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Risks of breast cancer higher for twins
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WOMEN who have an identical twin sister with breast cancer are
four times more likely than average to develop the disease
themselves, scientists claimed yesterday.
The increased risk is much higher than scientists had previously
suspected, even taking account of the fact identical twins share the
same genes.
Researchers at the University of Southern California studied 2,562
pairs of identical and non-identical twins with either one or two
cases of breast cancer. Their rates of the disease were compared with
the general population.
Previous work had shown that before the menopause, having an ...
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