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Gene Flaws Common in African Americans with Breast Cancer

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CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers have found that gene flaws that raise the risk of breast cancer in black women may be behind more cases of the disease in black woman than previously thought. A study of 250 African American breast cancer patients from Chicago found that about one-fifth of them had one of these faulty genes. A mutation in one of the BRCA genes recently led actress Angelina Jolie to...


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