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Prescribing existing drugs to healthy women who carry a gene that makes them more likely to develop breast cancer could prevent them from developing the disease, a breakthrough University of Cambridge study suggests.

Researchers say pregnancy could provide a "double whammy" for breast cancer as it induces a rapid expansion of breast cells for breastfeeding.

Risk for a recurrence of breast cancer in women can now be identified through genetic and other factors.

Co-opting the normal synthetic machinery of the body. >> thats right, the power of asking for help. >> reporter: other research might help the tiniest among us. while nursing her infant daughter five years ago. >> i started trying to learn like what is in this breast milk. >> whitehead envisioned using mrna to program breast cells to produce specific proteins. so it would be a way of non- invasively delivering therapeutics to an infant. it is amazing technology. >> reporter: technology that coul...

Breast cells are found to invite immune system reinforcements after pregnancy to inhibit tumors formation.

The genetic codes of 21 breast cancers. for the first time scientists have been able to catalog the dna mutations that build up in breast cells over time and identify patterns that increase the growth of tumors. the hope is the research will allow breast cancer to be detected earlier and treated more effectively in future. for more information on this and other health stories, you can check out the health page at msnbc.com. the heat go stone cold, the spurs clobber the clippers, unbelievable j...

>> from all ive read here, its a huge population that was included in this and 30 years -- everybody who reviewed this seems to think its straight up. >> i think its a very good study. not only does it show an effect on breast cancer but maybe ovarian and colon cancer. probably the result is because of the inhibition of inflammatory reaction in the cancer. breast cancer cells are particularly more -- have a much more higher inflammatory component than normal breast cells so they think it inhibit...