HEALTH Minister Greg Hunt yesterday announced $3 million in funding for a project to help women identify whether they are at risk of developing ovarian cancer.
The four-year TRACEBACK project will identify and then offer testing to women at risk of having the BRCA 1 and 2 genes, in an effort to reduce the incidence of ovarian and breast cancers caused by gene mutations which are estimated to be responsible for at least 15% of ovarian cancer cases.
The project will be conducted jointly by Ovarian Cancer Australia and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, with expectations it will prevent more than 2,000 incidences of cancer.
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