New Advancements in Breast Cancer Research

McGill breast-cancer breakthrough

As we discuss gene mutations in lecture and how they can effect our lives, news comes out of McGill University in Montreal that scientists have found a gene that is defective in 2 out of 5 breast cancer patients. Breakthroughs like this are exciting because it means we are one step closer to curing this disease. According to the American Cancer Society it is estimated that over 41,000 people died of breast cancer in the United States in 2006 and that more than 200,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the U.S. in 2006. If this research proves to be true in humans and 80,000 of those new cases do have the defective gene, thousands of lives can be given a new lease on life.