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Tue 09 Sep 2009Don't keep cancer in the family
YOUR LIFESTYLE:TODAY, knowing that breast, ovarian or colon cancer runs in a family is a key piece of medical information. It can help identify high-risk individuals within that family so they can be offered screening for the early stages, or even have tissue removed before a tumour can arise, writes CLAIRE O’CONNELL
But nearly 50 years ago, the mere notion that cancer risk could be hereditary was considered fringe. “It was very different back then,” recalls medical oncologist Prof Henry Lynch, who visits Dublin this weekend for a major conference.
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