BRCA mutations are inextricably linked with breasts, but they can also lead to cancer in the pancreas, prostate, and maybe ...

Key considerations in setting up BRCA testing Presented at: APJ Oncology User Meeting: Advances in Molecular Testing - Women's Cancer 1 ...

Thirty years after the sequencing of the BRCA1 cancer-associated gene, access to genetic tests and awareness about its risks ...

The tests can be ordered online and completed at home, by taking a sample of saliva and sending it off to a laboratory. Everyone carries BRCA genes, which repair DNA damage and usually help to ...

A high magnification image of ovarian clear cell carcinoma. Image credit: Copyright © 2011 Michael Bonert. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Scientists have developed a new ...

The greatest benefit or under circumstances where an individual in a family tests positive for a mutation in BRCA 1 or 2 that has had cancer themselves, then we know what that means for the rest ...

She is among thousands of people who have been tested for the faulty BRCA gene over the past 30 years ... Lisa, from Dunfermline, took the genetic test in 2019 after her father and aunt were ...

Patients with high-risk, BRCA-positive breast cancer who received olaparib (Lynparza) after standard treatment continued to have better survival outcomes than those who received placebo after a median ...

And in laboratory tests in rats and in organoids – three-dimensional mini-tumours grown in the lab – POLQ inhibitors were able to shrink BRCA-mutant cancers that had stopped responding to PARP ...

“It’s a branding problem,” Colin Pritchard, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology ... other researchers are working to rebrand BRCA and the syndrome associated with it so that ...