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Today, Cancer Research UK-funded scientists led by Professor Nazneen Rahman at The Institute of Cancer Research announced a major step…

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.

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

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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)*.

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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).