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 ...

Women who carry the BRCA1 gene mutation that dramatically increases their risk of breast and ovarian cancers are also at higher risk for a lethal form of uterine cancer, according to a study led by a ...

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. Likely not, according to the findings of a new ...

A study led by Harvard Medical School researchers shed new light on how even a single defective copy of the tumor-suppressor BRCA1 gene can increase patients’ risk of developing breast cancer.

ComingSoon can exclusively reveal the trailer for Love, Danielle. Love, Danielle is a new dramedy movie about a woman who tests positive for a BRCA1 gene mutation, which then puts her at high risk of ...

September 29, 2008 — Hormone therapy does not appear to elevate the risk for breast cancer in postmenopausal women with a BRCA1 mutation, researchers report. In fact, according to the study published ...

Katie and Lyndsay Cooper have the BRCA1 mutation and started screening early. They both discovered lumps in their breast, leading to their diagnoses. “It felt hard and literally it sounds made up it ...

Deescalated nab-paclitaxel plus carboplatin showed higher efficacy than nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine in early-stage TNBC patients. BRCA1/2 mutation carriers exhibited a more pronounced pathologic ...

When Angelina Jolie announced that she had a BRCA1 mutation in a New York Times op-ed, I didn’t know that one day I would be able to relate. Five years after her op-ed, I found out that I also had a ...

Second neoplasms in patients with hereditary retinoblastoma. Patient navigation as an effective way to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening among immigrants in the US: A ...