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It’s Not Just Mom and Grandma: Heightened Breast Cancer Risk Can Come from Dad’s Side, Too

It’s Not Just Mom and Grandma: Heightened Breast Cancer Risk Can Come from Dad’s Side, Too



For certain cancers that disproportionally or exclusively affect women, like breast and ovarian cancer, there is a bias to focus on the mother’s side of the family tree in health conversations. And for many, especially previvors – people living at risk of a particular disease but not yet diagnosed – that seemed like enough. But as research has evolved and our understanding of inherited risk has deepened, it has become clearer that genetic risk on our dad’s side of the family can also increase an individual’s breast cancer risk.

It’s Not Just Mom and Grandma: Heightened Breast Cancer Risk Can Come from Dad’s Side, Too

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