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lubecki161 | 12:25 Wed 04th Jun 2008 | Health & Fitness
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If someone in your family has breast cancer what are the chances that someone else will get it??
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Not an easy question to answer in an email lubecki161, but there is a very good website that should help you:

www.genome.gov/10000507

Just looked on Chatterbank and it seems most people have found it easy to explain in an email.
apart from my link, because apparently if you have never been married you are more likely to get it ?????
It depends what sort of breast cancer it is. With some there is a definite genetic link, others not. Cancerbacup or cancer research sites both excellent.
There are 2 well known breast cancer related genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Mutations in these tend to give you a high probability of developing breast, ovarian or bowel cancer 85%

There is an increased incidence of this in people with Ashkenazi Jewish background.

But there is a certain risk without a genetic predisposition too.


You can be tested for this see here

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp? page=5689#who

There is particular interest if someone in your familly was very young and had it or had ovarian cancer or if it was a man that had it.

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