Significant Number Of Older Women With Breast Cancer May Have Genetic Mutations That Put Them At Risk Of Ovarian, Other Cancers

HealthDay  (3/10, Gordon) reports, “A significant number of older women with breast cancer may have genetic mutations that put them at risk of additional cancers, particularly ovarian cancer, a new study  finds.” In the study, published March 10 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “the researchers said that as many as one in 40 postmenopausal women with breast cancer before age 65 has a mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.”

        Healio  (3/10, Southall) also covers the study.