Breast Cancer Genes Linked to Prostate Health

As Hopkins continues his monologue of self wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
It’s fairly common knowledge in the breast cancer community that women with an abnormality in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are predisposed towards the disease and have a greater likelihood of developing breast cancer at a young age (before menopause). For instance, while it is approximated that 13.2 percent of the general population will develop breast cancer, 36 - 85% of women with a mutation to either their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes will get the disease. (FYI, those genes were named quite

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