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To the Editor: Why the preoccupation in discussions of mammography with one-age-suits-all (April 17 issue)? ¹ For decades it has been known that women with a positive family history are at increased risk for breast cancer, especially at an early age. Today we know that 5 to 10 percent of women with breast cancer have an inherited mutation of a breast-cancer-susceptibility gene,² that about 80 percent of such women have a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2,³ that 85 percent of these women will get breast cancer in their lifetimes,⁴ and that 50 percent of these cancers will be diagnosed by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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