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Race Toward a Cure

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Young scholars come to explain how the presence of a mutation in the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 gene, along with another acquired sometime after birth, affect the chances developing breast cancer.

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breast cancer, cancer

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6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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1 hr
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