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Scientists reach breast cancer "milestone"

Scientists have completed the largest-ever genetic survey of all the different forms of breast cancer. It's enabled them to identify nearly all the genes that - if mutated - can lead to tumours. Professor Sir Mike Stratton is the director the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which carried out the research.

(Photo: A nurse performs a mammography. Credit: MYCHELE DANIAU/AFP/Getty Images)

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