancer cells and occur during a person's lifetime.
 * BRCA1, BRCA2, CDH1, PTEN, STK11, and TP53 are genes that increase the risk of breast cancer.
 * Their are more than 178,000 new cases of breast cancer each year.



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