Only a fraction of BRCA1 mutations cause cancer
Hundreds of inherited mutations to BRCA1, a high-risk susceptibility gene for breast and ovarian cancer, have been shown to be harmless...
Cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary (one of a pair of female reproductive glands in which the ova, or eggs, are formed).
Hundreds of inherited mutations to BRCA1, a high-risk susceptibility gene for breast and ovarian cancer, have been shown to be harmless...
A genetic predisposition to endometriosis may also increase a woman's risk of developing certain types of ovarian cancer, new findings suggest...
Cells in cervical smear test samples could be used as an indicator for breast and ovarian cancer, and show promise as tools for monitoring cancer risk...
Mutations in the FANCI gene have been linked to risks of ovarian cancer for the first time...
Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, invited the audience of the event to consider where assisted reproductive technologies stood 55 years ago...
by Jen Willows
A clinical trial combining two cancer therapies has shown promising results in patients with low grade serous ovarian cancer...
by Jen Willows
Offering healthy people genetic screening could provide clinically important information in over 15 percent of cases...
BRCA2 mutations may be implicated in infertility, as well as increasing cancer risk, according to new research...
by Professor Anneke Lucassen and 1 others
Direct-to-consumer genomic testing is a thriving market – for example by June 2020, 23andMe had sold over a quarter of a million testing kits in the UK...
by Emma Bunting
New research suggests mutations in multiple DNA repair genes can determine how well ovarian cancer patients will respond to the PARP inhibitor, rucaparib...