According to a study in the May 13 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), women whose sisters were diagnosed with breast cancer face an increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives, regardless of their sister's age at diagnosis.
Read more about the "sisterhood" of breast cancer:
Familial Breast Cancer Risk Lasts a Lifetime for Sisters
http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/news-251826-31.html
Sisters with Breast Cancer
http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/5102/8121/breast-cancer
Breast Cancer: The Sister Study - Woman by Woman, Sister by Sister
http://www.sisterstudy.org/English/index1.htm
Best of health,
MG
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