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Title: Ovary Removal Lowers Odds of Cancer in High-Risk Women (HealthDay)
Post by: riky on January 13, 2009, 11:01:43 PM
Ovary Removal Lowers Odds of Cancer in High-Risk Women
    (HealthDay)

 



HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Removing the ovaries of
women with a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer due to mutations in
BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes does substantially reduce their risk of getting both
cancers, a new study confirms.


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