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...
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...
Machine learning has been used to develop a promising screening test for ovarian cancer, a team of US-based researchers has said...
A major breakthrough in understanding how mutations in the BRCA1 gene raise cancer risk has been made by researchers in the USA...
US researchers have developed a new blood test to detect cancer-related DNA alterations before patients experience symptoms...
High doses of vitamin C may help fight certain leukaemias by boosting the activity of a particular gene, suggests a new study...
by Dr Lea Goetz
A study of almost 10,000 women carrying BRCA mutations has revealed the best estimate yet of their risk in developing breast and ovarian cancer...
A drug treatment for ovarian cancer has shown success against inherited breast cancer...
by Anthony Ryb
US spin-off legal drama 'The Good Fight' delivers a brief storyline when representing an ovarian cancer survivor whose only chance of genetic connection to a child is by gaining back custody of her previously donated eggs.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first genetic test to estimate an individual's risk of disease that can be sold directly to consumers...
New genes indicating risk of ovarian and brain cancer have been identified using genome-wide association studies...
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