A new study conservatively estimates that one in five women with ovarian cancer has inherited genetic mutations that increase the risk of the disease, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Most women in the study would have been unaware of a genetic predisposition to ovarian cancer because they didn’t have strong family histories that suggested it. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Kanchi KL, et al. Integrated analysis of germline and somatic variants in ovarian cancer. Nat Commun. 2014 Jan 22;5:3156. PMID: 24448499
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