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Who are NICE?
NICE stands for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. They provide national guidance and advice to improve health and social care in England. In this story, they're mentioned because their guidelines, which focus on family history and specific gene mutations, are being questioned for potentially missing many women at higher genetic risk of breast cancer.
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