• 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

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The Pill, pregnancy and cancer – making sense of the headlines

26 October 2011

• Science & Technology

Shutting down cells' 'back-up generator' to beat kidney cancer

17 August 2011

• Science & Technology

New ovarian cancer gene is a significant step forward

7 August 2011

Scientists unlock further prostate cancer secrets

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have taken a further step to identifying men at a greater risk of prostate cancer with the discovery of seven new variants in the human genome that increase the chances of developing the disease. Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have taken a further step to identifying men at a greater risk of prostate cancer with the discovery of seven new variants in the human genome that increase the chances of developing the disease.

10 July 2011

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Gene study backs promise of breast cancer drugs to treat hereditary prostate cancer

How prostate cancer develops in men who have an altered 'breast cancer gene' is the same route by which breast cancer develops in women with the same mutation How prostate cancer develops in men who have an altered 'breast cancer gene' is the same route by which breast cancer develops in women with the same mutation

24 June 2010

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• Health & Medicine

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

10 May 2010

• Science & Technology

Scientists discover five new genetic sites that increase breast cancer risk

Scientists have found five new regions of the genome that increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by between six and 16 per cent, according to a study in Nature Genetics today (Sunday)*. Scientists have found five new regions of the genome that increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by between six and 16 per cent, according to a study in Nature Genetics today (Sunday)*.

9 May 2010

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Scientists inch closer to personal risk prediction – for some

1 February 2010

• Science & Technology

Scientists prove leukaemia can pass from mother to child - but it's extremely rare

13 October 2009

• Science & Technology

Scientists in major prostate cancer gene discovery

SCIENTISTS have discovered nine new sites in the human genome that have variants that can increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer by three fold. Their findings are published in two papers in Nature Genetics* today (Sunday). SCIENTISTS have discovered nine new sites in the human genome that have variants that can increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer by three fold. Their findings are published in two papers in Nature Genetics* today (Sunday).

20 September 2009