Multiple Choice
Regarding breast cancer, it is true that:
A) Prophylactic mastectomy does not give women with BRAC1 or BRAC2 genes any extra years of life.
B) No lab in the country allows a woman to pay and then send in a blood sample to get blood tested for BRAC1.
C) The BRAC2 gene solely causes breast cancer and is not implicated in any other kinds of cancers.
D) Mark Skolnick of the University of Utah proved that one form of breast cancer is inherited, and a team lead by Mary Claire King discovered BRAC1, the first gene for breast cancer.
E) In the 1960's, women diagnosed with breast cancer favored getting radical mastectomies over less radical surgeries until it was proven that lumpectomies gave them just as much benefit as radical mastectomies.
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