New breast cancer gene mutation found to raise risk

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New breast cancer gene mutation found to raise risk

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/breast-cancer-gene-mutation-found-raise-risk-214959513.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aPt3_54N5U7r3aXqwzi5Bg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c9c41ca0be6a4f0cde08e123fcfe4ac12d592884.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman gets a mammogram to screen for breast cancer on May 15, 2001 in Putanges, France" align="left" title="A woman gets a mammogram to screen for breast cancer on May 15, 2001 in Putanges, France" border="0" /></a>A newly discovered gene mutation significantly raises a woman's risk of breast cancer and may be considered the third such inherited gene flaw known to science, researchers said Wednesday. Women with mutations in the PALB2 gene face a one in three chance of getting breast cancer by age 70, said the findings in the New England Journal of Medicine. The other two known gene mutations associated with breast cancer risk, BRCA1 and BRCA2, have been linked to a 55-65 percent likelihood of developing breast cancer by age 70. &quot;Since the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations were discovered in the mid-90s, no other genes of similar importance have been found and the consensus in the scientific community if more exist we would have found them by now,&quot; said lead author Marc Tischkowitz from the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Cambridge.</p><br clear="all"/>

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