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— and half that number, 13,000, will
die of the disease each year.
Dale Mintz, national director of
health education for Hadassah, which
has increasingly focused its attention
on women's health issues, was interest-
ed in news of the study, but ques-
tioned the source of the findings.
"I'd rather see large studies done by
a university or the National Cancer
Institute, because Myriad has a self-
interest, and I'd rather see them done
where they are pure science," she said.
It costs an individual, or her insur-
ance company, $2,400 for Myriad to
do a full sequencing of the genes
BRCA1 and BRCA2.
A search for mutations at the three
points where they are most often,
found among Ashkenazi Jews costs
$450, Frank said.
Frank acknowledged "we do have
self-interest," which is why he said his
company cooperated with medical
institutions.
`Anybody else doing this analysis
using our methods would come up
with exactly the same conclusions," he
said.
Mintz of Hadassah also expressed
concern about potential discrimina-
tion by insurance companies against
women who have found certain genet-
ic mutations.
Frank said in the two years since
Myriad began offering the breast can-

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cer genetic testing, "I don't think
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But Mintz said there was reason for
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tested and later become victims of the
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ovaries" because the disease is consid-
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It has not happened but the fear
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