Inherited Malignancy
Screening the human genome for breast-cancer susceptibility factors has led to the identification of novel genetic variants, and ongoing studies and further technical progress will certainly lead to additional significant findings. But the challenge today is to dig out the clinical relevance of these findings and translate them into daily health care.
HANNOVER , GERMANY – Breast cancer is among the most life-threatening of malignancies, affecting about one in ten women in the Western world. Taking the family history of 100 healthy women, at least one affected first-degree relative can be found in up to 15 of them.