Researchers said a genetic risk score can help predict invasive breast cancer risks for women after abnormal cells have been found in their breast tissue. File Photo by David Tulis/UPI | License Photo
A genetic risk score can help predict which women will develop invasive breast cancer after abnormal cells have been found in their breast tissue, researchers said.
Women who scored high on the genetic blood test were twice as likely to develop breast cancer after doctors found abnormal cells, researchers report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
These women had been diagnosed with in-situ carcinoma, a term for abnormal cells found in the breast ducts and breast lobules, the milk-producing glands in breasts.
Women with ductal carcinoma in situ were twice as likely to develop cancer in their other breast if they scored high on the genetic blood test, results showed.
