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Oncology: breast cancer gene linked to ovarian cancer in Western Sweden

Evidentia - 6th August 2010 3:18 pm

A new study has shown a startling link between ovarian cancer and a rare gene mutation that causes breast cancer in a Swedish region with above average cancer rates.

Previous research has shown that women with breast cancer are more likely than other women to develop ovarian cancer. Now researchers from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg have shown that, in Western Sweden, only women with the mutation behind hereditary breast cancer run this increased risk of ovarian cancer.

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