An international team of researchers, led by Dr. William Foulkes of McGill University’s Program in Cancer Genetics and Chief of Cancer Genetics, Jewish General Hospital Cancer Prevention Centre, has linked a particular genetic mutation to increased risk for breast cancer. The discovery, reached after more than a decade of studying two families in Montreal with particularly high rates of breast cancer, is published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).>>> Discuss This Story
