1. “Inherited breast cancer is a common genetic disease: 5% of a disease affecting one in ten women over the life span means that roughly 1 in 200 women will develop breast cancer by reason of inherited susceptibility. Therefore, as an inherited trait, breast cancer is one of the most common genetic diseases in the industrialized world.” M.C. King. “Breast Cancer genes: How Many, Where and Who Are they?” Nature Genetics, 2 (1992), pp. 89–90.
2. When coming to the issue of “eugenical applications,” she condeded: “Unfortunately there seems to be little hope from the eugenic standpoint of eradication, for usually cancer does not develop in the patient until his children are mature.... It is different with tumors that develop in early childhood such as retinal glioma, which snatch a child from existence at an early age, or plunge him into a world of darkness for a life time. There eugenics has a definite role, and those who have retinal glioma and survived the operation should not pass on the defect to their children....” M.T. Macklin. “The Hereditary Factor in Human Neoplasms,” The Quarterly Review of Biology, VII (1932), pp. 255–281.
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