Women with close male relatives with prostate cancer are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, a new study confirms.
These findings, from the large Women’s Health Initiative, reinforce the results of a 1994 study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the authors write.
“This is not the first study to examine this relationship, but it is one of the larger to date, if not the largest study,” said lead author Jennifer L. Beebe-Dimmer of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
Cancer is a disease of the DNA, she said, and family clustering indicates that breast and prostate cancers may have genes in common,
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