A clustered family history of breast, ovarian, and colon cancers appropriately triggered germline testing, with BRCA1 mutation status informing individualized risk stratification and counseling.

Germline BRCA mutations have an adverse impact on both progression-free and overall survival in patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative metastatic ...

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Women with genetic mutations that increase their risk of ovarian cancer have fewer years than physicians thought to make the difficult choice of having their ovaries ...

BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations increase the risk of hereditary breast cancer. Here's what you should know about the causes, ...

A Long Island nurse is sharing a message of action in the face of a frightening genetic finding. She learned she was positive for the BRCA mutation, which increases the risk of cancers, but she took ...

Patients with BRCA-mutant breast cancer had a significantly higher risk of breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), a large cohort study showed. BRCA1/2 mutations conferred ...

Mutations in the BRCA1 gene that are either inherited (germline) or acquired (somatic) might not be key to the initiation of prostate cancer, as previously thought, suggests the first study of its ...

VANESSA THANK YOU. AND NOW TO THE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO IS NOT ONLY A BREAST CANCER ADVOCATE, SHE’S AN AUTHOR AND NOW A MOVIE PRODUCER. HER FIRST FULL LENGTH FILM TACKLES THE DECISIONS A WOMAN WITH A ...

Gila Pfeffer is a humor writer who splits her time between NYC and London. The following is an adapted excerpt from her memoir, "Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences." ...

The Israeli Basket of Health Services now includes preimplantation genetic testing and in vitro fertilization (PGT-IVF) for individuals carrying three specific genetic markers.