Twelve women showed up on Tuesday at BRCA Chat Montreal — a group that Karen Malkin Lazarovitz helped launched to offer support and information to women who have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation. Women ...
A new database and mobile app called BRCA Exchange is making it easier for experts to share information about cancer-related gene mutations. Summary Clinical genetics experts from MSK and other ...
An international group led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan has ...
Germline BRCA mutations have an adverse impact on both progression-free and overall survival in patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative metastatic ...
After a breast-cancer diagnosis and a separate scare, my mom tested for the BRCA2 gene mutation. Knowing it could be hereditary, I decided to get tested at 23 to see if I also carried the mutation. My ...
A clinician-led approach boosts genetic testing among relatives of people with newly detected pathogenic variants — and could help close a gap in hereditary cancer prevention.
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New research indicates that a long-maligned menopausal treatment is safer than previously thought, showing that it doesn’t increase breast cancer risk in women with inherited mutations in the BRCA1 or ...
The authors acknowledged that longer follow-up (up to 20 years) may be required to detect a potential survival benefit, ...