BRCA1 (BReast CAncer Gene 1), a key gene that becomes faulty in some instances, leading to breast and ovarian cancer, plays an important role in the body's DNA repair mechanisms. BRCA1, once mutated, can cause cancer to develop. ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Error-prone DNA replication and repair may lead to mutations and cancer in individuals who inherit a mutant copy of the BRCA1 gene, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The discovery has potential ...
Nov 15, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center have discovered factors that may make breast and ovarian cancers associated with BRCA1/2 gene mutations more likely to recur.
Nov 10, 2022
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Regularly monitoring women with faulty BRCA genes that make them highly susceptible to ovarian cancer results in earlier stage diagnosis in those who want to defer preventive surgery, finds research published online in the ...
Nov 1, 2022
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A new study conducted at Tel Aviv University has determined that use of the Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) technique among women with increased risk of breast cancer (carriers of BRCA1/BRCA2 genes) can be very helpful ...
Oct 19, 2022
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Scientists from The University of Manchester have shown that testing for two gene families linked to a lifetime epithelial ovarian cancer risk of between 5% and 20% has a much higher than expected detection rate.
Oct 4, 2022
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The past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of genetic tests, including new instruments to inform patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer about the risk of recurrence and to guide their treatment.
Sep 27, 2022
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In a recent study published in JAMA Oncology, investigators from the University of Bergen, in collaboration with the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study in the U.S., reported epigenetic gene silencing in normal tissue to ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Just as bacteria, viruses and fungi develop strategies to outsmart antimicrobial medications, cancer cells can become resistant to chemotherapy. And among tumors, those associated with triple negative breast cancer and ovarian ...
Pathogenic variants in BRCA1/2 genes are associated with an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer in adults, and variants in mismatch repair (MMR) genes increase the risk of gastrointestinal and other cancers. Until ...
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