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_ Breast Cancer Scientists Zeroing In on Third Breast-Cancer Gene By Jane Farrell article Researchers have discovered more about a breast-cancer gene that could be as important as the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in determining a womanΓÇÖs likelihood of getting breast cancer. An international team of 17 researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, said that the gene, PALB 2, could be a candidate to be ΓÇ£BRCA 3.ΓÇ¥ They said that women with the gene have an average one in three chance of developing breast cancer by the age of 70. The findings were reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Although itΓÇÖs been known for a while that PALB2 was l
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