Breast cancer gene study talks attracts crowd

March

Nearly 100 women took part in a workshop Sunday in Upper Nyack about genetics and breast cancer. Half of them qualified to take part in a study of women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent that is looking for genetic mutations that cause women in that population to develop breast and ovarian cancer at a much higher rate than others.

NYU researchers are hoping to enroll 1,000 women in the study. Scientists have also enrolled women in White Plains.

For more information on the study and other locations where researchers will talk about their work, go to “The Breast and Ovarian Cancer Genetic Risk Study at NYU School of Medicine”:http://beyondbrca.med.nyu.edu/.

The center is still hoping to enroll more women in the study.

Click here to read the story in “The Joural News”:http://www.lohud.com/article/2009903140360.

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