PET patron wins prestigious award
Baroness Mary Warnock, patron of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), which publishes BioNews, is to be awarded a major international prize for her work in bioethics...
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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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Single molecule found for breast cancer spread
Blocking a single molecule, the amino acid asparagine, can prevent breast cancer spread in mice, according to a new study...
Blood test for eight common cancers offers promise
Scientists have developed a single blood test to detect eight common cancer types and their location of origin within the body...
Screening all women over 30 for BRCA could prevent 64,000 cancers
The blanket screening of all women over 30 for genetic mutations which cause breast and, or ovarian cancer could prevent more cancers and be more cost effective than current approaches, according to a new study...
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.
BRCA gene does not affect survival in those treated for breast cancer
A new study has found that BRCA gene mutations do not affect the survival rates of breast cancer patients under 40...
BRCA screening could prevent 1000 cases of breast cancer a year
Researchers have introduced new criteria to screen for BRCA gene mutations that could prevent more than 10,000 cases of cancer and save more than 2000 lives in the next decade...
Twenty-seven genes that suppress cancer discovered
Scientists have found 27 new tumour suppressor genes...
Seventy-two new gene targets for breast cancer found
Two studies have discovered 72 new genetic variants associated with the risk of developing breast cancer...
Gene test could improve prediction of breast cancer risk
A new genetic test to accurately predict an individual's risk of developing breast cancer will soon be rolled out at two hospital clinics in Manchester...
Researchers crack how BRCA1 gene raises cancer risk
A major breakthrough in understanding how mutations in the BRCA1 gene raise cancer risk has been made by researchers in the USA...