A new treatment for women at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer is a major breakthrough made by cancer researchers at Queen's University Belfast.. Currently around one in 1,000 women in the UK carry what is known as a BRCA1 mutation - the same condition that prompted well-known actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy. They have up to an 85 per cent risk of developing breast cancer, and up to 40 per cent risk of developing ovarian cancer, in their ...
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