Women with breast cancer suffer a high constant risk of a cancer in the opposite breast. A new hypothesis to explain this observation is that a woman's risk of breast cancer starts from a genetically determined age.
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Easton, D. Breast cancer—not just whether but when?. Nat Genet 26, 390–391 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/82495
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