Breast Cancer Risk Models Flawed, Genes Can Come From Father

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tools used to predict whether a woman’s breast cancer is inherited do not account for smaller families and may leave some women in the dark about their risk for future cancers, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday."You’ve got to have family to have a family history of breast cancer,” said Dr. Jeffrey Weitzel of the City of Hope cancer center in Duarte, California.

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