Podcast Review: Ingenious
The jargon-free BBC4 genetics podcast series, Ingenious, exposes the history and future of research into a selection of genes...
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Breast cancer
A cancer that forms in tissues of the breast. Breast cancers occur in both women and men, although male breast cancer is rare.
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Book Review: The Mother Project – Making it to parenthood the (very) long way round
I've followed Sophie Beresiner's award-winning column in the Times, The Mother Project, throughout my PhD, with her pieces providing an intended mother's perspective of surrogacy...
No increased breast cancer risk from fertility drugs
Fertility drugs do not increase the risk of developing breast cancer, a UK study has shown...
Breast cancer drug reduces the risk of recurrence by 42 percent
A targeted breast cancer treatment reduces the risk of BRCA-related cancer returning or spreading after chemotherapy...
PARP inhibitor is most effective in ovarian cancer patients with DNA repair mutations
New research suggests mutations in multiple DNA repair genes can determine how well ovarian cancer patients will respond to the PARP inhibitor, rucaparib...
Olaparib extends life of ovarian cancer patients with BRCA1/2
Cancer treatment olaparib has been shown to extend the life of relapsed ovarian cancer patients with mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2, by nearly 13 months, when used as a maintenance therapy...
BRCA-associated breast cancer risk may be influenced by the woman's genome
Women with high risk single-gene variants in the BRCA gene may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than previously reported...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
'Single gene' condition risk influenced by genetic background
Disease risk, from single-gene variants, is influenced by the rest of the genome...
Chemotherapy infertility risk more likely discussed with female patients
Clinicians are more likely to discuss reproductive risks associated with chemotherapy with female patients than with male patients, according to a new study of American patients...
Saving lives with early breast and ovarian cancer screening
Screening all women over 30 for the most common breast and ovarian cancer causing mutations could prevent millions of cancer deaths worldwide, according to a new study...