WASHINGTON: Researchers have unveiled new data that they said would help better assess breast or ovarian cancer risks in women, identifying the advantages of early detection and lifelong monitoring.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), involved nearly 10,000 women with the most common mutations -- 6,036 with BRCA1 and 3,820 with BRCA2.

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