1 in 4 Indian breast cancer patients carry inherited genetic risk variants, outside known genes: study

One in four Indian breast cancer patients carries an inherited genetic variant linked to cancer risk, with the majority of these variants occurring outside the well-known BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, a new study has found, a press release said.

Findings of the study, conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) and Karkinos Healthcare, along with Kumaran Hospital, Chennai, and the Chennai Breast Centre, were published in the journal BMC Cancer