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Jump to full article: The Border Mail (au), 2007-12-04
Intro: SMOKING more than doubles the risk of developing breast cancer among women with a strong family history of the disease, a study of Australians has revealed.
The major international review is the first to show a connection between the disease and tobacco in women with the highest risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 or BRCA2.
About half of women with faulty versions of these genes will develop cancer by the age of 70. . . .
The review, published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, analysed data collected from 780 women involved in large breast cancer trials, including more than 300 from the Melbourne-based Australian Breast Cancer Family study.
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