Search Results: BRCA

• Health & Medicine

Hundreds more breast cancer patients should be tested for BRCA1 gene

Leading breast cancer experts are calling for women under 50 diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer to be offered testing for faults in the BRCA1 gene. Leading breast cancer experts are calling for women under 50 diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer to be offered testing for faults in the BRCA1 gene.

15 February 2012

• Health & Medicine

Women with faulty BRCA genes more likely to survive ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer patients who carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are significantly more likely to survive the disease than women without these faulty genes, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ovarian cancer patients who carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are significantly more likely to survive the disease than women without these faulty genes, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

24 January 2012

• Science & Technology

Scientists uncover protective role of BRCA2's 'protein partner'

Cancer Research UK scientists have shed new light on the vital role that a protein plays in protecting our DNA, reveals a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology today (Sunday). Cancer Research UK scientists have shed new light on the vital role that a protein plays in protecting our DNA, reveals a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology today (Sunday).

10 October 2010

Scientists discover first DNA region to alter breast cancer risk in women with BRCA1 faults

Cancer Research UK scientists have identified a DNA region which can increase or decrease the high breast cancer risk associated with the BRCA1 gene. Cancer Research UK scientists have identified a DNA region which can increase or decrease the high breast cancer risk associated with the BRCA1 gene.

19 September 2010

• Science & Technology

A step forward in understanding the BRCA2 ‘cancer gene’

Scientists have finally managed to purify the entire BRCA2 protein. Scientists have finally managed to purify the entire BRCA2 protein.

27 August 2010

• Health & Medicine
• Science & Technology

Understanding triple negative breast cancer – 53BP1 and the BRCA1 connection

10 May 2010

• Science & Technology

NCRI Cancer Conference 2009: Aurora, BRCA and unstable chromosomes

Professor Ashok Venkitaraman stepped in at the NCRI conference to deliver an enlightening talk on how chromosomes become unstable in cancer. Professor Ashok Venkitaraman stepped in at the NCRI conference to deliver an enlightening talk on how chromosomes become unstable in cancer.

9 October 2009

• Science & Technology

'BRCA1-free' birth isn’t a "slippery slope to designer babies"

30 January 2009

Prostate cancer deaths double in men with BRCA2

Men with prostate cancer caused by a faulty BRCA2 gene are more than twice as likely to die from the disease than those carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene - reveals a study published in the British Journal of Cancer* today (Tuesday). Men with prostate cancer caused by a faulty BRCA2 gene are more than twice as likely to die from the disease than those carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene - reveals a study published in the British Journal of Cancer* today (Tuesday).

24 June 2008

Cancer Research UK scientists help narrow the search for BRCA1 carriers

Cancer Research UK scientists have identified a new test which may help narrow the search for breast cancer patients likely to carry the faulty BRCA1 gene. Cancer Research UK scientists have identified a new test which may help narrow the search for breast cancer patients likely to carry the faulty BRCA1 gene.

9 August 2005

Scientists uncover how BRCA2 regulates DNA repair

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a `molecular switchї that controls an essential DNA repair process, a study published in Nature1 reveals today. Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a `molecular switchї that controls an essential DNA repair process, a study published in Nature1 reveals today.

30 March 2005