ancer Society Surveillance Research shows that a
             women in her twenties has a 1 in 2,500 chance of developing Breast Cancer
             in the next 10 years, where a woman in her fifties has a 1 in 39 chance of
             It is a fact that if there is a family history of Breast Cancer, the
             risk of the offspring developing Breast Cancer increases because of the
             inheritance of the genes. These genes appear in various family members
             over generations. 5%-10% of Breast Cancer is believed to be inherited.
             There are several known Breast Cancer genes which geneticists have now
             located. BRCA-1 was isolated in 1994, and is thought to be one of the
             genes responsible for causing Breast Cancer. BRCA-2 is less common, but
             together the two genes are accounted for approximately 40%-50% if the
             Commercial screening tests were developed when the two Breast Cancer-
             causing genes were isolated. Commercial screening tests include
             mammography which is an x-ray picture of the breast. It can detect tumors
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