DNA Repair Patterns May Predict Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

Genetic variations in DNA repair patterns may increase risk of pancreatic cancer by as much as threefold or decrease it by as much as 77 percent, depending on the genes involved, according to a report published in the January 15, 2009, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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Filed under: Cancer on January 16th, 2009