SYDNEY (AFP) – Men from families where the women have high rates of breast cancer could face a heightened risk of prostate cancer, Australian researchers said yesterday.
A mutated gene as a factor in breast cancer can also expose men to a four times higher risk of prostate cancer, the scientists said, describing confirmation of the link as a world first.
The research was funded by Australia’s National Breast Cancer Foundation and carried out by researchers at kConFab, an Australian and New Zealand consortium for research into familial breast cancer.
The consortium has been investigating families with multiple cases of breast cancer for 10 years noticed that prostate cancer was also common in some of the families, said kConFab national manager Heather Throne.
Those families carried a mutation in the BRCA2 gene, which is passed from one generation to the next, and “this led us to explore whether these prostate cancers were caused by the genetic fault running in the family,” she said.
Source: Philippine Star
A mutated gene as a factor in breast cancer can also expose men to a four times higher risk of prostate cancer, the scientists said, describing confirmation of the link as a world first.
The research was funded by Australia’s National Breast Cancer Foundation and carried out by researchers at kConFab, an Australian and New Zealand consortium for research into familial breast cancer.
The consortium has been investigating families with multiple cases of breast cancer for 10 years noticed that prostate cancer was also common in some of the families, said kConFab national manager Heather Throne.
Those families carried a mutation in the BRCA2 gene, which is passed from one generation to the next, and “this led us to explore whether these prostate cancers were caused by the genetic fault running in the family,” she said.
Source: Philippine Star
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