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 ...

People inherit two copies of each gene—one from each parent—an evolutionary fail-safe to ensure survival even when one of them doesn't function. For cancer-suppressor genes like BRCA1 ...

Can a "mastectomy moon" help prepare you for surgery? A cancer survivor explains how a pre-surgery trip helped her find peace.

As a leading authority on DNA repair contests findings that he falsified data about a key breast cancer gene, other researchers in the field ... to the antibody assay he developed to test how BRCA1 ...

1990 -- Mary-Claire King, MD, localized the BRCA1 gene for inherited susceptibility to breast cancer to a specific site on chromosome 17. 1994 -- Brian Henderson, MD, showed that exercise can ...

A woman who discovered she had breast cancer after a chance reading of a newspaper article is warning others with Jewish heritage of the increased risk. | ITV News Central ...

Susan Domchek, MD, FASCO, has spent her entire career striving to stay one step ahead of cancer.In recognition of her ...

Opens in a new tab or window Patients with BRCA1/2-associated breast cancer ... relative and absolute risks using a novel linkage of genetic testing data to population-scale National Disease ...